Thanks for joining us here today on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.

Today we continue in a series called The Seven Greatest Words of Love.

There are seven words in particular that Jesus spoke during his final hours on the cross that hold the keys

for finding fulfillment in your life, relationships, and even your career. Right now, here's Pastor

Rick with the final part of a message called the Word of forgiveness. Now there's even a right

way to ask for forgiveness. And there's a wrong way.

Let me tell you the wrong way to ask forgiveness. First, don't beg. Oh, God, please, please, please,

please, please, please, please, please, pretty pleased with sugar on it, cherry on top. Oh, God,

please, please, please, please, please, like God is unwilling to forgive you? No, he's more willing to forgive you than you are

willing to admit it god is more willing to forgive you than you're willing to admit it you don't have to

bribe or bargain or beg god you don't bribe and and say god if you'll forgive me, then I'll do this good work.

You don't bargain?

God, if you forgive me, I'll never do it again.

God said, yeah, you're right.

You'll be back there in another day or so.

Forgiveness does not change the future.

It clears up the past.

That's another episode we need to deal with later on in this series. But you don't beg, you don't need to. God wants to forgive me. You don't bargain. I'll never do it again. You don't bribe. Well, God, I promise I'll tide 20%. No, just ask. Romans 3, 23 and 24, says this.

All of us ascend, duh.

Yet God declares us not guilty.

If we trust in Jesus Christ,

who in His mercy freely, circle the word freely, freely, you don't have to bargain,

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