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If you can sincerely pray “Father, set them free” for those who have hurt you, then you’ve truly forgiven them.
What Total Forgiveness Is Not
- Approval of what they did
- Excusing what they did
- Justifying what they did
- Pardoning what they did
- Reconciliation
- Denying what they did
- Blindness to what happened
- Forgetting
- Refusing to take wrong seriously
- Pretending we are not hurt
What Total Forgiveness Is
- Being aware of what someone did and still forgiving
- Choosing to keep no record of wrongs
- Refusing to punish – 1 John 4:18
- Not telling what they did
- Be merciful
- Be gracious
- It’s an inner condition
- It’s the absence of bitterness
- Forgiving God
- Forgiving ourselves
How Do I Know I Have Forgiven?
- Genesis 37:6-8; 42-43; 45:1-4
- Keep it to yourself
- Don’t let people be afraid to approach you – Genesis 45:4
- Will will want them to forgive themselves and not feel guilty
- We will let them save face, preserving their dignity and their esteem
- We will protect them from their greatest fear
- Forgiveness is a lifetime commitment
- You will pray for them to be blessed
- Matthew 5:44
- Acts 7:60
Scripture Verses
Ephesians 4:31-32