THE POWER OF FORGIVNESS 9-19-25 VIDEO forgive her sons killer
There is great power and freedom in forgiving those who have hurt you. The Greek word most often translated for forgiveness is the word APHIEMI, meaning to send forth or way to let go from our attention. To let go to God. He will get rid of it. Jesus cast out our sins into the sea of forgetfulness. When God forgives He chooses never to remember our sins again. When God forgave it was Jonah was angry about it. We’re forgiven And carry forgiveness wherever we go.
Mic 7:18 Where is the god who can compare with you — wiping the slate clean of guilt, Turning a blind eye, a deaf ear, to the past sins of your purged and precious people? You don’t nurse your anger and don’t stay angry long, for mercy is your specialty. That’s what you love most.
19 And compassion is on its way to us. You’ll stamp out our wrongdoing. You’ll sink our sins to the bottom of the ocean. MSG
Ps 130:3 If you, God, kept records on wrongdoings, who would stand a chance?
4 As it turns out, forgiveness is your habit, and that’s why you’re worshiped. MSG
Ps 103:12 And as far as sunrise is from sunset, he has separated us from our sins.
13 As parents feel for their children, God feels for those who fear him. MSG
Matt 9:2 They were hardly out of the boat when some men carried a paraplegic on a stretcher and set him down in front of them. Jesus, impressed by their bold belief, said to the paraplegic, “Cheer up, son. I forgive your sins.”
3 Some religion scholars whispered, “Why, that’s blasphemy!”
4 Jesus knew what they were thinking, and said, “Why this gossipy whispering?
5 Which do you think is simpler: to say, ‘I forgive your sins,’ or, ‘Get up and walk’?
6 Well, just so it’s clear that I’m the Son of Man and authorized to do either, or both. . . .” At this he turned to the paraplegic and said, “Get up. Take your bed and go home.”
7 And the man did it.
8 The crowd was awestruck, amazed and pleased that God had authorized Jesus to work among them this way. MSG
LU 7:44 He then turned to the woman and said to Simon, “While you are both equally debt free and neither of you are under any obligation, look at her, consider how much affection and love she bestows on me! When I arrived at your house, no water was given me for my feet; but this lady washed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair.
45 You didn’t greet me with a kiss, but since I arrived, she hasn’t stopped kissing my feet with affection!
46 You did not even anoint my head with oil, but she anointed my feet with fragrant ointment!
47 Do you now see what grace means? However much out of sync with her blueprint she was and however many her distortions were, she had been perfectly freed of all! To be forgiven means that whatever your sins were, they no longer define you! They were and never can be who you really are! She arrived here earlier, purposefully prepared with an alabaster flask of very expensive perfume, to show how extravagantly
much she loved me! He who does not understand the full extent of forgiveness, is like the man who shows only polite appreciation.
48 He then assured her, “You are completely forgiven!”
49 This had everyone reclining at the table muttering again! “Who does this guy think he is! How dare he forgive someone like that!”
50 Jesus said to the woman, “Your conviction of the truth, has perfectly realized your salvation! Bon Voyage! Journey on in this place of seamless union! MIRROR
Luke 24:44 Then he said, “Everything I told you while I was with you comes to this: All the things written about me in the Law of Moses, in the Prophets, and in the Psalms have to be fulfilled.”
45 He went on to open their understanding of the Word of God, showing them how to read their Bibles this way.
46 He said, “You can see now how it is written that the Messiah suffers, rises from the dead on the third day,
47 and then a total life-change through the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed in his name to all nations — starting from here, from Jerusalem!
48 You’re the first to hear and see it. You’re the witnesses.
49 What comes next is very important: I am sending what my Father promised to you, so stay here in the city until he arrives, until you’re equipped with power from on high.”
50 He then led them out of the city over to Bethany. Raising his hands he blessed them,
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JN 20:22 Having said this he breathed an effusion of Spirit upon them and said, “Take Holy Spirit as your Companion.”
23 “If you forgive someone’s sins, they are gone and forgotten. If you don’t let go, then you are stuck with them.” MIRROR
Matt 12:31 “There’s nothing done or said that can’t be forgiven. But if you deliberately persist in your slanders against God’s Spirit, you are repudiating the very One who forgives.
32 If you reject the Son of Man out of some misunderstanding, the Holy Spirit can forgive you, but when you reject the Holy Spirit, you’re sawing off the branch on which you’re sitting, severing by your own perversity all connection with the One who forgives. MSG
Matt 6:14 “In prayer there is a connection between what God does and what you do. You can’t get forgiveness from God, for instance, without also forgiving others.
15 If you refuse to do your part, you cut yourself off from God’s part. MSG
2 COR 2:7 It is due time now to offer him your forgiveness and closeness lest he be completely swamped with regret.
8 I implore you to make your love for him very clear. MIRROR
EPH 4:32 Be inspired by kindness and compassion; your forgiving one another when you might feel irritated and frustrated demonstrates the way God graciously treated us in Christ. MIRROR
Mark 11:25 And when you assume the posture of prayer, remember that it’s not all asking. If you have anything against someone, forgive — only then will your heavenly Father be inclined to also wipe your slate clean of sins.” MSG
LU 11:4 Oh, that your forgiveness of our sins may be fully realized! So, everyone indebted to us may also know that we have released them from their obligations to us! Father, you know us inside-out! Free us thoroughly from any hidden alliance with the old system of performance-based living! MIRROR
Col 2:13 When you were stuck in your old sin-dead life, you were incapable of responding to God. God brought you alive — right along with Christ! Think of it! All sins forgiven,
Jonah 3:9 Who knows? Maybe God will turn around and change his mind about us, quit being angry with us and let us live!”
10 God saw what they had done, that they had turned away from their evil lives. He did change his mind about them. What he said he would do to them he didn’t do. MSG
Jonah 4:2 He yelled at God, “God! I knew it — when I was back home, I knew this was going to happen! That’s why I ran off to Tarshish! I knew you were sheer grace and mercy, not easily angered, rich in love, and ready at the drop of a hat to turn your plans of punishment into a program of forgiveness!
3 “So, God, if you won’t kill them, kill me! I’m better off dead!”
4 God said, “What do you have to be angry about?” MSG
Heb 2:17 That’s why he had to enter into every detail of human life. Then, when he came before God as high priest to get rid of the people’s sins,
18 he would have already experienced it all himself — all the pain, all the testing — and would be able to help where help was needed.
Jn 1:29 The very next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and yelled out,
30 “Here he is, God’s Passover Lamb! He forgives the sins of the world! This is the man I’ve been talking about, ‘the One who comes after me but is really ahead of me.’
Rev 13:8 And all the inhabitants of the earth will fall down in adoration and pay him homage, everyone whose name has not been recorded in the Book of Life of the Lamb that was slain [in sacrifice] from the foundation of the world. AMP
Rom 5:20 All that passing laws against sin did was produce more lawbreakers. But sin didn’t, and doesn’t, have a chance in competition with the aggressive forgiveness we call grace. When it’s sin versus grace, grace wins hands down.
21 All sin can do is threaten us with death, and that’s the end of it. Grace, because God is putting everything together again through the Messiah, invites us into life — a life that goes on and on and on, world without end. MSG
ROM 6:6 We perceive that our old lifestyle was co-crucified together with him; this concludes that the vehicle that accommodated sin in us, was scrapped and rendered entirely useless. Our slavery to sin has come to an end.
7 If nothing else stops you from doing something wrong, death certainly does.
8 Faith sees us joined in his death and alive with him in his resurrection.
9 It is plain for all to see that death lost its dominion over Christ in his resurrection; he need not ever die again to prove a further point.
10 His appointment with death was once-off. As far as sin is concerned, he is dead. The reason for his death was to take away the sin of the world; his life now exhibits our union with the life of God. MIRROR
2 COR 5:19 Our ministry declares that Jesus did not act independently of his Father. God was present in Christ when he reconciled the total cosmos to himself. Deity and humanity embraced in him; the fallen state of mankind was deleted; their trespasses would no longer count against them! He now announces his friendship with every individual from within us!
20 The voice God has in Christ he now has in us; we are God’s ambassadors. Our lives exhibit the urgency of God to persuade everyone to realize the reconciliation of their redeemed identity. MIRROR
Gal 6:1 Live creatively, friends. If someone falls into sin, forgivingly restore him, saving your critical comments for yourself. You might be needing forgiveness before the day’s out.
2 Stoop down and reach out to those who are oppressed. Share their burdens, and so complete Christ’s law.
3 If you think you are too good for that, you are badly deceived.MSG
Acts 26:17 “‘I’m sending you off
18 to open the eyes of the outsiders so they can see the difference between dark and light, and choose light, see the difference between Satan and God, and choose God. I’m sending you off to present my offer of sins forgiven, and a place in the family, inviting them into the company of those who begin real living by believing in me.’