Forgive One Another
Series: One Another
Meridian Church of God Seventh Day
April 5, 2003
INTRODUCTION
Good Morning…
Good to see you (welcome all + visitors)…
Hope all is going well for you…
Illustration: Happy to Go
Series Introduction SLIDE 1
For those of you who are visiting, or missed the last couple of weeks, we have started a series on fellowship, or genuine Christian community.
We are looking to see what the Bible has to say about what community should look like and how we should treat and interact with each other. To do this, we have been looking at the “one another’s” in the Bible – the commands that tell us how we should relate to one another.
In the first couple of messages, we laid some groundwork down. We looked at the foundation of community.
First, we saw the need to accept one another, Paul wrote: even as God accepted us in Christ Jesus. We should accept one another.
That means we accept each other as we really are. We accept the real person. This comes from an understanding that we all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. None of us are perfect – each of us has his or her own flaws and weaknesses.
With that knowledge should also come the understanding that we are all on a level playing field.
What I mean by that is that none of us are perfect – therefore we should not expect it. I am not perfect, nor are you.
Again, that does not mean that we condone sin, or even accept sin – what it does mean is that we understand that each one of us sin and we accept each other anyways.
We all stand, apart from the blood of Jesus Christ, guilty before the Lord. It is in Jesus Christ that we are accepted by God – who is the One we have truly sinned against.
We will look at this concept more today, but if God accepts us, shouldn’t we accept each other?
That lead us to our second one another: to be real with one another. This is where the masks come off and the façade goes down.
When we have an environment in our church that accepts one another, then we are free to be honest about where we are really at and turn to the church – our community – for help.
This takes coming to terms with where we are really at. Something that is key to Christian growth, I think.
When we continue to wear the masks, it becomes easy to get caught up in that image and to believe that the mask is really who and what we are.
Removing the mask can be a scary thing.
Our pride tries to stop us.
We want people to believe we are great people. Full of holiness and godliness.
It takes great humility to admit your weaknesses and your struggles.
We see that example in the Apostle Paul.
1 Timothy 1:15
The thing that has always struck me in that verse is the present tense of what Paul says among whom I am foremost of all.
Our fear holds us back.
What will they think – those in the church? That question – will I be accepted? If they knew the truth about me – would they continue to love me – or would it be criticism and condemnation?
While these things make it difficult to take our masks off, we need to, we are called to in the Bible. The Bible calls us to speak the truth to one another.
Masks are not the truth. Their purpose is to deceive. That is not consistent with Christian values and truths.
The next foundation we saw is that we are called to agape one another – that is to love one another.
In that message, which was last week’s, we saw what it meant to have this agape love, in comparison to the other types of love.
I think it is important to understand the contrast between this type of love, the agape love, and the other types of love.
If you were not here last week, or if you need a refresher, the sermon is available on-line at our website, or we have it on CD or VHS – I would encourage you to listen to it.
We are called to love one another – the Apostle John felt so strongly about it that he wrote that if we do not have agape love for our brother, we do not have it for God.
Those three “one another’s” that we have talked about lay down the foundation of a true Christian community.
Everything from here, we could say will be built upon these truths, but I guess I prefer to look at it that everything from here will be an expression of these truths.
When these first three “one another’s” are lived in the church – it opens the door for the rest of the “one another’s” of the Bible to come in and for true Christian community to flourish.
Sermon Introduction
Today, we will look at an expression of this foundation in the command to “forgive one another.”
We have talked about forgiveness before, as I am sure we will again. We have looked at forgiveness in the past from a technical aspect – looking at what it is and things we can do to overcome unforgiveness.
Today, though, we are looking at it in the context of a Christian community – our community – the local church.
We’ll see what role forgiveness plays in these “one another’s” of the Bible and how forgiveness is not only commanded, but necessary for the church of Jesus Christ.
John Henry Newman said: “How can we understand forgiveness if we haven’t recognized the depth of our sin?”
That points us back to some of the things we have talked about these last couple of weeks – as we begin to explore this “one another,” we must be honest with ourselves about who we are and where we are at.
We need to remember that “level playing field”
Colossians 3:9-14
FORGIVE
We see elements of what we have been talking about there in that verse. Truth, love, compassion, unity.
And today, forgiveness.
…forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you.
We are called to forgive each other – just as the Lord forgave you, Paul writes.
We’ll talk more about the forgiveness of God in the next section, but let’s have a show of hands now: A couple of weeks ago, we had a chance to look around the room and see those of us who sin – that level playing field. Now I’d like to see – who is forgiven for those sins – who has been forgiven by God?
If that’s you, go ahead and raise your hands – the forgiven.
So, while we’ll talk about that forgiveness more later, we can at least come to the understanding now that that forgiveness applies to our life – we are part of that forgiven group the Apostle Paul is writing to here: …just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you [forgive each other].
If we are called to forgive, let us make sure we understand this concept of forgiveness. If we are to truly forgive one another, then we need to fully understand what it is we are called to do.
What forgiveness is not SLIDE 2
To understand what forgiveness is, we must first see what forgiveness is not.
First, forgiveness is not a feeling. Like agape love that we talked about last week, forgiveness is an act of will – something that we choose to do. It is a decision not to think or talk about what someone has done, and God calls us to make this decision regardless of our feelings. We will not always feel like forgiving, yet that is precisely what God has called us to do.
Like that agape love we spoke of last week. It is something we choose to do, regardless of our feelings. When the feelings come into it, then that was the philos love, not the agape, if you recall.
So, in that same way, forgiveness is not a feeling. You may not feel like forgiving someone who has wronged you. Yet, whether or not you feel like it, that is what you are called to do.
Forgiveness is a decision, not a feeling. What you will see though, is that the decision can make remarkable differences in how you feel.
Second, forgiveness is not forgetting. Forgetting is a passive process in which a matter fades from memory merely with the passing of time. Most of us have forgotten things – men, birthdays, anniversaries – we do forget things – with time. But it is a passive process. It just happens to us.
Forgiving is an active process. It involves a conscious choice and a deliberate course of action. To put it another way, when God says that He “remembers your sins no more,” He is not saying that He cannot remember our sins. Instead, He is promising that He will not remember them
Similarly, when we forgive, we must consciously decide not to think or talk about what others have done to hurt us. This may require a lot of effort, especially when an offense is still fresh in our minds. Fortunately, when we decide to forgive someone and stop dwelling on an offense, painful memories usually begin to fade.
Third, forgiveness is not excusing. Excusing says, “That’s okay,” and implies “What you did really wasn’t wrong,” or “You couldn’t help it.”
Forgiveness is the opposite of excusing. The very fact that forgiveness is needed and granted indicates that what someone did was wrong and inexcusable. Forgiveness says, “We both know that what you did was wrong and without excuse. But since God has forgiven me, I forgive you.
Because forgiveness deals honestly with sin, it brings a freedom that no amount of excusing could ever hope to provide.
So, forgiveness is not a feeling, nor forgetting, nor excusing.
What Forgiveness Is SLIDE 3
Now that we have seen what forgiveness is not, we can better look at what it is. As I we already discussed, forgiveness is a decision. It is something you decide to do. You make a decision on whether or not to forgive.
To get a deeper understanding of forgiveness we can look at the words the authors of the NT decided to use.
afihmi is a Greek word that is often translated as “forgive.” It means to let go, release, or remit. It often refers to debts that have been paid or cancelled in full.
In this context, we could look at sin as a debt that is owed, just like when someone commits a crime, we say they “owe a debt to society.”
In this case, forgiveness is paying or absolving that debt.
For example: You loan me $100.00, but then you afihmi the debt. I no longer owe you the money.
So it is when we forgive someone, we are releasing them from a liability or a debt.
carizomai is another Greek word that is translated as “forgive.” It means to bestow favor freely or unconditionally. This word shows that forgiveness is undeserved and cannot be earned. carizomai, when it is not translated as “forgive” in the NT is often translated as “to give freely.”
Such as in 1 Corinthians 2:12: Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God.
So we can see from these words, that forgiveness is undeserved and cannot be earned, and that it is releasing someone from a debt.
As these words indicate, forgiveness can be a costly activity. When you cancel a debt, it does not simply disappear. Instead, you absorb a liability someone else deserves to pay.
Just like that $100.00. When you cancelled the debt, the $100.00 did not just reappear in your pocket, you have to absorb the cost.
Similarly, forgiveness requires that you absorb certain effects of another person’s sins and release this person from liability of punishment. This is precisely what Jesus accomplished at Calvary. He secured our forgiveness by taking on himself the full penalty of our sins.
The penalty that we release people from is the same one that God releases us from.
Isaiah 59:2
When we repent of our sins and God forgives us, he releases us from the penalty of being separated from Him forever. He promises not to remember our sins any longer, not to hold them against us, not to let them stand between us ever again.
Through forgiveness God tears down the walls that our sins have erected, and He opens the way for a renewed relationship with Him.
As we seek to have true Christian community, this is what we must do – we must release the brothers and sisters who have wronged us from the penalty of being separated from us.
Sin can work against community and separate us, but forgiveness is the bridge that restores and reconciles our relationships with each other.
Ken Sande describes forgiveness as a decision to make four promises:
1. I will not think about this incident.
2. I will not bring up this incident again and use it against you.
3. I will not talk to others about this incident.
4. I will not allow this incident to stand between us or hinder our personal relationship.
And so we see forgiveness – what we are called to do with one another. The Apostle Paul writes, just as God has forgiven us.
AS THE LORD FORGAVE YOU SLIDE 4
And so we have the example and the model of forgiveness. In looking at forgiveness, we have the example of Jesus Christ.
We can see true forgiveness in the life and death of Jesus Christ. Paul wrote that our forgiveness should reflect the forgiveness we have through Christ Jesus, so let’s look at that forgiveness.
The life of Jesus Christ
First we have the life of Jesus Christ. Often, when we think of forgiveness through Jesus Christ we go straight to the cross, and we’ll go there next, but there are immense examples of forgiveness in the life of Jesus Christ.
This was, after all, the ministry of Jesus. Yes, He came to save the lost, but that salvation comes through forgiveness.
If you really look at Jesus’ message and His ministry – it is a message of forgiveness.
Reconciliation of the created with the Creator.
Matthew 9:1-7
There are two great things here – two wonders.
First, the obvious – the paralytic was healed. We see these miracles in the ministry of Jesus – the deaf hear, the mute speak, the blind see.
Jesus healed the sick and restored them physically. The paralytic rose up and walked home.
But even greater than that – what happened? The paralytic was forgiven. He had sinned against God – as we all have – and he was forgiven.
His sins were put behind him. Jesus chose to forgive him – and in doing so the man was not only restored physically – but spiritually as well.
As Jesus addressed the needs of the people He ministered to, He did not just address the physical needs – but He addressed the spiritual needs.
The greatest spiritual need we have is forgiveness – to be reconciled with God – to be restored.
It is through forgiveness that we have confidence in Christ Jesus.
It is through forgiveness that we come before God in prayer.
It is through forgiveness that we are restored to God.
Jesus’ ministry was based on the forgiveness and reconciliation of God’s people. That is how we are saved.
John 8:1-11
Here we see another characteristic of the forgiveness of Jesus Christ. As this woman stood there, Jesus did not condemn her. He did not stand there and criticize her, rubbing her faults in, lecturing her on where she failed.
She knew, don’t you think? She knew what she did was wrong as she stood there before the Lord.
Jesus did not offer condemnation, nor was He judgmental – things she probably expected from a religious leader.
Instead He showed mercy and love.
The example we have to follow.
There is one more verse I want to look at as an example of forgiveness in the life of Jesus Christ.
Luke 23:33-34a
It is here that I see one of the strongest examples of forgiveness. Jesus, amidst the mocking, the flogging, the ridicule, the contempt, and the crucifixion, up on that cross, said Father forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.
Even there on that cross, Jesus continued His ministry of forgiveness. Amidst the trials He was facing at that time, amidst the hatred of the crowd, He preached and granted forgiveness.
The death of Jesus Christ
Even stronger than that I think is that God granted that forgiveness. Through the death of Jesus Christ each one of us can be restored to God – we can be reconciled and brought into the Body of Christ.
I think that is an incredibly important thing to consider and remember. Each one of us, we are not here, part of the Body of Christ because we are some great people, or because we are perfect – because we are not.
We are here because we are forgiven.
On that cross, God, through Jesus Christ, absorbed the penalty for our sin – that liability and that debt.
Jesus paid the price for our sins. He took upon Himself that penalty. He took upon Himself that debt. He took upon Himself that liability.
Remember how we said that forgiveness can be costly – here we see the example of that.
Through the death of Jesus Christ, through His blood that was shed, you and I can stand here today – we can stand here reconciled with God.
The Body of Christ is made up entirely of forgiven people. It is on that basis, and that basis alone, that we are here – that we can enter the Kingdom of God.
It is not based on our works – but on the forgiveness we have through Jesus Christ.
That is the one thing we all have in common – those who have accepted that gift.
Through Jesus Christ, God has forgiven us of our sins – our failures and our weaknesses.
He has not ignored our sins or our failures – instead He has forgiven us and accepted us back into His fellowship anyways.
We are a group entirely made up of forgiven people.
There is a story I want to read to you – it is one that I have read many times – and I have always had a problem with it.
I read it again as I was preparing for this sermon, and I again decided not to use it. It just rubbed me the wrong way – it seemed to go against my human nature.
But God reminded me of His nature. And through this story I received a fuller understanding of His forgiveness.
Illustration: Tom McGee
Being a parent, I asked myself, how could the parents do that? They adopted the man who killed their son. It is one thing to forgive, but to take the man into their family…
That would be one of the hardest things I could imagine doing – but that is what God did.
He took the people who put His only Son on that cross, and He not only forgave them, but He adopted them into His family.
That is not just the Roman soldiers or the citizens in the crowd that day – it is you and me.
Ray Boltz writes a song, some of you may know, called “The Hammer” SLIDE 5
ILL> Ray Boltz “The Hammer”
I nailed Him there, with my sins and my transgressions.
We nailed Jesus to the cross. Maybe we did not pick up the hammer, but it was because of our sins and our transgressions – our debt that He died on that cross.
That story about Tom McGee was difficult for me as a parent, but after reading it a number of times, God showed me that I am Tom McGee – each of us is.
God’s Son died because of us – yet He has forgiven us and taken us in and adopted us into His family. That’s forgiveness.
FORGIVE ONE ANOTHER
Forgiveness as part of our individual Christianity
We are called to that forgiveness.
Ephesians 4:32 reads…
Ephesians 4:32
We are to forgive, just as God has forgiven us.
That is part of our individual Christianity.
It is part of the call that each one of us has.
It is part of God working in and through our lives.
We are called to forgive.
As we said earlier – we are a forgiven people. You are forgiven and I am forgiven. Because of that, we are to forgive others.
Jesus issued strong warnings in favor of this – warnings that illustrate our duty in light of the forgiveness we have been granted.
Matthew 18:23-35 (explain monetary amounts and comparison)
Has anyone ever owed to you what you owed to God from your sins? That’s the fifteen years wages vs. the hundred days.
You see, we are not called to forgive because we feel like it, because forgiveness is not a feeling – we are called to forgive – I would say for two reasons:
First, because we are forgiven – and God wants us to reflect His forgiveness by forgiving others.
The other reason I think goes back to that agape love. God forgave us because of this agape love. For God so loved (agaped) the world, that He sent His one and only Son…
God sent Jesus Christ into the world to pay our debt that we might be forgiven and reconciled with Him.
Our agape love for one another – the command that we saw last week – that should motivate our willingness to forgive one another.
Because of those things – those two reasons – we are called to forgive one another.
Forgiveness as part of our Christian community
If forgiveness is part of our individual Christian walk – if it is part of how we treat one another – then it is also part of our genuine Christian community – our fellowship with one another.
We are to forgive one another in this body.
The church, as a community of the forgiven, should be a community of forgiveness.
ILL> Comic 33 SLIDE 6
The church, by its very nature, should be based in forgiveness.
It’s sad, though. Last week we talked about the love we are to show, yet when the world looks at us, the Universal Church, they tend to see a hateful and unloving people.
Just this last week I was in a seminar, and as part of this seminar we listened to interviews with non-Christian people as they described their perception of the church.
I was shocked and horrified by some of their comments and viewpoints – that what they said could be, because some of it was so far from who Jesus Christ is.
Forgiveness is another one of those areas.
Let me ask you – when you sin, does God forgive you? Yeah, He does, doesn’t He.
I’ll tell you, there are times when I sin, and I hate to go in front of God. I am ashamed and embarrassed. I mad at myself.
But I’ll tell you what – I know I’ll find forgiveness there – I know I’ll find love and acceptance.
But when you sin, do you have that same confidence with your brothers and sisters in Christ? Do you have the same confidence with the church?
How quick we can be to be condemning and judgmental.
If we are, when we are condemning and judgmental, what example – what “light” does that show the world?
What does it say about Jesus in our life?
As a forgiven people, forgiveness should be so incredibly clear to see in our fellowship.
There should be no doubt, but that forgiveness awaits us here.
Sin and other offenses build walls between us – they separate us. Yet we are called to unity – to a Christian community.
Forgiveness is the vehicle that tears down those walls and builds the bridges necessary for us to live as the Body of Christ – to have true fellowship with one another.
CONCLUSION
As we conclude, I want to look at some final points and some final questions.
We are called to be “the light of the world.” Jesus said that by our loving one another, we show all men that we are His disciples.
I want you to think of something else along those lines.
Every time someone sins against you – every time someone wrongs you – you have a chance – an opportunity – to show the forgiveness of Jesus Christ.
What an opportunity we have – to reflect the love and grace of Jesus Christ by showing His forgiveness. A chance to show God in our actions and in our lives.
In fact, each of these “one another’s” are a chance to show God in our lives and in our actions. To show Jesus Christ to others – that they may see He is in our lives and in our church.
I want you to remember that as we continue through this series. It makes me sick as I think about the way the world views the church. Some of it is Satan, and I understand that, but some of it we have earned. Some of it is true. That comic isn’t too far from the truth some times.
The last thing I want to point out in our conclusion is that forgiveness is necessary in this community. SLIDE 7
I want you to take a minute and I want you to look around. Look at the faces of your brothers and your sisters.
Who do you need to forgive?
Who do you hold some resentment towards?
Who do you harbor some hard feelings?
Who has hurt you?
Who do you need to forgive so that you can have true community in this body?
Illustration: Underground Fire
Our Lord’s Supper service is coming up in a couple of weeks. Before we gather as that evening, I want to encourage you to go and be reconciled.
To dig deep and to put out the fire.
To forgive one another, as God, in Christ Jesus, has forgiven you.
Thank you, God bless you.
ILLUSTRATION
Quote: Newman
How can we understand forgiveness if we haven’t recognized the depth of our sin?”
— John Henry Newman
Wiesenthal
There is the story of Simon Wiesenthal who was a famed hunter of Nazi war criminals. As a prisoner, Wiesenthal was sent to a labor camp during World War II. "He found himself on a work detail in a hospital where a young SS officer lay wounded and dying. The Nazi mad Simon sit and listen while he confessed a long list of atrocities, including burning down a houseful of Jews in Ukraine and shooting those who leapt from the window trying to escape. The officer, tormented by guilt, begged Wiesenthal, as a Jew, to forgive him. Wiesenthal stood, turned, and walked away.
"He survived the camp and spent over forty years tracking down Nazi war criminals. Still, he remains troubled by doubts about whether or not he did the right thing in refusing to forgive the SS trooper. The Old Testament speaks of mercy and forgiveness. It speaks of love of neighbor, and Wiesenthal had been unwilling to love and forgive.
"Jesus calls each of us to be concerned with others. Selfishness and failure to forgive inhibits love. There is no greater commandment than to love".
Happy to Go - Humor
A woman testified to the transformation in her life that had resulted from a conversion experience. She declared, “I’m so glad I got religion. I have an uncle I used to hate so much that I vowed that I’d never go to his funeral. But now, why, I’d be happy to go
Crawford
Tony Crawford was a police officer in the Dallas Police Department. He was shot by two teenagers & was left paralyzed from the waist down. Finally, the trials were completed, & the last assailant was found guilty & sent to prison.
But there was a really tender scene pictured in the newspaper that showed Tony Crawford in his wheel chair holding the hand of the young man who had shot him. And the news reported that Tony Crawford said to him, "I forgive you, & I hope you’ll keep in touch & let me know how you’re getting along down there."
Then he said, "It’s over, & it’s time for me to get on with my life, & I will do that until I hear Him say to me on that day, `Get up & walk.’"
Lincoln, Nebraska
ILL. Listen to this true story. Rabbi Michael Weisser lived in Lincoln, Nebraska. And for more than 3 years, Larry Trapp, a self-proclaimed Nazi & Ku Klux Klansman, directed a torrent of hate-filled mailings & phone calls toward him.
Trapp promoted white supremacy, anti-Semitism, & other messages of prejudice, declaring his apartment the KKK state headquarters & himself the grand dragon. His whole purpose in life seemed to be to spew out hate-ridden racial slurs & obscene remarks against Weisser & all those like him.
At first, the Weissers were so afraid they locked their doors & worried themselves almost sick over the safety of their family. But one day Rabbi Weisser found out that Trapp was a 42-year-old clinically blind, double amputee. And he became convinced that Trapp’s own physical helplessness was a source of the bitterness he expressed.
So Rabbi Weisser decided to do the unexpected. He left a message on Trapp’s answering machine, telling him of another side of life…a life free of hatred & racism.
Rabbi Weisser said, "I probably called 10 times & left messages before he finally picked up the phone & asked me why I was harassing him. I said that I’d like to help him. I offered him a ride to the grocery store or to the mall."
Trapp was stunned. Disarmed by the kindness & courtesy, he started thinking. He later admitted, through tears, that he heard in the rabbi’s voice, "something I hadn’t experienced in years. It was love."
Slowly the bitter man began to soften. One night he called the Weissers & said he wanted out, but didn’t know how. They grabbed a bucket of fried chicken & took him dinner. Before long they made a trade: in return for their love he gave them his swastika rings, hate tracts, & Klan robes.
That same day Trapp gave up his Ku Klux Klan recruiting job & dumped the rest of his propaganda in the trash. "They showed me so much love that I couldn’t help but love them back," he finally confessed.
Folks, if that could happen in Lincoln, Nebraska, what could happen here in our community, in our neighborhoods, if we truly began to live lives that showed the love of Jesus to those around us?
Underground Fire
Unresolved anger smolders like something burning underground. I can still see the Canadian park rangers digging holes around a camp site located deep in the wilderness of the Algonquin Provincial Park. I was on a wilderness canoe trip with some friends when we paddled up to a small island. The rangers were digging like mad and taking buckets of lake water and pouring it into the holes. When we asked what was going on they said that they were putting out a fire. We didn’t understand since we didn’t see any flames, but they explained that it was a root fire. Someone had built a campfire where there was a root close to the surface. From there the fire had spread underground to several trees. You couldn’t see it, but you could feel the heat coming from the ground. They told us that if they did not put it out, it would burn down the entire island.
There may be an underground fire in your home. You may be good at hiding it, but the heat is there, and if it is not put out it may burn down your home. You have to get to the root cause and put out the fire. You have to dig down and expose the fire to put it out.
Tom McGee
ILL. One of the most incredible stories of forgiveness I’ve ever heard came out of Tulsa, OK, a couple of years ago. Tom McGee was a young man who went out for a night of partying & revelry. He got drunk & ran head-on into a car driven by a young man by the name of Ted Morris. He killed Ted Morris instantly while driving under the influence of alcohol.
This wasn’t the first time he had been arrested for drunk driving, so Tom McGee was put on trial for manslaughter, found guilty & sentenced to a term of several years in prison. But the prison was crowded, & prisoners were being given early paroles, so Tom McGee actually spent only a few months in prison before being released on parole.
But he evidently hadn’t learned his lesson, for it wasn’t long until he was arrested again for drunk driving. So his parole was revoked, & he was sent back to complete his prison sentence.
Jack Morris, his victim’s father, visited Tom McGee in prison. After visiting several times, he started taking cookies that his wife, Elizabeth, had baked for him. And they became friends.
Finally Tom McGee was released from prison, but he had no place to go. So Jack & Elizabeth Morris invited him into their home, & gave him a place to stay. They provided the means by which he could receive an education, & helped him find a job.
They were members of a Church of Christ in Tulsa, so they took him to church with them, where Tom McGee accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord & Savior, & was baptized for the remission of his sins.
Just recently, the news has come out that Jack & Elizabeth Morris have formally adopted Tom McGee & made him their son. When Jack & Elizabeth Morris die, Tom McGee will inherit whatever they have accumulated in this life. Now that’s forgiveness - an incredible story of forgiveness.
