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Last week, my dear friend Joe Phillips did an illustrative sermon from the forgiveness penitentiary and God used it to touch many hearts and free them from being a warden over those we had locked away in our hearts. We were also given a key to remind us of this day, this action, and the spiritual reality of it. But what about after? After the feelings of conviction and warmth are gone? When the smoke of burn over field blows back over you, or you see someone that resurfaces all the pain, shame, sorrow, and or anger that this person created in you. Join us as we examine the scriptures and search out what it is that God expects and is often the missing component to take us from the act of forgiveness, to the state of wholeness.

The story of Lazarus is a common one, but the faith and declaration of Martha is often overlooked to our own shame and loss. At the point of hopelessness, with Lazarus decomposition exponentially taking place in the jerusalem heat; her prayers unanswered, her hopes dashed, her expectation unrealized.....from the bottom of her sould came two words, 'even now.' Even now Lord, when it is to late. Even now, when the funeral music is playing and the mourners are heard crying around the tomb. Even now, where the stench of death is in the air and it covers anyone who comes within distance of it's power. Even now, I believe God can. I believe it is a matter of your will, not mine; and though my faith be small, it has one direction..... You, Son of God