Forgive - to send forth, in various applications: - cry, forgive, forsake, lay aside, leave, let (alone, be, go, have), omit, put (send) away, remit, suffer, yield up.
For those of us who are His, the church, the body of Christ we understand that we have been forgiven. Not because of any atonement or sacrifice of/from ourselves to warrant His forgiveness but that while we were still dead in trepasses and sin Christ died for us. Therefore, we forgive because we’ve been forgiven. Forgiveness is about Christ in us, not about ourselves nor about the offender. It’s about Christ Jesus.
God has promised that our sins and iniquities He remembers no more. Since He is within us, we forgive and no longer remember those that have trespassed against us.
Paul rehearsed his trepasses and sin as a testament to the glory of God. God’s forgiveness. Yet God had wiped out the handwriting of ordinances against him and us.
Therefore beloved, examine your heart and if Christ be in you, just as He has forgiven you, forgive. Now may your prayers be heard of God.
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