Podcast
Forgive
The Salt Company - Ames
Speaker: Simeon Bell
April 9, 2026 · 47 min
Summary
Jesus teaches that Christians must forgive one another just as God forgave them in Christ. Drawing from Matthew 18, forgiveness begins with truthfulness about the transgression, moves through compassion for the transgressor, leads to restoration of the relational title, and requires willfully absorbing the loss—modeling the infinite mercy God extends to all believers.
Highlights
If you are holding onto bitterness and you're not forgiving other people, it's kinda like drinking poison and hoping that they die.
Biblical forgiveness is willful suffering. A parent who neglected you as a child is your cost that you have to pay in adulthood.
Forgiveness is not predicated on activity as much as it is identity. It's when we begin to understand who he is and who we are—we're servants.