1. Check cashing policy: To err is human To forgive, $10
1 Peter 1:13-19
Check cashing policy:
To err is human
To forgive, $10

2. Why Should We Forgive? Essential to Entering Heaven –
Matthew 6:14,15
“Score Keeping” Requires too much of our time-
Matthew 18:21,22
Holding Grudge prolongs your own suffering
Leviticus 19:18
Unforgiving attitude:
Makes you less attractive to others
Gives others control over you

3. Can You Forgive & Forget?
Forget Our Own Faults
Proverbs 21:2
God says we can
Ephesians 4:32
Need a little Help Forgiving?
God Commands it
Matthew 6:14,15
Romans 12:17-21
Trust God
1 John 5:3

4. Can You Forgive & Forget?
Need a little Help Forgiving?
Forgiving Shows Strength of Character
Avoids appearance of using double standard: One for You, another for others
Your Faults no Different than Others
Romans 3:23
Consistent with Practice of Love
John 14:15,21, 23,24
1 John 2:4; 4:7-11; 5:2,3

5. Do You Forgive? Do you rejoice at another’s misfortunes?
Do you avoid the “forgiven?”
Are you friendly & kind toward the forgiven?
1 Peter 3:8,9
Criteria for Forgiving
Ephesians 4:32
Colossians 3:12,13

6. How has Christ Forgiven Us?
Hebrews 8:8-12
“Their sins & their lawless deeds I will remember no more!”
IF we would be forgiven (i.e. sins remembered against us no more); we must Forgive (i.e. sins remembered against them no more!).