Well, let me invite you to turn in your Bibles today to 1 Corinthians chapter 13, 1 Corinthians chapter 13 for our time of study in the word this morning. this is actually going to be the last sermon in our forgiveness series. We preached 10 sermons on the subject of forgiveness up to this point. and getting to the place of forgiveness and then what forgiveness is, how it gets carried out, and then we've started to move beyond forgiveness and ponder some things that are on the other side of forgiveness, that we hope will be a practical help to you, and today, we'll be, Us dealing with one final issue related to the subject of forgiveness.
So if you want to give a title to the message this morning, it would be Beyond Forgiveness, the Ministry of Trust. The ministry of trust. By the way, Lord willing, next week we're going to take all the passages that we have covered looking at the subject of forgiveness. We're going to make next Sunday morning a scripture reading service where we'll be hit with a full sweep of these passages and we'll be interspersing songs of worship.
By way of responding to the Lord. So we'll try to next Sunday capture the essence of what we have learned over the last few months and hopefully that'll provide a good bookend for this series. but anyway, whenever the subject of forgiveness is talked about at any length, the issue of trust always inevitably comes up. In fact, as I've interacted with members of our congregation over the length of this series, this is the most frequent issue.
That I have been approached with either via email or people in a counseling situation trying to just work out what is forgiveness and, and what does forgiveness have to do. With with trust, George MacDonald has said to be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved. Part of what I think he's getting at is that trust really is a very powerful gift that we can give to people, especially on the other side of forgiveness, but it needs to be dispensed and with carefulness and with wisdom. And a lot of times it's hard to figure out what that balance is....
