Series: 70x7
A QUESTION ON FORGIVENESS
November 05, 2023 | Michael Davis
Then Peter came to him and asked, “Lord, how often should I forgive someone who sins against me? Seven times?”
Matthew 18:21 (NLT)
“No, not seven times,” Jesus replied, “but seventy times seven!"
Matthew 18:22 (NLT)
“Therefore, the Kingdom of Heaven can be compared to a king who decided to bring his accounts up to date with servants who had borrowed money from him. In the process, one of his debtors was brought in who owed him millions of dollars. He couldn’t pay, so his master ordered that he be sold—along with his wife, his children, and everything he owned—to pay the debt. “But the man fell down before his master and begged him, ‘Please, be patient with me, and I will pay it all.’ Then his master was filled with pity for him, and he released him and forgave his debt. “But when the man left the king, he went to a fellow servant who owed him a few thousand dollars. He grabbed him by the throat and demanded instant payment. “His fellow servant fell down before him and begged for a little more time. ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay it,’ he pleaded. But his creditor wouldn’t wait. He had the man arrested and put in prison until the debt could be paid in full. “When some of the other servants saw this, they were very upset. They went to the king and told him everything that had happened. Then the king called in the man he had forgiven and said, ‘You evil servant! I forgave you that tremendous debt because you pleaded with me.
Shouldn’t you have mercy on your fellow servant, just as I had mercy on you?’ Then the angry king sent the man to prison to be tortured until he had paid his entire debt.”
Matthew 18:23-34 (NLT)
“That’s what my heavenly Father will do to you if you refuse to forgive your brothers and sisters from your heart.”
Matthew 18:35 (NLT)
"You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins. He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross."
Colossians 2:13-14 (NLT)
JESUS DESIRES THAT EVERYONE FORGIVES EVERYONE FOR EVERYTHING
“Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.” C.S. Lewis - The Weight of Glory
FORGIVENESS IS LIMITLESS
Series Information
Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we will begin a month-long series looking at Jesus’s most provocative story… a story that will not only challenge us to the core of who we are, but a story that will lead us to experience maybe for the first time… or the first time in a long-time… Healing. Freedom. Restoration. Rest. Peace. Joy.
