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Lessons
in Forgiveness
2 Corinthians 2:1-11
February 6, 2022
Lessons in Forgiveness:
1. Forgiveness Displays God’s Mercy and Yours
2 Corinthians 2:1-4
Psalm 103:8-9
The Big Idea:
We all struggle with broken relationships, people who
hurt us, painful words, deceitful actions, friends who turn against us, and
unkind words said about us or our loved ones.
We live most days in
need of someone’s forgiveness and someone else in need of ours.
In
Christ there is enough love, power, and grace for both.
THE BACKSTORY:
2 Corinthians 2:1-11 (ESV)
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For I made up my mind not to make another painful visit to you. 2 For
if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I
have pained?
3 And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not
suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I felt sure of
all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all. 4 For I wrote to you out
of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause
you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.
Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in
some measure—not to put it too severely—to all of you.
6 For such a one,
this punishment by the majority is enough, 7 so you should rather turn to
forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive
sorrow.
8 So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him.
9 For this is why I
wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in
everything.
10 Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive.
Indeed, what I
have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the
presence of Christ, 11 so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we
are not ignorant of his designs.
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2. Forgiveness Restores the Sinner
2 Corinthians 2:7-8
Luke 15:24
3. Forgiveness Demonstrates Obedience to the Lord
2 Corinthians 2:9
Matthew 18:21-22
4. Forgiveness Reflects the Character of Christ
2 Corinthians 2:10
Luke 23:34
Luke 23:43
5. Forgiveness Thwarts Satan’s Schemes
2 Corinthians 2:11
John 10:10
6. Forgiveness Sets Both of You Free
Ephesians 4:32
Matthew 6:12, 14
To be a Christian means to forgive the
inexcusable, because God has forgiven the
inexcusable in you.
- C.S. Lewis
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