BY ELDER CRAIG A. CARDON
Instructor - Talia Deccio
D&C 20:5-6
D&C 64:7
Examples of Forgiveness:
-Forgive them for they know not what they do -
- Jesus forgave the woman taken in adultery
- Woman at the well
- Emma Smith, an elect lady
- With Mary and Martha, forgave busyness
-Woman who washed Christ's feet with tears
-Those he healed- Thy sins are forgiven
Luke 5:17-26 Take up thy bed and walk.
Matt 18:21-22 Forgive 70x7
-As a young girl kept a tally in my closet of each time I forgave my sister.
D&C 90:1 Even Prophets of the Lord are susceptible to sin.
The scriptures are for our benefit.
Forgiveness requires repentance.
"With regard to repeated serious sexual sin, He makes known the increased difficulty of receiving His forgiveness.29 And He has said that “he who sins against the greater light shall receive the greater condemnation.”30 Yet, in His mercy, He allows for improvement over time rather than demanding immediate perfection. Even with the multitude of sins occasioned by the weakness of mortality, as often as we repent and seek His forgiveness, He forgives again and again."
2 Nephi 32:8 Prayer is the way to forgiveness
-Forgiveness takes time, save a place in your heart for it, wait.
We need to forgive others and find the positive. Make goals to improve, little by little.
We need to do our part.
-Desire, not easy make room for forgiveness
"when werepent and obey His gospel, He forgives us.13"
"after we do all we can do,39 His compassionand grace are the means whereby “in process of time”40 we overcomethe world through the enabling power of the Atonement."
Be genuine
Forgive others
- Everyone has their own challenges
-Have patience and love
-We need to forgive others in order to be forgiven
-Someone transporting a fragile cake was driving very carefully and slowly, but other drivers could not understand and honked and road rage. If only they had known.
Colossians 3:13
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