LIVE 2 GIVE: RELATIONAL GENEROSITY
RELATIONAL GENEROSITY
JASON GRISSOM
Part of LIVE 2 GIVE—SERMONS FROM THE GOSPEL OF LUKE
April 2, 2023

Luke 17:3–10
3 Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, 4 and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.” 5 The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” 6 And the Lord said, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you. 7 “Will any one of you who has a servant plowing or keeping sheep say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come at once and recline at table’? 8 Will he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare supper for me, and dress properly, and serve me while I eat and drink, and afterward you will eat and drink’? 9 Does he thank the servant because he did what was commanded? 10 So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.’ ”

THE

OF FORGIVENESS.

WRATH: IS AN OLDER WORD FOR ANGER.
WREATH: IS A SET OF BRANCHES THAT HAVE BEEN TWISTED INTO A SHAPE.
WRITHE: IT MEANS TO TWIST.
WRAITH: A GHOST WHO HAD BEEN WRONGED, AND AFTER DEATH, IS DOOMED TO RELIVE WHAT THE PERSON HAD DONE TO THEM.

THE

OF FORGIVENESS.

DO NOT CARICATURE THE WRONGDOER BUT YOUO MUST

WITH HIM OR HER.

Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans even as I exclude myself from the community of sinners.

WE FORGIVE FELLOW CHRISTIANS BECAUSE WE SHARE A COMMON

AND WE FORGIVE UNBELIEVERS BECAUSE WE SHARE A COMMON .

HOW DO YOU FORGIVE?

YOU MUST INWARDLY

YOUR RIGHT TO REPAYMENT AND PAY THE DEBT YOURSELF.

HOW DO YOU FORGIVE? YOU CAN ONLY FORGIVE IF INWARDLY YOU

SEEKING PAYMENT.

TRY TO HURT THEM.
THEIR REPUTATION.
INWARDLY AGAINST THEM.

YOU MUST

THE GOOD OF THE WRONGDOER.

THE

TO FORGIVENESS.

DON’T BE A

ACTING LIKE A KING.