But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. Matt 6:15
What this age needs is to kneel before the cross of Calvary
and look into the face of Him who, though God in the flesh, defended not His
rights but reclaimed the rights of every fallen member of the human race.
From the cross of infinite love come the words: “Father,
forgive them.” Some eminent Bible scholars
affirm that the tense of the verb in the original means that Christ kept
saying, “Father, forgive them.” When the
centurion spiked Him to the crude cross: “Father, forgive them.” When the soldiers parted His garments and
gambled for His seamless robe: “Father, forgive them.
This is the example He left us. Dare we be unforgiving though grievously wronged? Dare we hold hatred in our heart while we
speak His name in prayer?”
by Oliver G. Wilson "With Open Face, 1983"
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