Forgiveness
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February 15, 2008
In his very entertaining book, Bible in Pocket, Gun in Hand, Ross Pahres tells
about a frontier preacher who was preaching against the sin of hatred. He asked
anyone who had overcome hatred to stand. One elderly man stood up. The stunned
preacher asked, "You don't hate anybody?" "No sir," replied
the man. The preacher remarked, "That's a wonderful testimony. Tell us why
that is." The old gentlemen said, with a grin, "All the skunks who
done me dirty, all them scoundrels I hated -- they're all dead." It's not
likely we can lose all our enemies that way. We might actually have to forgive
them.
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Illustration by J. Michael Shannon, Professor of Preaching, Cincinnati Bible College & Seminary, Cincinnati, OH.
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Illustration by J. Michael Shannon, Professor of Preaching, Cincinnati Bible College & Seminary, Cincinnati, OH.