God’s Big Promises – 5. You Can Forgive
God’s Answer to Resentment
Ephesians 4: 29 – 32 To hate is to live in the past. Hatred is the most damaging emotion, for it gives the person you hate a double victory—once in the past, once in the present. No time to hate? Not if you have learned how to forgive. Forgiving does not mean whitewashing the past, but it does mean refusing to live there. Forgiveness breaks the chain of bitterness and the desire for revenge. As costly as it is to forgive, unforgiveness costs far more. We’re in a s