Getting to the Place of Forgiveness - Part 2 (2 of 12)

Well, let me invite you to turn in your Bibles this morning to Isaiah 53. Isaiah 53 for our time of study in the world, in the word this morning. We are in the world. We're doing a study in the world of the word. We're continuing to look at the subject of forgiveness, a very important issue. I think you will all agree there are many issues in our lives, complicated issues that we deal with in our lives and relationships and our homes and our, our families, our marriages, and a lot of that stuff lies somewhere downstream of unforgiveness many times and bitterness and anger. And so if we want to fight smart in our lives, we want to climb upstream as high as we can go and to fight some of those crucial battles, and that battle for forgiveness is one of them. If we can fight and win this battle and learn the art of forgiveness, then we in one fell swoop can slay 1000 other giants at the same time. And so we're studying this topic of forgiveness and our focus last Sunday and today and next Sunday is going to be more along the lines of getting to the place of forgiveness. We live in a broken world where evils are done. We saw testimony of that on Monday of this past week at the Boston Marathon. Senseless evils are committed. And people are injured and killed and wounded and left devastated as a result. And so we live in a broken world full of broken people and committing sins, and some of those sins are directly committed against us. And how do we respond when such evils are done against us? There's probably a variety of things we would say that we need to do when evil is done against us, but I would submit that the most important thing that we need to do is to forgive....