Unforgiving Servant

The unforgiving Servant

parable about the upside-down value system arriving with God’s kingdom.

what is one of the hardest things to do in life?

because it is easier not to forgive!! think about it, it is easier to hold a grudge and because they have hurt you.

The Lord’s prayer Matthew 6:12-15

13 bearing with one another and forgiving one another if anyone has a grievance against another. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you are also to forgive. Colossians 3:13

but Jesus laid out for us: what should we do if our brother or sister sins against us? Jesus sets four principles before us.

jesus tells us how do we respond when they sin against us?

go and tell him his fault 15

take others and go and speak to him 16

tell the church 17

Excomunicate 17

in rabbinic discussion the consensus was that a brother might be forgiven a repeated sin three times; on the fourth, there is no forgiveness.

Peter thinking himself big hearted, volunteers seven times

all of them have been forgiven far more than they will ever forgive.

60,000,000 denarii = 164 years to repay

The Expositor’s Bible Commentary, Volume 8: Matthew, Mark, Luke b. The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant (18:23–35)

Those in the kingdom serve a great king who has invariably forgiven far more than they can ever forgive one another. Therefore failure to forgive excludes one from the kingdom, whose pattern is to forgive.

those who are forgiven must forgive, lest they show themselves incapable of receiving forgiveness.