And, you know, I tell you, he backed off. He backed off. And, I want you to know something. You're condoning it. Brothers and sisters, forgiveness never condones the sin.
Forgiveness never condones wrongdoing.
Forgiveness recognizes and acknowledges the power of God that raised Jesus from the dead. It recognizes the power of God, the Spirit of God at work in the hearts of believers to take away the sins of the world. And it transforms people's lives. All my life, I've been threatened and condemned and judged and punished and it never changed me a bit. But, when I was loved by the people of God, when I was shown the love of God in Jesus Christ by good men and women and children, just like you, who believed in the power of love and forgiveness it transformed me.