(Disclaimer: This transcript is auto-generated and may contain mistakes.) We're trying to avoid the bitter attitude and the bitter bridge burning. And as I mentioned before, we're always looking, when people do wrong, for them to be able to come to restoration. Now, we don't want to be so quick for people to be restored when they do wrong or they're wrong. It says that you're just going to restore them without any repentance. They ought to recognize at least what they did was wrong. And that's a very biblical teaching. I'm all for forgiveness and mercy, and I think it's great, and we ought to have that type of a hardened attitude, but there ought to be repentance that goes along with that. It's not like it's just blanket forgiveness regardless of what... Someone does commit some major trespass against someone else, and they just don't care and not sorry for it all. You're not expected to just forgive that person. Look at what the Bible says in Luke chapter 17, verse number 3. Take heed to yourselves. So he says, watch yourself. Check yourself. If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him. If someone does you wrong, rebuke him. Let him know, hey, you did wrong. And if he repent, forgive him. It doesn't say if he do wrong, rebuke him and just automatically forgive him. It says first rebuke him. Let him know he did wrong to you. Clear the air because sometimes people do wrong to you, and they don't even know they did wrong. And that's one point of bitterness when people are just too cowardly or afraid to just confront someone and let them know, hey, you did me wrong. Hey, I don't appreciate that. It's better to just get it out in the open because then the other person, it gives them an opportunity to repent and go, oh, I'm sorry, I didn't even realize I did wrong. Right? And if they repent, forgive them. Okay, fine. And it's all settled. That is the Christian attitude. That's the attitude we ought to have. And he says this in verse 4, and if he trespass against thee seven times in a day and seven times in a day turn again to thee saying, I repent, thou shalt forgive him. So even if he keeps making mistakes, I mean, seven times, like just come on, man. Can you stop? Can you stop trespassing against me? But seven times he's going, look, you know, I screwed up again. Jesus says every time, basically, that that person's going to be repentant for doing you wrong, you forgive them. And we ought to be ready for the repentant heart, be ready to forgive. And if you're ready to forgive, you're not going to be trying to burn your bridges with people. Okay? Give them the space to repent. If they've done you wrong, let them know about it. But don't let them know about it to the point where you're just like, man, that guy's never going to talk to me again. Right? And again, I'm not really talking about just like super extreme, horrible situations. That's not the scope of the sermon. Right? I mean, if someone like sexually abused your child or something, I'm not saying, oh, just be ready to, you know, look, that's understandable. Right? That guy's a reprobate for, you know, being a pedophile or whatever. We're talking about just regular things, problems that happen between people, especially between brothers and sisters in Christ. That's the scope of this. Okay? You need to be ready. Okay, they repent. Great. Forgive them. Let's move on. And when you forgive somebody, don't forget that forgiveness, if you're truly forgiving them, it's forgive and forget. You don't bring up the trespasses that someone did against you if you've already forgiven them. If someone repents and you truly forgive them and then they do wrong to you next week or next year or the same day, you don't just keep throwing that in their face, hey, you did, you know, look, did you forgive me? Then if you forgive them, let them be. Don't keep bringing it up. You don't need to throw it back in their face. Would you like God to throw in your face all the sins you've been forgiven of when you do wrong again? Do I'm just going, oh, total lie again. Or, oh, you know, you watched that thing, whatever. You did that sin. What about this? And what about that? And what about that? It's like, you don't have to get beat up every single time for stuff you've already been forgiven of.