Ephesians Part 16 (Wonderful Work of Salvation)

INTRO: Several years ago a young man by name of Michael Carneal entered a school in Kentucky and shot three teenaged girls. Well, by now we're getting a little accustomed to students shooting students and teachers. Now we've had the shooting in Colorado, followed shortly thereafter by a shooting in our own traditional and conservative province of Alberta. But what is interesting is the response of the young people in the Kentucky school. I quote from the Alberta Report of July 6, 1998, 'Their (the three teenage girls) schoolmates hung out a banner emblazoned, 'We forgive you, Mike.'...'

There is a modern view of forgiveness which Alberta Report claims was bred in the hippy generation of the 60's. The Byfields give another example of this kind of forgiveness. Timothy McVeigh is the man convicted of the Oklahoma bombing which killed 168 people. According to this same article a Massechusetts preacher called on his congregation, in whose attendance was president Bill Clinton, to forgive this murderer. Here are the preacher's words, 'Can each of you look at a picture of Timothy McVeigh and forgive him? I have, and I invite you to do the same.'