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 Well, for the rest of us, I'm going to ask Brian to come up.

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 Brian Vickers has been with us a number of times.

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 Is this your third visit, Brian?

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 He's ignoring me.

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 I'll say it's his third visit anyway.

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 He can correct me.

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 You're fifth.

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 It's not.

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 I made a big impression on you, obviously.

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 Gosh.

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 Really?

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 Really.

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 Wow.

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 Anyway, five times.

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 So that's good to have Brian with us.

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 Brian is going to be teaching our New Testament 2 module this coming week.

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 So that's everything from Acts through to Revelation.

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 Monday night is an open night, which means it's free.

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 So you can come along and join in from 7 to 10 p.m.

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 There's a break in between.

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 And you can come along and listen to Brian and get a taster for yourself to hear and to

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 see what it's all about.

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 It might be a good way.

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 And who knows?

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 You might come back again.

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 But it's good to have Brian with us.

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 He's going to be speaking this morning.

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 So, Brian, thank you so much for coming.

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 And again, to have Denise and Jamie with us as well.

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 It's lovely to have you all here today.

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 Thank you so much.

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 Well, it is good to be back.

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 And it is five times, by the way.

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 I promise.

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 It's five.

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 I don't know why I would say it's less than that.

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 It is five.

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 And we started, I think, in 2013-ish, something, 14.

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 I don't know.

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 And so it's really great to come back.

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 And I know so many of you, some of you I don't know.

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 Hope to get to know you today.

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 Okay?

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 Johnny had asked me to preach.

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 A couple of weeks ago, he texted me and asked me to preach from a parable, maybe Matthew 18.

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 So I was surprised when I showed up this morning to find I'm preaching from Genesis, what is it, 37 to 50,

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 which I guess I can do.

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 Just have to adjust a little bit.

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 So now I'm going to preach from Matthew 18 because that's what Johnny told me to do,

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 regardless of what it says in your bulletin.

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 And so what I'm going to do today is I'm going to read the parable.

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 It's the parable of the unforgiving or unmerciful servant.

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 But what I'm going to do is I'm going to read a little bit of it and then talk about it and then read a little bit.

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 It's in three parts.

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 But rather than read the whole thing from beginning to end, I think what I'll do is read a little bit and then, you know,

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 let's go through it three sections at a time.

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 But before I stop, before I stop, okay, one more time.

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 Before I start, when we were driving to church this morning, we came by, we were going around the corner,

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 and I saw a flashing sign.

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 I had an arrow on it, and it said, slow, go slow.

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 And the arrow was flashing, and it had, I guess, an Irish word.

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 I think it's mall or something like that.

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 I probably didn't say that right.

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 It looks like mall, M-A-L-L.

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 I'm sure it means slow, right?

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 So what do you do when you see that sign, especially if you're not familiar, right?

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 What would you do if you're driving down a lane and you see a sign like that?

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 If you see a sign that says slow and it has a curved line on it, it's unlikely that you're going to floor it

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 and go as fast as you can, right?

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 What are you going to do?

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 You're going to slow.

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 Why?

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 Yeah, you have to take it easy because that sign is warning you, right?

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 That's what signs do.

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 So yesterday we were down at, I think it's Myrtleville, and oddly there were people swimming yesterday.

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 If you're from where we're from, we go as far south as we can to a place where the sand is so hot you can't stand on it,

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 and then we'll get in the ocean, but not yesterday, right?

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 So there's people in the ocean.

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 But let's pretend we're at Myrtleville, and you came down to go swimming.

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 And I was down there, and you were getting ready to go in, and I said to you, well, no, no, no, no, don't go in

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 because not only are the tides really bad, there's a chemical in the water that will surely kill you if you get in there.

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 And let's pretend you knew me and had a reason to trust me.

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 I'm not just some stranger telling you what to do.

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 What would you do?

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 Well, you probably, I would guess, you wouldn't go in, right?

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 You would, because I would warn you, right?

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 Now, the surprising thing is if you would look at me and say, I don't care, and just ran straight into the water.

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 But I would be warning you, and the idea was through the warning I would save your life

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 because that's what warnings do.

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 And they do that in the Bible, too.

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 Right?

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 So, I mean, God uses warnings to save His people, so His people will persevere, so His people will continue on.

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 Right?

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 But we all believe that God uses things, right?

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 So God uses, say, preaching for people to come to faith.

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 We all believe that.

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 Right?

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 God uses prayer.

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 Right?

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 God uses evangelism.

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 We believe all those things.

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 But sometimes we don't think about how God also uses in the Bible warnings so that His people will continue on in the faith.

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 And keep all that in mind for when we get to the end of this parable where there's a verse that can be a little bit tricky.

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 Right?

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 So, at the beginning of this parable, in chapter 18 of Matthew, just to give you a little bit of background, it's really important.

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 And in chapter 18, Jesus is speaking specifically to His disciples about what it looks like to be His disciples.

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 Right?

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 He's teaching them.

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 This is what, if you're one of my followers, in the community of my followers, this is what you should be like.

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 So, it's really specific teaching to His disciples about who they should be.

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 They should be like children towards one another.

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 They need to be careful and thoughtful and kind and not be stumbling blocks to other people.

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 And He tells them what to do if they have a problem in the church with somebody who is sinning but they won't repent.

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 And so, again, what He's doing specifically is He's teaching them what it looks like to be His followers.

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 Right?

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 If you're a follower of Jesus, this is what life should look like for you.

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 And that's where, and the parable's right in the middle of that.

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 And so, He tells this parable because Peter comes up, this is in verse 21, Peter comes up and says to Jesus,

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 Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me?

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 Up to seven times?

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 Now, it could be that Peter had heard, like there was maybe a tradition that Peter had heard about and knew about.

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 But it doesn't really matter, right, whether there was.

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 So the idea is that Peter comes up and asks Jesus a simple question, and that is, how many times do I have to forgive before I can stop forgiving?

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 Right?

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 Is there a time, is there a number I can get to, like, you know, that's five, six, one more.

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 And then I can sort of jump all over this person.

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 Right?

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 So He's got some idea that there's a limit.

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 Right?

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 That's all we need to know about.

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 Right?

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 Why Peter thought this doesn't really matter.

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 But He has some idea that there's some limit.

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 You get to some point, right, there's a ceiling, and you reach that, and then you don't have to forgive anymore.

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 And what does Jesus say?

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 Jesus answered, I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.

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 And some translations will say seventy times seven.

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 So what Jesus is doing here is He's giving Peter a number that is exaggerated.

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 Simply to say this.

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 When you're talking about forgiveness, you can't put a number on it.

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 And so that's why He says seventy times seven, or seventy-seven times.

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 It's just an infinite number of times.

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 Again, because what He's trying to say to Peter is, look, you're off to a bad start here when talking about forgiveness,

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 because you're immediately thinking in terms of how much forgiveness.

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 And so He completely kind of reroutes him.

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 And then you would think He'd be done.

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 And then Jesus does what He always does.

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 He starts to tell a story.

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 It's really common for Jesus.

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 People will ask Him a question, and He'll say,

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 well, you know, the kingdom of heaven is like this.

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 And it'll be the way He answers a story.

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 And so one of the things, why that matters for us,

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 is a lot of times we think about telling a story, right,

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 when you say something, or like if you're teaching, right,

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 or you're just sharing something with somebody,

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 you'll say, hey, you know, it's like this.

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 And then you'll tell a story to make what you said clearer.

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 Jesus does that sometimes, but a lot of times Jesus just teaches in a story.

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 And I think that's what He does here.

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 So Jesus tells Peter and the disciples this story, right?

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 And remember, how many times do I have to forgive?

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 Seven times.

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 And Jesus says, no, no number.

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 You can't put a number on it.

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 And then He says, therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king

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 who wanted to settle accounts with his servants.

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 As he began the settlement,

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 a man who owed him 10,000 bags of gold was brought to him.

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 Since he was not able to pay,

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 the master had ordered that he and his wife and his children

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 and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.

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 At this, the servant fell on his knees before him.

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 Be patient with me, he begged,

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 and I will pay back everything.

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 The servant's master took pity on him,

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 canceled the debt, and let him go.

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 So we'll stop right there just for now.

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 So Jesus tells us, okay, this parable is all about the kingdom of heaven.

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 This is about the kingdom that Jesus is bringing.

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 This is what life looks like in the kingdom.

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 And so he tells this story, right?

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 We have this king, and in the story,

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 in the story, the king,

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 the king has the power to forgive sins.

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 And that's all we need to think about, right?

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 It's not, that's the big thing here.

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 That's the one thing that Jesus is emphasizing here with this king

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 is he has the power to start to forgive debt.

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 And so the guy comes up, and if you have a,

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 I have an NIV, I'm reading from the NIV,

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 and he's selling these accounts.

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 He says he owes 10,000 bags of gold.

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 Now, you might have a different translation

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 that says maybe 10,000 talents.

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 Does anybody have that in their translation, talents, right?

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 Or maybe you've heard of that.

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 And so talent is just,

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 a talent is just a weight, right?

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 It's a measurement.

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 It's not like money.

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 And so if you had, imagine a scale, right?

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 And in the first century,

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 if you had this,

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 things would be measured according to a talent.

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 So a talent, which would be a certain amount of weight

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 on one side,

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 and if you had gold coins,

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 you put them on the other,

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 and then you know how much the gold coins are worth, right?

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 Because it would weigh out against this weight

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 called a talent.

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 And so the idea here, though, is

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 you have this servant,

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 and he owes 10,000 bags of gold.

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 Now, that is an impossible amount.

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 Right?

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 And I think Jesus knows this,

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 and I think everybody listening to this story would know this.

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 This is an impossible amount.

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 Now, that causes some people to say,

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 well, how could a servant have that much debt?

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 Well, it doesn't matter,

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 because he's a person in a story, right?

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 And so it doesn't really matter

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 how he could get 10,000 bags of gold in debt.

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 The thing is, is he has an impossible debt.

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 That's the point.

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 Right?

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 And so Jesus just uses this gigantic number

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 to make it already sound impossible.

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 Right?

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 So he's just exaggerating.

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 It's like,

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 so I have a way of doing this.

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 Everything to me is either

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 a countable amount,

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 or it's a million.

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 Everything to me is a million.

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 Right?

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 I mean, I've told you a million times.

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 Right?

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 It costs like a million dollars.

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 If I can't afford something,

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 it costs a million.

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 And that's just the,

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 that's the number I use.

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 It's just,

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 it's my way of saying,

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 I'm not very good at math,

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 and it's a lot of money.

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 Right?

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 I can,

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 it's a few dollars,

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 I get that.

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 If it's more than a few dollars,

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 then it's a million.

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 And that's what Jesus is doing here.

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 So this guy owes,

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 he owes more than he could ever pay back.

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 And it doesn't matter how he,

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 how he got this much debt.

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 That's not even a question.

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 Right?

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 Because he's just a guy in a story.

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 And Jesus is trying to make a point.

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 Since he's not able to pay,

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 the master ordered that he,

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 and his wife,

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 and his children,

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 and all that he had,

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 be sold to repay the debt.

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 So this guy is hopeless, right?

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 Because what,

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 if this is an impossible amount,

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 and this guy's going to be sold,

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 his wife's going to be sold,

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 just to pay back the debt,

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 he's got no hope.

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 That's,

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 that's the idea, right?

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 He's standing before this king,

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 he owes this king

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 an impossible amount of money,

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 there's no way for him to pay it back,

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 and now he's about to lose everything.

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 And then the servant, though,

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 fell on his knees before the king,

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 and said,

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 be patient with me,

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 I will pay back everything.

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 Now,

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 if you think about it,

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 when's that going to be?

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 He's not going to be able to do it.

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 But he,

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 he does the only thing he can do

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 before the king.

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 He has no other,

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 no other option.

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 So he,

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 he begs for mercy.

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 And that's,

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 and the king,

00:14:03.339 --> 00:14:03.919
 it says,

00:14:04.019 --> 00:14:04.519
 the servant,

00:14:04.679 --> 00:14:04.819
 right,

00:14:04.879 --> 00:14:05.879
 the servant's master

00:14:05.879 --> 00:14:08.459
 took pity on him

00:14:08.459 --> 00:14:09.559
 and canceled the debt,

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 let him go.

00:14:11.539 --> 00:14:11.959
 Right?

00:14:12.079 --> 00:14:12.639
 That's it.

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 All free.

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 So in the,

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 in the parable,

00:14:16.039 --> 00:14:16.559
 in the parable,

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 as we'll see,

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 the king sort of stands for God.

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 And we'll,

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 this makes really,

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 really clear at the end.

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 But the idea here is just this one point,

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 is that the,

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 the master,

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 or if you,

00:14:28.740 --> 00:14:29.000
 if you're,

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 if you're,

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 if your translation has king or master,

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 the idea is,

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 this king can completely forgive the debt,

00:14:35.819 --> 00:14:37.539
 the servant cannot pay back the debt,

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 he is completely beholden to the king

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 and the king's mercy,

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 that's it.

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 It's not really teaching,

00:14:46.100 --> 00:14:47.360
 it's not really teaching,

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 if you just beg enough,

00:14:49.040 --> 00:14:50.520
 finally God will forgive your sins.

00:14:52.160 --> 00:14:52.560
 Right?

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 Because it's,

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 it's not really that,

00:14:53.780 --> 00:14:54.120
 about that.

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 It's just about,

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 this is the only option this guy has.

00:14:56.340 --> 00:14:56.440
 Right?

00:14:56.460 --> 00:14:57.240
 It's just this king.

00:14:57.600 --> 00:14:59.700
 The king doesn't do everything that God does.

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 God doesn't do everything the king does.

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 It's just one point

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 where the king is being compared

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 to what God is like,

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 and that is,

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 able to forgive.

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 And that's it.

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 Right?

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 It's just that one,

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 sort of narrow focus.

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 That's what's happening here.

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 The king is able to forgive.

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 And he forgives this guy

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 after the guy says,

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 after the guy just begs for mercy.

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 He fell on his knees and begs.

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 And he canceled the debt and let him go.

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 All right,

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 so that's the end of the first part.

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 And that's what it looks like

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 when grace outweighs debt.

00:15:36.840 --> 00:15:37.360
 Right?

00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:37.820
 That's it.

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 When grace outweighs debt,

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 when grace weighs more than debt,

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 that's what it looks like.

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 And so this guy,

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 life has changed pretty radically.

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 You think,

00:15:49.180 --> 00:15:50.259
 until the next part.

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 So then he goes out,

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 and when the servant went out,

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 he found one of his fellow servants,

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 who owed him 100 silver coins.

00:16:04.899 --> 00:16:05.300
 Now,

00:16:05.320 --> 00:16:07.000
 that's not very much by comparison.

00:16:08.200 --> 00:16:08.620
 Right?

00:16:08.680 --> 00:16:09.220
 Not at all.

00:16:09.560 --> 00:16:10.019
 In fact,

00:16:10.259 --> 00:16:11.220
 if you want to just,

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 I'll give you a little bit of math,

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 because I had my daughter check it.

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 So I'm pretty sure this is right.

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 Essentially,

00:16:17.680 --> 00:16:19.740
 what the servant owed the king

00:16:19.740 --> 00:16:21.120
 is about

00:16:21.120 --> 00:16:24.940
 170,000 years wages.

00:16:26.180 --> 00:16:26.440
 I'm not,

00:16:26.540 --> 00:16:26.759
 I mean,

00:16:26.879 --> 00:16:27.800
 I checked this,

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 and my daughter checked it.

00:16:28.920 --> 00:16:30.300
 She's really good at math.

00:16:30.299 --> 00:16:30.859
 I'm no good,

00:16:30.939 --> 00:16:32.019
 but we checked it.

00:16:32.439 --> 00:16:32.559
 Right?

00:16:32.620 --> 00:16:34.519
 So there's a coin in those days

00:16:34.519 --> 00:16:35.419
 called a denarii,

00:16:35.459 --> 00:16:37.199
 and that's about one day's wages.

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 And it would equal up to get

00:16:39.919 --> 00:16:41.639
 10,000 bags of gold,

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 or the 10,000 talents.

00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:43.759
 It would,

00:16:43.839 --> 00:16:44.759
 you would have to work like

00:16:44.759 --> 00:16:47.019
 170,000 years.

00:16:47.079 --> 00:16:48.699
 This isn't impossible.

00:16:48.919 --> 00:16:50.799
 Nobody could ever pay this amount back.

00:16:50.899 --> 00:16:51.099
 Right?

00:16:51.100 --> 00:16:53.580
 So that's how much he owed the king.

00:16:56.019 --> 00:16:58.279
 170,000 years of wages.

00:16:58.879 --> 00:16:59.040
 Right?

00:16:59.100 --> 00:16:59.759
 Now, again,

00:16:59.960 --> 00:17:01.820
 the idea is impossible amount.

00:17:01.879 --> 00:17:02.279
 That's all.

00:17:02.560 --> 00:17:02.720
 Right?

00:17:02.759 --> 00:17:03.220
 You don't have to think,

00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:04.500
 well, how could he get that much debt?

00:17:04.759 --> 00:17:06.120
 Why did he have this much debt?

00:17:06.360 --> 00:17:07.819
 Was he doing something on the side

00:17:07.819 --> 00:17:08.620
 that was causing him to get?

00:17:08.700 --> 00:17:08.799
 No,

00:17:08.860 --> 00:17:10.160
 there's none of those sort of questions.

00:17:10.160 --> 00:17:13.080
 But when you come to the next part,

00:17:13.400 --> 00:17:14.440
 it's a lot of debt,

00:17:14.560 --> 00:17:15.800
 but it's really manageable,

00:17:15.880 --> 00:17:16.980
 and you can understand it.

00:17:17.880 --> 00:17:18.960
 Especially in comparison.

00:17:19.120 --> 00:17:20.040
 And that's the idea.

00:17:20.680 --> 00:17:20.820
 Right?

00:17:20.860 --> 00:17:21.600
 The idea is,

00:17:21.660 --> 00:17:23.060
 in the first section of the parable,

00:17:23.160 --> 00:17:24.040
 you have an amount

00:17:24.040 --> 00:17:25.340
 that you can't even imagine.

00:17:25.500 --> 00:17:26.759
 It is beyond imagining.

00:17:27.740 --> 00:17:28.940
 And in the second one,

00:17:29.019 --> 00:17:30.259
 you have a number that is

00:17:30.259 --> 00:17:32.320
 well within your imagination.

00:17:32.620 --> 00:17:34.340
 And you can completely grasp

00:17:34.340 --> 00:17:35.779
 and understand how much that is.

00:17:37.060 --> 00:17:38.060
 And that's why.

00:17:38.059 --> 00:17:40.220
 Because they're contrasted

00:17:40.220 --> 00:17:40.740
 with each other

00:17:40.740 --> 00:17:42.879
 in a very extreme way.

00:17:43.460 --> 00:17:43.879
 And so,

00:17:44.179 --> 00:17:44.919
 the guy comes,

00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:45.980
 he comes out

00:17:45.980 --> 00:17:47.740
 and he sees a fellow servant

00:17:47.740 --> 00:17:48.460
 who owes him

00:17:48.460 --> 00:17:51.460
 a hundred silver coins.

00:17:51.819 --> 00:17:52.339
 That's it.

00:17:53.179 --> 00:17:54.240
 Which would be,

00:17:54.559 --> 00:17:55.179
 more or less,

00:17:55.279 --> 00:17:56.220
 if this matters,

00:17:56.700 --> 00:17:57.759
 it would be more or less,

00:17:58.059 --> 00:17:58.619
 plus or minus,

00:17:58.859 --> 00:17:59.299
 a little bit,

00:17:59.399 --> 00:18:00.519
 four months of wages.

00:18:03.019 --> 00:18:04.200
 Which is a lot.

00:18:05.940 --> 00:18:07.319
 But nowhere near

00:18:07.319 --> 00:18:09.859
 170,000 years of wages.

00:18:11.159 --> 00:18:11.419
 Right?

00:18:11.419 --> 00:18:12.159
 So it could be done.

00:18:12.960 --> 00:18:13.279
 And so,

00:18:13.379 --> 00:18:14.460
 what you would expect,

00:18:14.619 --> 00:18:14.799
 right,

00:18:14.819 --> 00:18:15.519
 if you had never heard

00:18:15.519 --> 00:18:16.079
 this story before,

00:18:16.119 --> 00:18:17.059
 I'm sure you've all

00:18:17.059 --> 00:18:17.759
 heard this story before.

00:18:18.039 --> 00:18:18.639
 If you'd never heard

00:18:18.639 --> 00:18:19.139
 this story before,

00:18:19.399 --> 00:18:20.659
 what would you expect

00:18:20.659 --> 00:18:21.399
 this guy to do?

00:18:21.659 --> 00:18:22.899
 When he runs into this guy

00:18:22.899 --> 00:18:23.539
 who comes up and says,

00:18:23.599 --> 00:18:23.740
 hey,

00:18:24.039 --> 00:18:25.619
 I know I owe you,

00:18:25.740 --> 00:18:26.059
 you know,

00:18:26.359 --> 00:18:27.319
 I know I owe you,

00:18:28.599 --> 00:18:29.000
 what,

00:18:29.119 --> 00:18:29.819
 how much is it again?

00:18:29.899 --> 00:18:30.799
 A hundred silver coins.

00:18:30.839 --> 00:18:31.480
 You would expect him

00:18:31.480 --> 00:18:31.980
 to say what?

00:18:32.039 --> 00:18:32.500
 Hey, listen,

00:18:32.919 --> 00:18:33.279
 seriously,

00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:35.000
 I don't care.

00:18:35.899 --> 00:18:36.740
 You're not going to believe it.

00:18:36.819 --> 00:18:37.660
 I just had

00:18:37.660 --> 00:18:39.460
 10,000 bags of gold

00:18:39.460 --> 00:18:40.220
 forgiven.

00:18:41.339 --> 00:18:42.240
 We'll just let this

00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:42.920
 slide for now.

00:18:44.379 --> 00:18:44.619
 Right?

00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:45.839
 Or at the very least,

00:18:46.180 --> 00:18:46.819
 maybe he would say

00:18:46.819 --> 00:18:47.279
 something like,

00:18:47.379 --> 00:18:47.660
 you know what,

00:18:47.680 --> 00:18:48.299
 just get it to me

00:18:48.299 --> 00:18:48.899
 next week.

00:18:49.420 --> 00:18:49.619
 Right?

00:18:49.660 --> 00:18:50.639
 Which would still be weird,

00:18:50.759 --> 00:18:51.680
 but anything,

00:18:51.680 --> 00:18:53.220
 you would expect anything

00:18:53.220 --> 00:18:54.480
 other than what

00:18:54.480 --> 00:18:55.500
 happens next.

00:18:57.200 --> 00:18:58.139
 Just because,

00:18:58.299 --> 00:18:59.259
 just the difference.

00:18:59.960 --> 00:19:01.160
 Having been forgiven

00:19:01.160 --> 00:19:02.480
 all this debt

00:19:02.480 --> 00:19:03.820
 and now,

00:19:04.080 --> 00:19:05.259
 faced with a friend

00:19:05.259 --> 00:19:06.240
 who does owe him,

00:19:06.279 --> 00:19:06.900
 there's no doubt,

00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:07.160
 right?

00:19:07.220 --> 00:19:08.200
 There's no question about it.

00:19:08.220 --> 00:19:09.360
 The guy does owe him

00:19:09.360 --> 00:19:09.860
 something.

00:19:10.340 --> 00:19:10.480
 It's not,

00:19:10.540 --> 00:19:10.940
 does he owe,

00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:12.100
 it's not as though

00:19:12.100 --> 00:19:12.900
 he owes him nothing.

00:19:13.779 --> 00:19:14.940
 He doesn't legitimately

00:19:14.940 --> 00:19:15.980
 owe him something.

00:19:16.980 --> 00:19:17.180
 Right?

00:19:17.220 --> 00:19:18.100
 So the guy could say,

00:19:18.180 --> 00:19:18.380
 well,

00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:18.680
 you know,

00:19:18.759 --> 00:19:19.960
 you can pay me a little bit

00:19:19.960 --> 00:19:20.259
 now,

00:19:20.320 --> 00:19:20.779
 a little bit later,

00:19:20.900 --> 00:19:21.640
 but really,

00:19:21.800 --> 00:19:22.820
 I think that everybody

00:19:22.820 --> 00:19:23.860
 would expect him to say,

00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:24.180
 listen,

00:19:24.500 --> 00:19:25.320
 I don't even want to

00:19:25.320 --> 00:19:26.300
 talk about that right now.

00:19:28.600 --> 00:19:29.420
 I just basically

00:19:29.420 --> 00:19:30.120
 had my whole life

00:19:30.120 --> 00:19:31.140
 saved just now.

00:19:31.160 --> 00:19:32.420
 So we'll talk about

00:19:32.420 --> 00:19:33.080
 this thing later.

00:19:33.640 --> 00:19:34.480
 Because you just can't

00:19:34.480 --> 00:19:35.580
 compare the two things.

00:19:36.940 --> 00:19:38.400
 But what does the guy do?

00:19:39.920 --> 00:19:40.360
 Well,

00:19:41.180 --> 00:19:43.120
 he's kind of an extreme guy.

00:19:43.940 --> 00:19:45.500
 Before he says anything,

00:19:45.740 --> 00:19:46.800
 he goes straight

00:19:46.800 --> 00:19:47.580
 to choking.

00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:49.880
 That's his number one,

00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:51.300
 that's his first response.

00:19:52.279 --> 00:19:53.460
 And then he starts saying,

00:19:53.540 --> 00:19:54.200
 give me what you owe,

00:19:54.240 --> 00:19:54.360
 right?

00:19:54.400 --> 00:19:55.540
 So this is the guy's response.

00:19:55.840 --> 00:19:56.840
 He sees the guy

00:19:56.840 --> 00:19:57.960
 who owes him money.

00:19:58.360 --> 00:19:59.220
 He's just had

00:19:59.220 --> 00:20:00.180
 an impossible amount

00:20:00.180 --> 00:20:00.580
 forgiven.

00:20:00.579 --> 00:20:01.639
 He sees the guy

00:20:01.639 --> 00:20:02.259
 who owes him money

00:20:02.259 --> 00:20:02.939
 and he does what?

00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:04.240
 He just goes straight

00:20:04.240 --> 00:20:04.759
 for choking.

00:20:05.639 --> 00:20:06.379
 No discussion,

00:20:07.059 --> 00:20:08.460
 no sort of negotiation,

00:20:09.240 --> 00:20:10.359
 no payment plan,

00:20:10.559 --> 00:20:11.279
 just choking.

00:20:12.899 --> 00:20:14.339
 That's his answer.

00:20:15.220 --> 00:20:16.579
 And he starts yelling at him,

00:20:16.899 --> 00:20:18.259
 pay back what you owe me.

00:20:19.000 --> 00:20:20.399
 And then you think,

00:20:20.480 --> 00:20:20.699
 okay,

00:20:21.339 --> 00:20:22.879
 we're up to a bad start.

00:20:22.880 --> 00:20:24.660
 But then in the story,

00:20:24.800 --> 00:20:25.820
 Jesus has the guy,

00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:26.540
 the other servant,

00:20:26.620 --> 00:20:27.620
 say something that should

00:20:27.620 --> 00:20:28.680
 sound really familiar.

00:20:30.220 --> 00:20:31.340
 His fellow servant

00:20:31.340 --> 00:20:32.420
 fell to his knees

00:20:32.420 --> 00:20:33.200
 and begged him,

00:20:33.660 --> 00:20:34.740
 be patient with me

00:20:34.740 --> 00:20:36.080
 and I will pay it back.

00:20:36.880 --> 00:20:38.040
 What does that sound like?

00:20:41.320 --> 00:20:42.980
 It's exactly what this man

00:20:42.980 --> 00:20:44.640
 had said to the king earlier.

00:20:45.600 --> 00:20:46.400
 Exact line.

00:20:46.400 --> 00:20:48.780
 Be patient with me

00:20:48.780 --> 00:20:50.200
 and I will pay it back.

00:20:50.720 --> 00:20:51.100
 So again,

00:20:51.220 --> 00:20:51.759
 if you imagine

00:20:51.759 --> 00:20:52.480
 just for a moment

00:20:52.480 --> 00:20:53.240
 that you hadn't heard

00:20:53.240 --> 00:20:54.160
 this story before,

00:20:54.660 --> 00:20:55.360
 you might think,

00:20:55.460 --> 00:20:55.660
 okay,

00:20:55.720 --> 00:20:56.420
 that's going to click

00:20:56.420 --> 00:20:57.240
 in this guy's mind,

00:20:57.280 --> 00:20:57.420
 right?

00:20:57.420 --> 00:20:58.140
 He's going to get it.

00:20:58.480 --> 00:20:59.380
 He's going to hear that

00:20:59.380 --> 00:20:59.580
 and say,

00:20:59.640 --> 00:20:59.759
 oh,

00:20:59.840 --> 00:21:00.240
 you know what,

00:21:00.300 --> 00:21:01.140
 maybe I should stop

00:21:01.140 --> 00:21:02.019
 with all the choking

00:21:02.019 --> 00:21:04.320
 and ease up on that

00:21:04.320 --> 00:21:04.940
 a little bit

00:21:04.940 --> 00:21:07.259
 and maybe be patient

00:21:07.259 --> 00:21:07.920
 with this guy

00:21:07.920 --> 00:21:08.500
 and remember

00:21:08.500 --> 00:21:09.560
 that I just had

00:21:09.560 --> 00:21:10.280
 more money

00:21:10.280 --> 00:21:10.860
 than I could ever

00:21:10.860 --> 00:21:12.580
 pay back forgiven.

00:21:13.319 --> 00:21:13.519
 Yeah,

00:21:13.599 --> 00:21:14.579
 maybe I should rethink

00:21:14.579 --> 00:21:15.359
 what I'm doing here.

00:21:16.439 --> 00:21:16.619
 You know,

00:21:16.659 --> 00:21:17.619
 because he hears

00:21:17.619 --> 00:21:18.779
 his own words,

00:21:18.919 --> 00:21:20.099
 the very words

00:21:20.099 --> 00:21:21.240
 that he had spoken

00:21:21.240 --> 00:21:21.859
 to the king

00:21:21.859 --> 00:21:23.359
 that resulted in him

00:21:23.359 --> 00:21:23.919
 being forgiven

00:21:23.919 --> 00:21:24.759
 of all of his debt,

00:21:24.899 --> 00:21:26.240
 he hears right back

00:21:26.240 --> 00:21:26.699
 to him

00:21:26.699 --> 00:21:29.359
 just moments later.

00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:35.220
 And then in verse 30,

00:21:36.079 --> 00:21:37.240
 but he refused.

00:21:39.019 --> 00:21:39.460
 Instead,

00:21:40.099 --> 00:21:41.359
 he went off

00:21:41.359 --> 00:21:42.099
 and had the man

00:21:42.099 --> 00:21:43.319
 thrown in prison

00:21:43.319 --> 00:21:44.859
 until he could

00:21:44.859 --> 00:21:45.679
 pay the debt.

00:21:49.519 --> 00:21:49.959
 Right?

00:21:50.079 --> 00:21:50.199
 So,

00:21:50.419 --> 00:21:51.099
 the very thing

00:21:51.099 --> 00:21:51.839
 that he was,

00:21:51.979 --> 00:21:52.659
 not just he,

00:21:52.759 --> 00:21:53.599
 he was threatened

00:21:53.599 --> 00:21:53.959
 with that,

00:21:54.159 --> 00:21:54.740
 his wife,

00:21:54.839 --> 00:21:55.319
 his family,

00:21:55.559 --> 00:21:55.979
 all of his,

00:21:56.099 --> 00:21:56.459
 everybody,

00:21:56.619 --> 00:21:57.339
 he and his family

00:21:57.339 --> 00:21:58.179
 were all threatened

00:21:58.179 --> 00:22:00.000
 with that very thing

00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:00.979
 earlier

00:22:00.979 --> 00:22:02.559
 because of what

00:22:02.559 --> 00:22:03.399
 he owed the king

00:22:03.399 --> 00:22:04.339
 and it was all

00:22:04.339 --> 00:22:04.899
 forgiven him.

00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:06.979
 And then he goes out,

00:22:07.039 --> 00:22:07.759
 he meets his servant,

00:22:07.939 --> 00:22:08.539
 his buddy,

00:22:08.719 --> 00:22:09.599
 who's also a servant

00:22:09.599 --> 00:22:10.919
 and who owes him

00:22:10.919 --> 00:22:11.379
 an amount,

00:22:11.480 --> 00:22:11.959
 it's a lot,

00:22:12.039 --> 00:22:12.959
 but he can pay it back.

00:22:13.559 --> 00:22:14.439
 And what does he do?

00:22:15.119 --> 00:22:15.980
 Same punishment.

00:22:18.219 --> 00:22:19.139
 The same punishment

00:22:19.139 --> 00:22:19.980
 that he was threatened

00:22:19.980 --> 00:22:20.539
 with before,

00:22:20.839 --> 00:22:21.419
 he now,

00:22:21.959 --> 00:22:22.500
 he now,

00:22:22.639 --> 00:22:23.419
 not just threatened,

00:22:23.619 --> 00:22:24.480
 he has it done.

00:22:26.779 --> 00:22:27.139
 So,

00:22:27.419 --> 00:22:28.099
 there has been

00:22:28.099 --> 00:22:29.039
 zero effect

00:22:29.039 --> 00:22:30.019
 in this guy's life,

00:22:30.059 --> 00:22:30.219
 right?

00:22:30.279 --> 00:22:30.480
 I mean,

00:22:30.500 --> 00:22:31.179
 that's where the parable

00:22:31.179 --> 00:22:31.639
 is going.

00:22:32.319 --> 00:22:33.839
 There is no effect

00:22:33.839 --> 00:22:34.699
 whatsoever

00:22:34.700 --> 00:22:35.779
 in the forgiveness

00:22:35.779 --> 00:22:37.000
 that this guy received.

00:22:37.120 --> 00:22:37.500
 None.

00:22:38.299 --> 00:22:39.340
 It hasn't even made

00:22:39.340 --> 00:22:40.080
 a dent.

00:22:41.000 --> 00:22:41.660
 And the fact that,

00:22:41.779 --> 00:22:42.259
 and then,

00:22:42.259 --> 00:22:43.140
 that's even,

00:22:43.259 --> 00:22:43.840
 that's highlighted

00:22:43.840 --> 00:22:44.400
 by the fact

00:22:44.400 --> 00:22:45.000
 that he runs

00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:45.779
 into a situation

00:22:45.779 --> 00:22:46.819
 that's exactly

00:22:46.819 --> 00:22:47.880
 like the situation

00:22:47.880 --> 00:22:48.779
 he was just in.

00:22:52.620 --> 00:22:53.059
 So,

00:22:53.120 --> 00:22:53.880
 he's not like

00:22:53.880 --> 00:22:54.759
 the king at all.

00:22:55.759 --> 00:22:56.980
 He has none

00:22:56.980 --> 00:22:57.920
 of the same characteristics.

00:22:58.279 --> 00:22:59.200
 Even when put

00:22:59.200 --> 00:22:59.980
 in the exact

00:22:59.980 --> 00:23:01.019
 same situation,

00:23:01.819 --> 00:23:03.420
 except with this difference,

00:23:03.420 --> 00:23:05.200
 he owed an impossible amount.

00:23:05.480 --> 00:23:06.380
 His friend owed him

00:23:06.380 --> 00:23:06.759
 an amount

00:23:06.759 --> 00:23:07.960
 that could be paid back.

00:23:08.940 --> 00:23:09.700
 And he shows

00:23:09.700 --> 00:23:10.700
 no reflection

00:23:10.700 --> 00:23:11.340
 whatsoever

00:23:11.340 --> 00:23:12.600
 of the king.

00:23:14.180 --> 00:23:14.580
 So,

00:23:14.700 --> 00:23:15.640
 when we read this story,

00:23:15.680 --> 00:23:16.240
 when you read a story

00:23:16.240 --> 00:23:16.660
 like this,

00:23:16.920 --> 00:23:17.740
 it's really easy

00:23:17.740 --> 00:23:18.279
 for us,

00:23:18.620 --> 00:23:19.620
 and I do this a lot,

00:23:19.880 --> 00:23:20.500
 it's really easy

00:23:20.500 --> 00:23:21.279
 to come to this guy

00:23:21.279 --> 00:23:21.640
 and think,

00:23:21.740 --> 00:23:21.880
 oh,

00:23:21.920 --> 00:23:22.840
 that guy's awful.

00:23:23.180 --> 00:23:23.840
 And he is,

00:23:24.019 --> 00:23:24.200
 right?

00:23:24.259 --> 00:23:24.960
 There's really no,

00:23:25.039 --> 00:23:25.140
 like,

00:23:25.380 --> 00:23:25.519
 well,

00:23:25.539 --> 00:23:25.680
 you know,

00:23:25.700 --> 00:23:26.560
 he's kind of bad,

00:23:26.620 --> 00:23:27.320
 but he's probably

00:23:27.320 --> 00:23:28.279
 of some good qualities.

00:23:28.580 --> 00:23:29.460
 This guy has no

00:23:29.460 --> 00:23:30.220
 good qualities,

00:23:30.700 --> 00:23:31.480
 as far as we know.

00:23:31.840 --> 00:23:32.240
 None.

00:23:32.880 --> 00:23:33.320
 But again,

00:23:33.319 --> 00:23:33.639
 remember,

00:23:33.700 --> 00:23:34.339
 he's just a guy

00:23:34.339 --> 00:23:34.839
 in a story.

00:23:34.939 --> 00:23:35.399
 He's not like a,

00:23:35.939 --> 00:23:36.419
 not like he has

00:23:36.419 --> 00:23:37.379
 a whole personality,

00:23:37.500 --> 00:23:37.579
 right?

00:23:37.579 --> 00:23:38.079
 He's just a guy

00:23:38.079 --> 00:23:38.519
 in a story,

00:23:38.599 --> 00:23:39.720
 and this is what he does.

00:23:40.299 --> 00:23:41.240
 He owes money,

00:23:41.339 --> 00:23:41.799
 he gets forgiven,

00:23:41.879 --> 00:23:42.599
 then he chokes people

00:23:42.599 --> 00:23:42.859
 who owes,

00:23:42.899 --> 00:23:44.139
 that's his whole life.

00:23:44.619 --> 00:23:45.259
 Doesn't do anything

00:23:45.259 --> 00:23:45.899
 other than that.

00:23:46.419 --> 00:23:48.279
 But it's easy to read

00:23:48.279 --> 00:23:49.319
 the story and think,

00:23:49.439 --> 00:23:49.619
 oh,

00:23:49.700 --> 00:23:50.319
 that guy,

00:23:50.859 --> 00:23:51.819
 that guy,

00:23:51.919 --> 00:23:52.799
 I can't wait

00:23:52.799 --> 00:23:53.919
 until he gets

00:23:53.919 --> 00:23:54.899
 what's coming to him.

00:23:55.279 --> 00:23:55.480
 Right?

00:23:55.960 --> 00:23:56.259
 I mean,

00:23:56.279 --> 00:23:56.679
 anybody,

00:23:56.799 --> 00:23:57.379
 or is it just me?

00:23:57.759 --> 00:23:58.659
 Am I the only person

00:23:58.659 --> 00:23:59.359
 who reads the story

00:23:59.359 --> 00:23:59.720
 and thinks,

00:23:59.859 --> 00:24:00.919
 I cannot wait

00:24:00.919 --> 00:24:01.700
 for the next part

00:24:01.700 --> 00:24:03.340
 when we get to find out

00:24:03.340 --> 00:24:04.299
 what happens to this guy?

00:24:04.860 --> 00:24:05.080
 Well,

00:24:05.480 --> 00:24:07.480
 there's a good reason

00:24:07.480 --> 00:24:07.920
 we do that,

00:24:08.080 --> 00:24:09.860
 but we should probably

00:24:09.860 --> 00:24:11.860
 slow down a little bit

00:24:11.860 --> 00:24:13.960
 when we see characters

00:24:13.960 --> 00:24:14.960
 like this in the Bible.

00:24:15.539 --> 00:24:16.299
 And yeah,

00:24:16.420 --> 00:24:17.240
 we don't have to say,

00:24:17.380 --> 00:24:18.900
 we don't have to condone,

00:24:19.019 --> 00:24:19.360
 obviously,

00:24:19.420 --> 00:24:19.880
 what they're doing,

00:24:19.880 --> 00:24:21.660
 but we should slow down

00:24:21.660 --> 00:24:22.380
 a little bit

00:24:22.380 --> 00:24:23.780
 and just ask ourselves,

00:24:24.080 --> 00:24:24.720
 is there maybe

00:24:24.720 --> 00:24:27.380
 a little bit of a mirror here?

00:24:29.900 --> 00:24:30.880
 Not that you've ever

00:24:30.880 --> 00:24:31.640
 choked somebody

00:24:31.640 --> 00:24:32.300
 who owed you money

00:24:32.300 --> 00:24:33.260
 or anything like that.

00:24:34.700 --> 00:24:35.640
 But it's easy,

00:24:35.720 --> 00:24:36.800
 especially in the Gospels,

00:24:36.880 --> 00:24:37.000
 right?

00:24:37.020 --> 00:24:37.840
 It's easy when you're

00:24:37.840 --> 00:24:38.800
 reading the Gospels

00:24:38.800 --> 00:24:41.360
 to kind of immediately

00:24:41.360 --> 00:24:42.460
 side with like

00:24:42.460 --> 00:24:43.540
 the good guys,

00:24:43.940 --> 00:24:44.220
 right?

00:24:44.360 --> 00:24:46.320
 Like the woman

00:24:46.320 --> 00:24:48.020
 who washes Jesus' feet.

00:24:48.019 --> 00:24:48.980
 Right?

00:24:49.519 --> 00:24:49.920
 Obviously,

00:24:50.059 --> 00:24:50.460
 she's good.

00:24:51.000 --> 00:24:51.139
 Right?

00:24:51.339 --> 00:24:52.759
 Or when people come up

00:24:52.759 --> 00:24:54.200
 and they clearly believe

00:24:54.200 --> 00:24:54.539
 in Jesus

00:24:54.539 --> 00:24:55.420
 and trust in Jesus.

00:24:56.500 --> 00:24:57.319
 And we should,

00:24:57.440 --> 00:24:57.579
 right?

00:24:57.619 --> 00:24:58.200
 We immediately

00:24:58.200 --> 00:24:59.079
 kind of side with them.

00:24:59.299 --> 00:24:59.920
 But then like

00:24:59.920 --> 00:25:01.019
 the Pharisees show up

00:25:01.019 --> 00:25:01.259
 and we're like,

00:25:01.379 --> 00:25:01.559
 oh,

00:25:01.639 --> 00:25:02.740
 these Pharisees are awful.

00:25:02.980 --> 00:25:03.119
 Now,

00:25:03.180 --> 00:25:03.799
 they are awful.

00:25:04.579 --> 00:25:05.579
 But we have a way

00:25:05.579 --> 00:25:05.960
 of like,

00:25:06.720 --> 00:25:07.480
 they're awful.

00:25:09.799 --> 00:25:10.200
 Obviously,

00:25:10.299 --> 00:25:11.019
 I would be different.

00:25:11.740 --> 00:25:11.980
 Right?

00:25:12.019 --> 00:25:12.900
 Or when the disciples

00:25:12.900 --> 00:25:13.599
 do something

00:25:13.599 --> 00:25:13.900
 that is,

00:25:14.000 --> 00:25:14.740
 they make a mistake.

00:25:14.799 --> 00:25:15.139
 And they make

00:25:15.139 --> 00:25:16.079
 plenty of mistakes.

00:25:17.279 --> 00:25:18.000
 But we kind of

00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:18.519
 look at when they

00:25:18.519 --> 00:25:19.039
 make mistakes

00:25:19.039 --> 00:25:19.460
 and think,

00:25:19.740 --> 00:25:19.940
 oh,

00:25:20.019 --> 00:25:20.660
 those guys.

00:25:21.160 --> 00:25:22.180
 Those guys are dummies.

00:25:24.119 --> 00:25:24.519
 Right?

00:25:24.619 --> 00:25:25.599
 I never would have

00:25:25.599 --> 00:25:26.339
 made that mistake.

00:25:26.880 --> 00:25:27.140
 Right?

00:25:27.339 --> 00:25:28.380
 I would have taken

00:25:28.380 --> 00:25:29.460
 Jesus to Jerusalem

00:25:29.460 --> 00:25:30.380
 in three seconds

00:25:30.380 --> 00:25:30.900
 to die

00:25:30.900 --> 00:25:31.740
 if it had been me.

00:25:32.119 --> 00:25:32.319
 Right?

00:25:32.660 --> 00:25:32.819
 So,

00:25:33.000 --> 00:25:33.740
 you know what I'm talking about?

00:25:33.779 --> 00:25:34.220
 Remember this story?

00:25:34.480 --> 00:25:35.720
 He tells Peter

00:25:35.720 --> 00:25:36.160
 and the disciples,

00:25:36.279 --> 00:25:36.579
 I'm going down

00:25:36.579 --> 00:25:37.119
 to Jerusalem

00:25:37.119 --> 00:25:37.700
 and Peter says,

00:25:37.759 --> 00:25:37.859
 no,

00:25:37.920 --> 00:25:38.400
 you're not.

00:25:38.960 --> 00:25:39.240
 Right?

00:25:39.279 --> 00:25:39.960
 Which is not

00:25:39.960 --> 00:25:41.019
 the right answer.

00:25:42.279 --> 00:25:42.460
 But,

00:25:43.420 --> 00:25:44.059
 I mean,

00:25:44.059 --> 00:25:46.879
 can you imagine

00:25:46.879 --> 00:25:47.200
 saying,

00:25:47.440 --> 00:25:48.500
 that sounds like

00:25:48.500 --> 00:25:49.119
 a great plan

00:25:49.119 --> 00:25:51.220
 for you to go die.

00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:52.779
 Let's put you

00:25:52.779 --> 00:25:53.220
 on a cart

00:25:53.220 --> 00:25:53.819
 and get you there

00:25:53.819 --> 00:25:54.879
 as fast as we can.

00:25:56.399 --> 00:25:57.440
 But we tend to look

00:25:57.440 --> 00:25:57.919
 at when people

00:25:57.919 --> 00:25:59.000
 do wrong things

00:25:59.000 --> 00:26:00.019
 and we should,

00:26:00.259 --> 00:26:01.099
 they're there for us

00:26:01.099 --> 00:26:01.659
 to see

00:26:01.659 --> 00:26:02.700
 that they're doing

00:26:02.700 --> 00:26:03.220
 wrong things

00:26:03.220 --> 00:26:03.759
 and to hear

00:26:03.759 --> 00:26:04.279
 that they're doing

00:26:04.279 --> 00:26:04.899
 wrong things.

00:26:05.179 --> 00:26:06.299
 But at the same time,

00:26:06.299 --> 00:26:07.240
 we do need to,

00:26:07.379 --> 00:26:07.440
 like,

00:26:07.539 --> 00:26:08.679
 turn the word

00:26:08.679 --> 00:26:10.000
 around like a mirror.

00:26:10.679 --> 00:26:11.339
 Do I need to see

00:26:11.339 --> 00:26:11.879
 what's happening?

00:26:11.880 --> 00:26:12.440
 No.

00:26:13.900 --> 00:26:14.300
 Okay.

00:26:15.120 --> 00:26:17.340
 Just wanted to make sure.

00:26:18.700 --> 00:26:20.000
 It is like a mirror

00:26:20.000 --> 00:26:20.460
 that we need

00:26:20.460 --> 00:26:21.180
 to be able to see.

00:26:21.280 --> 00:26:21.780
 You know what?

00:26:22.520 --> 00:26:24.040
 Maybe I don't choke people.

00:26:24.200 --> 00:26:24.740
 Maybe I'm not

00:26:24.740 --> 00:26:25.720
 as extreme as this guy.

00:26:25.780 --> 00:26:26.800
 But I can remember

00:26:26.800 --> 00:26:27.840
 times where

00:26:27.840 --> 00:26:30.400
 I have not

00:26:30.400 --> 00:26:31.160
 extended forgiveness

00:26:31.160 --> 00:26:31.720
 to people.

00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:34.420
 I can remember

00:26:34.420 --> 00:26:35.620
 times when

00:26:35.620 --> 00:26:38.040
 I knew ahead of time

00:26:38.040 --> 00:26:39.260
 I was already

00:26:39.260 --> 00:26:40.140
 having an argument

00:26:40.140 --> 00:26:40.820
 with that person

00:26:40.820 --> 00:26:41.740
 in my mind

00:26:41.740 --> 00:26:42.880
 before I got there.

00:26:43.380 --> 00:26:44.599
 I knew ahead of time

00:26:44.599 --> 00:26:45.120
 what that guy

00:26:45.120 --> 00:26:46.180
 was going to say to me

00:26:46.180 --> 00:26:46.720
 because I know

00:26:46.720 --> 00:26:47.539
 what he's like.

00:26:48.500 --> 00:26:49.440
 And in my mind

00:26:49.440 --> 00:26:49.900
 I'm thinking

00:26:49.900 --> 00:26:50.660
 what that discussion

00:26:50.660 --> 00:26:51.279
 is going to be like

00:26:51.279 --> 00:26:52.559
 and I'm already upset

00:26:52.559 --> 00:26:54.839
 thinking about

00:26:54.839 --> 00:26:55.400
 a discussion

00:26:55.400 --> 00:26:56.220
 that's only happened

00:26:56.220 --> 00:26:57.019
 in my imagination.

00:26:58.200 --> 00:26:59.019
 And then when I get

00:26:59.019 --> 00:26:59.640
 to wherever I'm going

00:26:59.640 --> 00:27:00.400
 I see that person

00:27:00.400 --> 00:27:00.900
 I'm already like

00:27:00.900 --> 00:27:01.900
 upset with them

00:27:01.900 --> 00:27:03.180
 over something

00:27:03.180 --> 00:27:03.859
 that just took place

00:27:03.859 --> 00:27:04.480
 in my imagination.

00:27:06.620 --> 00:27:07.559
 And so I need

00:27:07.559 --> 00:27:09.240
 to read this story

00:27:09.240 --> 00:27:10.400
 and look at this guy

00:27:10.400 --> 00:27:10.740
 and think,

00:27:10.839 --> 00:27:11.240
 you know what?

00:27:11.240 --> 00:27:11.779
 You know who can

00:27:11.779 --> 00:27:12.539
 be unforgiving?

00:27:13.859 --> 00:27:14.220
 Me.

00:27:15.539 --> 00:27:16.160
 You know who's

00:27:16.160 --> 00:27:16.740
 been forgiven

00:27:16.740 --> 00:27:18.559
 an impossible amount

00:27:18.559 --> 00:27:19.759
 more than I could

00:27:19.759 --> 00:27:20.519
 have ever owed

00:27:20.519 --> 00:27:21.640
 that would have

00:27:21.640 --> 00:27:23.039
 taken all eternity

00:27:23.039 --> 00:27:24.059
 and I could never

00:27:24.059 --> 00:27:24.700
 have paid it back

00:27:24.700 --> 00:27:25.339
 in all eternity?

00:27:25.960 --> 00:27:26.880
 And then I hold

00:27:26.880 --> 00:27:27.620
 things over against

00:27:27.620 --> 00:27:28.059
 other people

00:27:28.059 --> 00:27:28.440
 you know who's

00:27:28.440 --> 00:27:28.779
 done that?

00:27:28.839 --> 00:27:29.039
 Me.

00:27:30.900 --> 00:27:31.599
 So again

00:27:31.599 --> 00:27:32.359
 we don't have to

00:27:32.359 --> 00:27:32.980
 look at this guy

00:27:32.980 --> 00:27:33.420
 and try to make

00:27:33.420 --> 00:27:34.519
 excuses for him

00:27:34.519 --> 00:27:34.660
 right?

00:27:34.740 --> 00:27:35.180
 That's not the

00:27:35.180 --> 00:27:35.980
 alternative

00:27:35.980 --> 00:27:36.539
 like well

00:27:36.539 --> 00:27:36.859
 you know

00:27:36.859 --> 00:27:37.220
 maybe he's

00:27:37.220 --> 00:27:38.000
 had a bad day

00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:38.599
 or maybe this guy

00:27:38.599 --> 00:27:39.640
 nothing like that

00:27:39.640 --> 00:27:40.160
 so we don't

00:27:40.160 --> 00:27:40.460
 have to make

00:27:40.460 --> 00:27:41.160
 excuses for him

00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:42.100
 we do need to

00:27:42.100 --> 00:27:42.800
 recognize that he

00:27:42.800 --> 00:27:43.340
 is a wicked

00:27:43.340 --> 00:27:43.960
 person

00:27:43.960 --> 00:27:46.180
 but we also

00:27:46.180 --> 00:27:46.860
 need to think

00:27:46.860 --> 00:27:47.580
 yeah you know

00:27:47.580 --> 00:27:47.800
 what?

00:27:47.900 --> 00:27:48.500
 I can be

00:27:48.500 --> 00:27:49.380
 unforgiving too

00:27:49.380 --> 00:27:51.520
 especially

00:27:51.520 --> 00:27:52.200
 you know

00:27:52.200 --> 00:27:52.600
 when I think

00:27:52.600 --> 00:27:53.220
 about what's

00:27:53.220 --> 00:27:53.780
 been forgiven

00:27:53.780 --> 00:27:55.560
 what I've

00:27:55.560 --> 00:27:56.020
 been forgiven

00:27:56.019 --> 00:27:59.619
 and so now

00:27:59.619 --> 00:27:59.960
 we come to

00:27:59.960 --> 00:28:00.259
 the third

00:28:00.259 --> 00:28:00.879
 part of the

00:28:00.879 --> 00:28:01.180
 story

00:28:01.180 --> 00:28:04.059
 and this

00:28:04.059 --> 00:28:04.440
 is what it

00:28:04.440 --> 00:28:04.940
 looks like

00:28:04.940 --> 00:28:06.000
 this is what

00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:06.660
 it looks like

00:28:06.660 --> 00:28:07.460
 when debt

00:28:07.460 --> 00:28:08.480
 is weighed

00:28:08.480 --> 00:28:09.220
 right?

00:28:09.279 --> 00:28:09.680
 This is the

00:28:09.680 --> 00:28:10.440
 full weight

00:28:10.440 --> 00:28:10.940
 of debt

00:28:10.940 --> 00:28:11.379
 this is what

00:28:11.379 --> 00:28:11.940
 it looks like

00:28:11.940 --> 00:28:12.819
 and the guy

00:28:12.819 --> 00:28:13.339
 comes back

00:28:13.339 --> 00:28:14.660
 so he has

00:28:14.660 --> 00:28:15.859
 this friend

00:28:15.859 --> 00:28:16.660
 put into prison

00:28:16.660 --> 00:28:17.759
 other servants

00:28:17.759 --> 00:28:18.299
 saw what happened

00:28:18.299 --> 00:28:19.019
 they go straight

00:28:19.019 --> 00:28:19.619
 to the king

00:28:19.619 --> 00:28:20.879
 and they went

00:28:20.879 --> 00:28:21.240
 and told their

00:28:21.240 --> 00:28:21.879
 master everything

00:28:21.879 --> 00:28:22.339
 that had happened

00:28:22.339 --> 00:28:22.740
 then you come

00:28:22.740 --> 00:28:23.519
 to verse 32

00:28:23.519 --> 00:28:28.019
 then the

00:28:28.019 --> 00:28:28.619
 master called

00:28:28.619 --> 00:28:29.099
 the servant

00:28:29.099 --> 00:28:29.339
 in

00:28:29.339 --> 00:28:31.099
 you wicked

00:28:31.099 --> 00:28:31.879
 servant

00:28:31.879 --> 00:28:33.480
 now in some

00:28:33.480 --> 00:28:33.900
 ways we're

00:28:33.900 --> 00:28:34.160
 done

00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:34.940
 we're done

00:28:34.940 --> 00:28:35.339
 it's like

00:28:35.339 --> 00:28:35.980
 he's already

00:28:35.980 --> 00:28:36.619
 passed judgment

00:28:36.619 --> 00:28:37.259
 on him

00:28:37.259 --> 00:28:39.460
 you wicked

00:28:39.460 --> 00:28:39.900
 servant

00:28:39.900 --> 00:28:40.720
 I cancelled

00:28:40.720 --> 00:28:41.700
 all that debt

00:28:41.700 --> 00:28:42.119
 of yours

00:28:42.119 --> 00:28:43.259
 because you

00:28:43.259 --> 00:28:44.019
 begged me

00:28:44.019 --> 00:28:46.500
 shouldn't you

00:28:46.500 --> 00:28:47.160
 have had mercy

00:28:47.160 --> 00:28:47.839
 on your fellow

00:28:47.839 --> 00:28:48.259
 servant

00:28:48.259 --> 00:28:49.019
 just as I

00:28:49.019 --> 00:28:49.700
 had on you

00:28:49.700 --> 00:28:51.639
 in anger

00:28:51.639 --> 00:28:52.299
 his master

00:28:52.299 --> 00:28:52.900
 handed him

00:28:52.900 --> 00:28:53.480
 over to the

00:28:53.480 --> 00:28:53.880
 jailers

00:28:53.880 --> 00:28:54.200
 to be

00:28:54.200 --> 00:28:54.640
 tortured

00:28:54.640 --> 00:28:55.740
 until he

00:28:55.740 --> 00:28:56.200
 should pay

00:28:56.200 --> 00:28:56.599
 back

00:28:56.599 --> 00:28:57.299
 all that

00:28:57.299 --> 00:28:57.839
 he owed

00:28:57.839 --> 00:29:00.420
 right so

00:29:00.420 --> 00:29:00.920
 here he is

00:29:00.920 --> 00:29:01.380
 standing before

00:29:01.380 --> 00:29:01.759
 the king

00:29:01.759 --> 00:29:02.079
 again

00:29:02.079 --> 00:29:03.440
 and what's

00:29:03.440 --> 00:29:03.960
 the king's

00:29:03.960 --> 00:29:04.440
 basis

00:29:04.440 --> 00:29:05.140
 for judging

00:29:05.140 --> 00:29:05.420
 him

00:29:05.420 --> 00:29:07.180
 the king's

00:29:07.180 --> 00:29:07.440
 basis

00:29:07.440 --> 00:29:07.759
 for judging

00:29:07.759 --> 00:29:08.559
 in the first

00:29:08.559 --> 00:29:09.740
 part

00:29:09.740 --> 00:29:10.519
 right the king's

00:29:10.519 --> 00:29:11.279
 basis for judging

00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:11.720
 the guy was

00:29:11.720 --> 00:29:12.240
 the debt

00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:12.860
 that he owed

00:29:12.860 --> 00:29:13.180
 yeah

00:29:13.180 --> 00:29:15.079
 what's the basis

00:29:15.079 --> 00:29:15.740
 for him judging

00:29:15.740 --> 00:29:16.220
 him now

00:29:16.220 --> 00:29:17.539
 it's simple

00:29:17.539 --> 00:29:20.059
 it's the basis

00:29:20.059 --> 00:29:20.660
 upon which

00:29:20.660 --> 00:29:21.500
 the king dealt

00:29:21.500 --> 00:29:21.940
 with him the

00:29:21.940 --> 00:29:22.460
 first time

00:29:22.460 --> 00:29:22.920
 with which

00:29:22.920 --> 00:29:23.140
 right

00:29:23.140 --> 00:29:23.900
 in the first

00:29:23.900 --> 00:29:24.400
 time the king

00:29:24.400 --> 00:29:24.980
 forgave him

00:29:24.980 --> 00:29:25.420
 all of his

00:29:25.420 --> 00:29:25.680
 debt

00:29:25.680 --> 00:29:26.480
 and now that

00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:27.039
 becomes

00:29:27.039 --> 00:29:27.600
 that becomes

00:29:27.600 --> 00:29:28.160
 the basis

00:29:28.160 --> 00:29:28.640
 that becomes

00:29:28.640 --> 00:29:29.160
 the foundation

00:29:29.160 --> 00:29:29.740
 for how the

00:29:29.740 --> 00:29:30.360
 king judges

00:29:30.360 --> 00:29:30.800
 this guy

00:29:30.800 --> 00:29:31.240
 the second

00:29:31.240 --> 00:29:31.600
 time

00:29:31.600 --> 00:29:33.279
 and he says

00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:34.019
 I forgave

00:29:34.019 --> 00:29:34.920
 all of your

00:29:34.920 --> 00:29:35.259
 debt

00:29:35.259 --> 00:29:36.220
 because you

00:29:36.220 --> 00:29:36.640
 begged me

00:29:36.640 --> 00:29:36.980
 and again

00:29:36.980 --> 00:29:37.420
 like I said

00:29:37.420 --> 00:29:37.740
 before

00:29:37.740 --> 00:29:38.500
 it's really

00:29:38.500 --> 00:29:38.880
 important

00:29:38.880 --> 00:29:39.779
 this parable

00:29:39.779 --> 00:29:40.740
 Jesus is not

00:29:40.740 --> 00:29:41.620
 not at all

00:29:41.620 --> 00:29:42.300
 teaching that

00:29:42.300 --> 00:29:42.980
 if you just

00:29:42.980 --> 00:29:43.980
 beg God

00:29:43.980 --> 00:29:44.560
 enough he will

00:29:44.560 --> 00:29:45.200
 finally forgive

00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:45.800
 your sons

00:29:45.799 --> 00:29:46.919
 right

00:29:46.919 --> 00:29:47.440
 because remember

00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:48.079
 the point

00:29:48.079 --> 00:29:48.779
 the point

00:29:48.779 --> 00:29:49.259
 of connection

00:29:49.259 --> 00:29:49.720
 with God

00:29:49.720 --> 00:29:49.980
 in this

00:29:49.980 --> 00:29:50.440
 is just

00:29:50.440 --> 00:29:50.659
 the

00:29:50.659 --> 00:29:53.559
 he's able

00:29:53.559 --> 00:29:54.240
 and powerful

00:29:54.240 --> 00:29:55.680
 and merciful

00:29:55.680 --> 00:29:56.319
 to forgive

00:29:56.319 --> 00:29:57.099
 that's it

00:29:57.099 --> 00:29:58.220
 it's not

00:29:58.220 --> 00:29:59.139
 teaching everything

00:29:59.139 --> 00:29:59.539
 the bible

00:29:59.539 --> 00:30:00.159
 has to teach

00:30:00.159 --> 00:30:00.579
 about what

00:30:00.579 --> 00:30:00.940
 forgiveness

00:30:00.940 --> 00:30:01.659
 looks like

00:30:01.659 --> 00:30:02.559
 or if you

00:30:02.559 --> 00:30:03.039
 just beg

00:30:03.039 --> 00:30:03.279
 enough

00:30:03.279 --> 00:30:03.559
 you get

00:30:03.559 --> 00:30:03.940
 forgiven

00:30:03.940 --> 00:30:04.819
 right

00:30:04.819 --> 00:30:05.259
 so that's

00:30:05.259 --> 00:30:05.659
 it's got

00:30:05.659 --> 00:30:06.139
 this one

00:30:06.139 --> 00:30:06.379
 thing

00:30:06.379 --> 00:30:06.639
 Jesus

00:30:06.639 --> 00:30:07.200
 after this

00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:08.019
 one thing

00:30:08.019 --> 00:30:08.859
 not all

00:30:08.859 --> 00:30:09.579
 the things

00:30:09.579 --> 00:30:11.619
 but the

00:30:11.619 --> 00:30:12.259
 idea here

00:30:12.259 --> 00:30:12.839
 the idea

00:30:12.839 --> 00:30:13.179
 here is

00:30:13.179 --> 00:30:13.559
 the guy

00:30:13.559 --> 00:30:14.059
 had his

00:30:14.059 --> 00:30:15.220
 debt

00:30:15.220 --> 00:30:15.639
 forgiven

00:30:15.639 --> 00:30:17.179
 because he

00:30:17.179 --> 00:30:17.859
 asked to

00:30:17.859 --> 00:30:18.299
 be forgiven

00:30:18.299 --> 00:30:19.720
 just like

00:30:19.720 --> 00:30:20.299
 his friend

00:30:20.299 --> 00:30:20.960
 had asked

00:30:20.960 --> 00:30:21.299
 him

00:30:21.299 --> 00:30:22.079
 to be

00:30:22.079 --> 00:30:22.419
 patient

00:30:22.419 --> 00:30:22.839
 with him

00:30:22.839 --> 00:30:24.220
 so he's

00:30:24.220 --> 00:30:24.779
 being judged

00:30:24.779 --> 00:30:25.179
 on what

00:30:25.179 --> 00:30:26.119
 he's being judged

00:30:26.119 --> 00:30:26.659
 on this basis

00:30:26.659 --> 00:30:27.419
 that he doesn't

00:30:27.419 --> 00:30:27.799
 at all

00:30:27.799 --> 00:30:28.480
 reflect his

00:30:28.480 --> 00:30:29.019
 king at

00:30:29.019 --> 00:30:29.339
 all

00:30:29.339 --> 00:30:29.659
 right

00:30:29.659 --> 00:30:29.879
 there's

00:30:29.879 --> 00:30:30.139
 he has

00:30:30.139 --> 00:30:30.679
 no

00:30:30.679 --> 00:30:31.259
 there's

00:30:31.259 --> 00:30:31.899
 no sort

00:30:31.899 --> 00:30:32.079
 of

00:30:32.079 --> 00:30:32.659
 no way

00:30:32.659 --> 00:30:33.419
 to recognize

00:30:33.419 --> 00:30:33.559
 him

00:30:33.559 --> 00:30:33.720
 there's

00:30:33.720 --> 00:30:34.059
 no way

00:30:34.059 --> 00:30:34.519
 to recognize

00:30:34.519 --> 00:30:34.699
 him

00:30:34.699 --> 00:30:35.039
 in light

00:30:35.039 --> 00:30:35.279
 of his

00:30:35.279 --> 00:30:35.439
 king

00:30:35.439 --> 00:30:35.759
 he doesn't

00:30:35.759 --> 00:30:36.179
 look like

00:30:36.179 --> 00:30:36.279
 him

00:30:36.279 --> 00:30:36.599
 he doesn't

00:30:36.599 --> 00:30:36.859
 act

00:30:36.859 --> 00:30:37.139
 like him

00:30:37.139 --> 00:30:37.419
 he doesn't

00:30:37.419 --> 00:30:37.740
 talk

00:30:37.740 --> 00:30:38.119
 like him

00:30:38.119 --> 00:30:38.859
 nothing

00:30:38.859 --> 00:30:39.500
 he's not

00:30:39.500 --> 00:30:39.859
 like him

00:30:39.859 --> 00:30:40.240
 at all

00:30:40.240 --> 00:30:42.000
 which then

00:30:42.000 --> 00:30:42.479
 raises a

00:30:42.479 --> 00:30:42.899
 question

00:30:42.899 --> 00:30:44.359
 right

00:30:44.359 --> 00:30:45.079
 raises a

00:30:45.079 --> 00:30:45.359
 question

00:30:45.359 --> 00:30:45.639
 about

00:30:45.639 --> 00:30:46.119
 not the

00:30:46.119 --> 00:30:46.459
 king

00:30:46.459 --> 00:30:47.439
 but this

00:30:47.439 --> 00:30:47.839
 guy

00:30:47.839 --> 00:30:52.699
 and he

00:30:52.699 --> 00:30:53.079
 says to

00:30:53.079 --> 00:30:53.339
 him

00:30:53.339 --> 00:30:55.579
 shouldn't

00:30:55.579 --> 00:30:55.839
 you have

00:30:55.839 --> 00:30:56.479
 had mercy

00:30:56.479 --> 00:30:57.539
 just as

00:30:57.539 --> 00:30:58.139
 I had

00:30:58.139 --> 00:30:58.599
 on you

00:30:58.599 --> 00:31:00.259
 and of

00:31:00.259 --> 00:31:00.500
 course the

00:31:00.500 --> 00:31:00.859
 answer would

00:31:00.859 --> 00:31:01.039
 be

00:31:01.039 --> 00:31:01.719
 yes

00:31:01.719 --> 00:31:04.039
 just as

00:31:04.039 --> 00:31:04.839
 you received

00:31:04.839 --> 00:31:05.539
 you should

00:31:05.539 --> 00:31:06.159
 give

00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:09.860
 in

00:31:09.860 --> 00:31:10.220
 anger

00:31:10.220 --> 00:31:10.420
 his

00:31:10.420 --> 00:31:10.680
 master

00:31:10.680 --> 00:31:10.960
 turned

00:31:10.960 --> 00:31:11.240
 over to

00:31:11.240 --> 00:31:11.380
 the

00:31:11.380 --> 00:31:11.700
 jailers

00:31:11.700 --> 00:31:11.900
 to be

00:31:11.900 --> 00:31:12.279
 tortured

00:31:12.279 --> 00:31:13.320
 until he

00:31:13.320 --> 00:31:13.640
 should pay

00:31:13.640 --> 00:31:14.019
 back all

00:31:14.019 --> 00:31:14.200
 his

00:31:14.200 --> 00:31:14.759
 when's that

00:31:14.759 --> 00:31:15.000
 going to

00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:15.220
 be

00:31:15.220 --> 00:31:19.120
 never

00:31:19.120 --> 00:31:21.100
 right

00:31:21.100 --> 00:31:21.560
 because it's

00:31:21.560 --> 00:31:21.900
 already we

00:31:21.900 --> 00:31:22.420
 started that's

00:31:22.420 --> 00:31:22.620
 where we

00:31:22.620 --> 00:31:23.019
 started right

00:31:23.019 --> 00:31:23.279
 it's an

00:31:23.279 --> 00:31:23.820
 impossible

00:31:23.820 --> 00:31:24.320
 amount

00:31:24.320 --> 00:31:26.680
 and so

00:31:26.680 --> 00:31:27.120
 that's where

00:31:27.120 --> 00:31:27.680
 it ends

00:31:27.680 --> 00:31:29.519
 if it

00:31:29.519 --> 00:31:29.980
 ended

00:31:29.980 --> 00:31:30.920
 there

00:31:30.920 --> 00:31:31.400
 anyway

00:31:31.400 --> 00:31:32.380
 we'd be

00:31:32.380 --> 00:31:32.740
 we just

00:31:32.740 --> 00:31:33.080
 would have

00:31:33.080 --> 00:31:33.420
 a really

00:31:33.420 --> 00:31:33.720
 we have

00:31:33.720 --> 00:31:34.040
 a really

00:31:34.040 --> 00:31:34.500
 thoughtful

00:31:34.500 --> 00:31:35.099
 story

00:31:35.099 --> 00:31:35.900
 about how

00:31:35.900 --> 00:31:36.299
 we should

00:31:36.299 --> 00:31:36.859
 be forgiving

00:31:36.859 --> 00:31:37.779
 right

00:31:37.779 --> 00:31:38.480
 because we've

00:31:38.480 --> 00:31:39.019
 been forgiven

00:31:39.019 --> 00:31:40.220
 and if it

00:31:40.220 --> 00:31:40.759
 ended there

00:31:40.759 --> 00:31:41.539
 we'd have a lot

00:31:41.539 --> 00:31:42.059
 to think about

00:31:42.059 --> 00:31:42.619
 a lot to talk

00:31:42.619 --> 00:31:42.900
 about

00:31:42.900 --> 00:31:44.480
 but Jesus

00:31:44.480 --> 00:31:45.200
 doesn't end

00:31:45.200 --> 00:31:45.579
 it there

00:31:45.579 --> 00:31:46.579
 though

00:31:46.579 --> 00:31:47.420
 sometimes we

00:31:47.420 --> 00:31:47.980
 might wish

00:31:47.980 --> 00:31:48.339
 that he

00:31:48.339 --> 00:31:48.779
 had

00:31:48.779 --> 00:31:50.599
 because he

00:31:50.599 --> 00:31:51.079
 goes on to

00:31:51.079 --> 00:31:51.380
 make a

00:31:51.380 --> 00:31:52.039
 comment at

00:31:52.039 --> 00:31:52.500
 the end

00:31:52.500 --> 00:31:53.779
 where he

00:31:53.779 --> 00:31:54.119
 makes it

00:31:54.119 --> 00:31:54.519
 really really

00:31:54.519 --> 00:31:54.920
 clear what

00:31:54.920 --> 00:31:55.200
 he's been

00:31:55.200 --> 00:31:55.799
 talking about

00:31:55.799 --> 00:31:56.460
 and this

00:31:56.460 --> 00:31:57.059
 comment

00:31:57.059 --> 00:31:58.039
 is

00:31:58.039 --> 00:31:58.880
 can be

00:31:58.880 --> 00:31:59.539
 kind of

00:31:59.539 --> 00:31:59.900
 troubling

00:31:59.900 --> 00:32:02.140
 because he

00:32:02.140 --> 00:32:02.660
 turns to his

00:32:02.660 --> 00:32:03.119
 disciples

00:32:03.119 --> 00:32:07.379
 and says

00:32:07.379 --> 00:32:09.500
 this is how

00:32:09.500 --> 00:32:10.119
 my heavenly

00:32:10.119 --> 00:32:10.759
 father will

00:32:10.759 --> 00:32:11.579
 treat each

00:32:11.579 --> 00:32:12.059
 of you

00:32:12.059 --> 00:32:12.799
 unless you

00:32:12.799 --> 00:32:13.299
 forgive your

00:32:13.299 --> 00:32:13.739
 brother or

00:32:13.739 --> 00:32:14.159
 sister from

00:32:14.159 --> 00:32:14.539
 the heart

00:32:14.539 --> 00:32:16.699
 right and

00:32:16.699 --> 00:32:17.119
 that's sort

00:32:17.119 --> 00:32:17.519
 of the part

00:32:17.519 --> 00:32:18.019
 we wish

00:32:18.019 --> 00:32:18.759
 maybe Jesus

00:32:18.759 --> 00:32:19.119
 had just

00:32:19.119 --> 00:32:19.459
 kept to

00:32:19.459 --> 00:32:19.919
 himself

00:32:19.919 --> 00:32:21.719
 right or

00:32:21.719 --> 00:32:22.179
 before we

00:32:22.179 --> 00:32:22.399
 could just

00:32:22.399 --> 00:32:22.539
 be like

00:32:22.539 --> 00:32:22.879
 well yeah

00:32:22.879 --> 00:32:23.119
 I need

00:32:23.119 --> 00:32:23.319
 to be

00:32:23.319 --> 00:32:23.519
 more

00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:23.899
 forgiving

00:32:23.899 --> 00:32:25.119
 it'd be

00:32:25.119 --> 00:32:25.759
 better to

00:32:25.759 --> 00:32:26.079
 be more

00:32:26.079 --> 00:32:26.419
 forgiving

00:32:26.419 --> 00:32:26.919
 it's better

00:32:26.919 --> 00:32:27.159
 to be

00:32:27.159 --> 00:32:27.439
 forgiving

00:32:27.439 --> 00:32:28.339
 I've been

00:32:28.339 --> 00:32:28.839
 forgiven a lot

00:32:28.839 --> 00:32:29.379
 I should

00:32:29.379 --> 00:32:29.719
 be more

00:32:29.719 --> 00:32:30.039
 forgiving

00:32:30.039 --> 00:32:32.619
 and that's

00:32:32.619 --> 00:32:32.940
 kind of how

00:32:32.940 --> 00:32:33.220
 we would

00:32:33.220 --> 00:32:33.539
 deal with

00:32:33.539 --> 00:32:33.700
 it and

00:32:33.700 --> 00:32:34.500
 that'd be

00:32:34.500 --> 00:32:34.920
 okay

00:32:34.920 --> 00:32:36.039
 though we

00:32:36.039 --> 00:32:36.379
 could always

00:32:36.379 --> 00:32:36.839
 let ourselves

00:32:36.839 --> 00:32:37.159
 off the

00:32:37.159 --> 00:32:37.399
 hook

00:32:37.399 --> 00:32:37.819
 right if

00:32:37.819 --> 00:32:38.440
 you're me

00:32:38.440 --> 00:32:38.700
 I'm like

00:32:38.700 --> 00:32:39.000
 well I'm

00:32:39.000 --> 00:32:39.460
 mostly

00:32:39.460 --> 00:32:40.000
 forgiving

00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:41.659
 right I

00:32:41.659 --> 00:32:42.519
 mean some

00:32:42.519 --> 00:32:43.139
 people more

00:32:43.139 --> 00:32:43.700
 you know it's

00:32:43.700 --> 00:32:44.119
 easier to

00:32:44.119 --> 00:32:44.460
 forgive some

00:32:44.460 --> 00:32:44.799
 people than

00:32:44.799 --> 00:32:45.079
 others

00:32:45.079 --> 00:32:47.159
 but Jesus

00:32:47.159 --> 00:32:48.779
 sort of takes

00:32:48.779 --> 00:32:49.399
 that conversation

00:32:49.399 --> 00:32:49.740
 out of the

00:32:49.740 --> 00:32:50.180
 way for a

00:32:50.180 --> 00:32:51.579
 moment and

00:32:51.579 --> 00:32:52.180
 just says it

00:32:52.180 --> 00:32:52.680
 plainly

00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:53.819
 right this is

00:32:53.819 --> 00:32:54.440
 how my heavenly

00:32:54.440 --> 00:32:55.480
 father will

00:32:55.480 --> 00:32:56.220
 treat each one

00:32:56.220 --> 00:32:57.980
 of you unless

00:32:57.980 --> 00:32:58.639
 you forgive your

00:32:58.639 --> 00:32:59.259
 brother or sister

00:32:59.259 --> 00:32:59.619
 from the

00:32:59.619 --> 00:32:59.900
 heart

00:32:59.900 --> 00:33:01.359
 now

00:33:01.359 --> 00:33:05.779
 when Matthew

00:33:05.779 --> 00:33:06.220
 wrote his

00:33:06.220 --> 00:33:06.759
 gospel and he

00:33:06.759 --> 00:33:07.339
 includes this

00:33:07.339 --> 00:33:07.940
 parable right he

00:33:07.940 --> 00:33:08.539
 would have he

00:33:08.539 --> 00:33:09.279
 would have assumed

00:33:09.279 --> 00:33:10.579
 that this would

00:33:10.579 --> 00:33:11.420
 not be the first

00:33:11.420 --> 00:33:12.379
 time people heard

00:33:12.379 --> 00:33:13.319
 Jesus say something

00:33:13.319 --> 00:33:14.119
 like this

00:33:14.119 --> 00:33:17.220
 this is the third

00:33:17.220 --> 00:33:17.980
 time Jesus has

00:33:17.980 --> 00:33:19.279
 said almost this

00:33:19.279 --> 00:33:19.859
 very thing or

00:33:19.859 --> 00:33:20.660
 something similar

00:33:20.660 --> 00:33:22.559
 in Matthew and

00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:23.299
 the first time he

00:33:23.299 --> 00:33:24.379
 says it he says

00:33:24.379 --> 00:33:24.940
 it in a place

00:33:24.940 --> 00:33:25.420
 that's really

00:33:25.420 --> 00:33:26.480
 familiar and that

00:33:26.480 --> 00:33:26.879
 is in the

00:33:26.879 --> 00:33:27.299
 Sermon on the

00:33:27.299 --> 00:33:29.079
 Mount I'll just

00:33:29.079 --> 00:33:29.659
 read it for you

00:33:29.659 --> 00:33:30.639
 it's back in

00:33:30.639 --> 00:33:31.279
 it's back in

00:33:31.279 --> 00:33:31.939
 Matthew chapter

00:33:31.939 --> 00:33:32.439
 five

00:33:32.439 --> 00:33:51.559
 it's lost it

00:33:51.559 --> 00:33:52.000
 actually

00:33:52.000 --> 00:33:56.399
 oh sorry sorry

00:33:56.399 --> 00:33:57.039
 I meant to say

00:33:57.039 --> 00:33:57.779
 six that's my

00:33:57.779 --> 00:33:58.259
 thought six

00:33:58.259 --> 00:33:58.740
 six fourteen

00:33:58.740 --> 00:33:59.759
 six fourteen

00:33:59.759 --> 00:34:02.059
 for if you

00:34:02.059 --> 00:34:03.379
 forgive other

00:34:03.379 --> 00:34:04.299
 people when they

00:34:04.299 --> 00:34:04.839
 sin against you

00:34:04.839 --> 00:34:05.139
 your heavenly

00:34:05.139 --> 00:34:06.000
 father will also

00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:07.740
 forgive you but

00:34:07.740 --> 00:34:08.320
 if you do not

00:34:08.320 --> 00:34:08.820
 forgive other

00:34:08.820 --> 00:34:09.440
 sins your heavenly

00:34:09.440 --> 00:34:10.239
 father will not

00:34:10.239 --> 00:34:10.779
 forgive your

00:34:10.779 --> 00:34:11.400
 sins that's very

00:34:11.400 --> 00:34:12.800
 very similar sort

00:34:12.800 --> 00:34:13.679
 of similar idea

00:34:13.679 --> 00:34:14.920
 right and then

00:34:14.920 --> 00:34:15.840
 just right before

00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:16.460
 that by the way

00:34:16.460 --> 00:34:18.059
 in the in the

00:34:18.059 --> 00:34:19.759
 Lord's Prayer

00:34:19.759 --> 00:34:20.400
 forgive us our

00:34:20.400 --> 00:34:21.279
 debts as we also

00:34:21.279 --> 00:34:22.259
 forgive our debtors

00:34:22.259 --> 00:34:23.139
 right forgive us

00:34:23.139 --> 00:34:24.319
 and so you have

00:34:24.319 --> 00:34:24.940
 this idea it's

00:34:24.940 --> 00:34:25.599
 already there in

00:34:25.599 --> 00:34:26.879
 Matthew this idea

00:34:26.879 --> 00:34:28.239
 that the people of

00:34:28.239 --> 00:34:28.659
 God will be

00:34:28.659 --> 00:34:29.779
 forgiving if not

00:34:29.779 --> 00:34:30.539
 they're not

00:34:30.539 --> 00:34:30.900
 forgiven

00:34:30.900 --> 00:34:34.299
 so it sort of

00:34:34.299 --> 00:34:34.819
 sounds like this

00:34:34.819 --> 00:34:37.199
 right that God

00:34:37.199 --> 00:34:39.059
 forgives you as

00:34:39.059 --> 00:34:41.219
 long as you will

00:34:41.219 --> 00:34:41.819
 forgive somebody

00:34:41.819 --> 00:34:44.279
 else or that he

00:34:44.279 --> 00:34:45.759
 forgives you and

00:34:45.759 --> 00:34:46.519
 then says okay I've

00:34:46.519 --> 00:34:47.839
 forgiven you now

00:34:47.839 --> 00:34:48.500
 you're kind of on a

00:34:48.500 --> 00:34:50.500
 probation period and I'm

00:34:50.500 --> 00:34:51.099
 just going to see how

00:34:51.099 --> 00:34:54.199
 you do right now you

00:34:54.199 --> 00:34:54.940
 might immediately think

00:34:54.940 --> 00:34:55.780
 no that's not how it

00:34:55.780 --> 00:34:57.380
 works right that

00:34:57.380 --> 00:34:59.159
 makes sense but that's

00:34:59.159 --> 00:35:00.280
 kind of how it sounds

00:35:00.280 --> 00:35:03.760
 is that yeah okay we're

00:35:03.760 --> 00:35:05.179
 forgiven and now God

00:35:05.179 --> 00:35:06.380
 and God's like God

00:35:06.380 --> 00:35:07.420
 unconditionally forgives

00:35:07.420 --> 00:35:08.480
 us and then says all

00:35:08.480 --> 00:35:09.659
 right now I got my eye

00:35:09.659 --> 00:35:11.739
 on you and the first

00:35:11.739 --> 00:35:13.460
 time you mess up and

00:35:13.460 --> 00:35:14.079
 don't forgive somebody

00:35:14.079 --> 00:35:15.360
 you're out you're done

00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:17.920
 it could sound like

00:35:17.920 --> 00:35:19.059
 that I don't think

00:35:19.059 --> 00:35:19.760
 that's what it's doing

00:35:19.760 --> 00:35:20.580
 but it could sound

00:35:20.580 --> 00:35:21.680
 that way so let's

00:35:21.680 --> 00:35:22.680
 just think about it

00:35:22.680 --> 00:35:23.220
 for a moment

00:35:23.220 --> 00:35:27.280
 number one Jesus is

00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:28.980
 again teaching his

00:35:28.980 --> 00:35:31.260
 disciples what it

00:35:31.260 --> 00:35:32.160
 looks like or what

00:35:32.160 --> 00:35:33.060
 how they should be

00:35:33.060 --> 00:35:33.940
 what it looks like for

00:35:33.940 --> 00:35:34.760
 them to be his

00:35:34.760 --> 00:35:35.540
 disciples and his

00:35:35.540 --> 00:35:36.640
 disciples should be

00:35:36.640 --> 00:35:38.520
 forgiving just as he

00:35:38.520 --> 00:35:40.060
 is forgiving

00:35:40.060 --> 00:35:44.060
 so this is again so

00:35:44.060 --> 00:35:44.520
 he's not just

00:35:44.520 --> 00:35:45.100
 teaching everything

00:35:45.100 --> 00:35:45.740
 that could be said

00:35:45.740 --> 00:35:46.240
 about forgiveness

00:35:46.240 --> 00:35:46.940
 that's what he's

00:35:46.940 --> 00:35:49.200
 really after is he's

00:35:49.199 --> 00:35:50.699
 shaping and forming

00:35:50.699 --> 00:35:52.059
 them to be his

00:35:52.059 --> 00:35:53.799
 disciples that they

00:35:53.799 --> 00:35:54.859
 would be forgiving

00:35:54.859 --> 00:35:56.819
 others just as they

00:35:56.819 --> 00:35:58.460
 have been forgiven and

00:35:58.460 --> 00:35:59.779
 this is a sign that they

00:35:59.779 --> 00:36:01.000
 are his true his true

00:36:01.000 --> 00:36:01.619
 followers

00:36:01.619 --> 00:36:08.599
 the other thing to do

00:36:08.599 --> 00:36:09.559
 as we're looking at this

00:36:09.559 --> 00:36:10.219
 parable is just to

00:36:10.219 --> 00:36:12.000
 consider right is that

00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:13.579
 forgiveness from God

00:36:13.579 --> 00:36:14.799
 forgiveness for God is

00:36:14.800 --> 00:36:16.120
 for is for a debt that

00:36:16.120 --> 00:36:17.080
 we could never have

00:36:17.080 --> 00:36:19.300
 paid back and that

00:36:19.300 --> 00:36:20.360
 Jesus's death on the

00:36:20.360 --> 00:36:21.560
 cross is what has paid

00:36:21.560 --> 00:36:23.539
 for our sins and that

00:36:23.539 --> 00:36:24.900
 Jesus is speaking here to

00:36:24.900 --> 00:36:26.539
 people who are forgiven

00:36:26.539 --> 00:36:30.100
 yet he warns them and he

00:36:30.100 --> 00:36:31.160
 warns us right because

00:36:31.160 --> 00:36:32.080
 it's not just a story about

00:36:32.080 --> 00:36:32.780
 a warning to the

00:36:32.780 --> 00:36:33.940
 disciples right it'd be a

00:36:33.940 --> 00:36:38.280
 warning to us too but it's

00:36:38.280 --> 00:36:39.440
 spoken to people who are

00:36:39.440 --> 00:36:42.000
 his children to people who

00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:43.360
 are already his disciples

00:36:43.360 --> 00:36:45.679
 right Matthew is writing

00:36:45.679 --> 00:36:46.900
 this to to Christians

00:36:46.900 --> 00:36:49.739
 to people who are

00:36:49.739 --> 00:36:51.820
 confessing Jesus as Lord

00:36:51.820 --> 00:36:52.960
 so what's so what's

00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:53.880
 happening here so the

00:36:53.880 --> 00:36:54.800
 what I think is happening

00:36:54.800 --> 00:36:56.840
 here is Jesus is giving

00:36:56.840 --> 00:36:58.559
 them a warning so they

00:36:58.559 --> 00:37:00.219
 will understand the

00:37:00.219 --> 00:37:01.380
 necessity of forgiveness

00:37:01.380 --> 00:37:02.139
 the importance of

00:37:02.139 --> 00:37:02.920
 forgiveness and not

00:37:02.920 --> 00:37:04.099
 treat it as like icing on

00:37:04.099 --> 00:37:06.119
 the cake and in doing so

00:37:06.119 --> 00:37:11.579
 Jesus will save them he

00:37:11.579 --> 00:37:13.380
 will keep them he will

00:37:13.380 --> 00:37:15.359
 keep them this way by

00:37:15.359 --> 00:37:16.559
 warning them just like

00:37:16.559 --> 00:37:17.259
 earlier I was talking

00:37:17.259 --> 00:37:18.599
 about what warnings do

00:37:18.599 --> 00:37:21.500
 right so God preserves his

00:37:21.500 --> 00:37:24.440
 people and he does this

00:37:24.440 --> 00:37:26.139
 partially not only the way

00:37:26.139 --> 00:37:27.099
 but one of the ways God

00:37:27.099 --> 00:37:29.500
 preserves us is by warning

00:37:29.500 --> 00:37:32.559
 us about what happens if we

00:37:32.559 --> 00:37:33.940
 don't act and we aren't

00:37:33.940 --> 00:37:35.860
 like his children the

00:37:35.860 --> 00:37:37.579
 idea being that the true

00:37:37.579 --> 00:37:38.659
 people of God will hear

00:37:38.659 --> 00:37:40.619
 this and think I need to

00:37:40.619 --> 00:37:41.840
 take forgiveness seriously

00:37:41.840 --> 00:37:45.860
 I can't sort of mess around

00:37:45.860 --> 00:37:47.579
 here not because I need to

00:37:47.579 --> 00:37:49.579
 earn my forgiveness not

00:37:49.579 --> 00:37:50.639
 because God is like got me

00:37:50.639 --> 00:37:51.880
 on a short leash and he's

00:37:51.880 --> 00:37:53.200
 sort of forgiven me is like

00:37:53.200 --> 00:37:55.019
 like you're forgiven for now

00:37:55.019 --> 00:37:56.420
 but maybe later you won't be

00:37:56.420 --> 00:37:58.480
 forgiven the idea is the

00:37:58.480 --> 00:37:59.480
 idea is that the people of

00:37:59.480 --> 00:38:01.139
 God will hear this and be

00:38:01.139 --> 00:38:03.119
 forgiving because they

00:38:03.119 --> 00:38:03.880
 understand what their

00:38:03.880 --> 00:38:04.960
 heavenly father has done

00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:06.980
 for them and they will

00:38:06.980 --> 00:38:08.480
 also understand what he is

00:38:08.480 --> 00:38:11.319
 like and I want to suggest

00:38:11.319 --> 00:38:12.239
 to you is when you're

00:38:12.239 --> 00:38:12.839
 reading through the New

00:38:12.839 --> 00:38:13.779
 Testament and you see

00:38:13.779 --> 00:38:16.179
 warnings that's exactly what

00:38:16.179 --> 00:38:17.179
 the warnings are meant to

00:38:17.179 --> 00:38:19.619
 do it is God's gracious way

00:38:19.619 --> 00:38:24.079
 of keeping you to keep you

00:38:24.079 --> 00:38:26.420
 to continue on to persevere

00:38:26.420 --> 00:38:29.819
 God does that and he does

00:38:29.819 --> 00:38:31.019
 it through warnings just like

00:38:31.019 --> 00:38:33.059
 the way God saves you through

00:38:33.059 --> 00:38:34.739
 people preaching the gospel

00:38:34.739 --> 00:38:36.880
 and not apart from it right

00:38:36.880 --> 00:38:39.119
 just like the way God saves

00:38:39.119 --> 00:38:41.360
 people through evangelism just

00:38:41.360 --> 00:38:42.880
 like the way God works through

00:38:42.880 --> 00:38:46.460
 prayer it's not as though God

00:38:46.460 --> 00:38:47.679
 is not you know it's not as

00:38:47.679 --> 00:38:49.059
 though God is is thinking well

00:38:49.059 --> 00:38:50.019
 you know I would say that guy

00:38:50.019 --> 00:38:51.480
 if I could just get somebody to

00:38:51.480 --> 00:38:53.119
 speak to that guy otherwise I

00:38:53.119 --> 00:38:54.320
 can't save him of course God

00:38:54.320 --> 00:38:56.039
 can but God has chosen to do

00:38:56.039 --> 00:38:58.139
 what God has chosen to call us to

00:38:58.139 --> 00:39:00.239
 himself through the preaching of

00:39:00.239 --> 00:39:03.339
 the word through the gospel and

00:39:03.339 --> 00:39:04.619
 what I would say is the warnings

00:39:04.619 --> 00:39:07.519
 do a similar thing God has

00:39:07.519 --> 00:39:09.259
 chosen to if you will get our

00:39:09.259 --> 00:39:11.019
 attention in these warnings so

00:39:11.019 --> 00:39:12.719
 that we will continue on living

00:39:12.719 --> 00:39:15.759
 like his people now ultimately of

00:39:15.759 --> 00:39:17.519
 course yeah we need to say this

00:39:17.519 --> 00:39:18.839
 ultimately of course if somebody

00:39:18.839 --> 00:39:19.900
 would prove to never be

00:39:19.900 --> 00:39:21.299
 forgiving then it would reflect

00:39:21.299 --> 00:39:22.559
 back on whether or not they were

00:39:22.559 --> 00:39:23.799
 actually ever a believer in the

00:39:23.799 --> 00:39:26.539
 first place but if you think

00:39:26.539 --> 00:39:27.920
 about this think about again

00:39:27.920 --> 00:39:30.599
 again Jesus is not rebuking his

00:39:30.599 --> 00:39:32.099
 disciples here he's exhorting

00:39:32.099 --> 00:39:35.259
 them he's not sort of lecturing

00:39:35.259 --> 00:39:37.920
 them he's not mad at them he's

00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:38.920
 not angry at them he's not even

00:39:38.920 --> 00:39:40.099
 angry at Peter he's just answering

00:39:40.099 --> 00:39:42.239
 Peter's question so he's exhorting

00:39:42.239 --> 00:39:44.559
 them to live like those who have

00:39:44.559 --> 00:39:47.059
 been forgiven and his expectation

00:39:47.059 --> 00:39:49.440
 is this that people who have been

00:39:49.440 --> 00:39:51.099
 forgiven will hear this story and

00:39:51.099 --> 00:39:55.239
 respond in the right way and think

00:39:55.239 --> 00:39:57.759
 yeah yeah I've been forgiven

00:39:57.759 --> 00:40:02.019
 everything and yet I hold such

00:40:02.019 --> 00:40:05.979
 little things over people even

00:40:05.979 --> 00:40:07.619
 though I've been forgiven all

00:40:07.619 --> 00:40:09.459
 things and I think that's what

00:40:09.459 --> 00:40:12.079
 Jesus is meaning to do here right

00:40:12.079 --> 00:40:13.399
 he's not he's not just threatening

00:40:13.399 --> 00:40:15.119
 them right Jesus doesn't just

00:40:15.119 --> 00:40:16.679
 threaten you better forgive or

00:40:16.679 --> 00:40:19.479
 you're out that is not what's

00:40:19.479 --> 00:40:22.619
 happening here it's Jesus simply

00:40:22.619 --> 00:40:26.579
 saying my people will be like their

00:40:26.579 --> 00:40:29.900
 heavenly father who has forgiven

00:40:29.900 --> 00:40:33.179
 them everything and I think if we

00:40:33.179 --> 00:40:34.880
 can read it that way and we can

00:40:34.880 --> 00:40:37.319
 understand that God graciously gives

00:40:37.319 --> 00:40:40.859
 us warnings not threats but warnings

00:40:40.859 --> 00:40:43.799
 then we can receive those and then it

00:40:43.799 --> 00:40:45.359
 can be more we can take forgiveness

00:40:45.360 --> 00:40:48.820
 more seriously in terms of living

00:40:48.820 --> 00:40:53.099
 living together now I do want to be

00:40:53.099 --> 00:40:54.860
 clear about something about many

00:40:54.860 --> 00:40:59.160
 things actually sometimes people will

00:40:59.160 --> 00:41:00.120
 read a text like this about

00:41:00.120 --> 00:41:02.660
 forgiveness and there are people and

00:41:02.660 --> 00:41:05.099
 there's maybe people in this room who

00:41:05.099 --> 00:41:07.140
 you struggle every day to forgive

00:41:07.140 --> 00:41:09.400
 someone or people who have done

00:41:09.400 --> 00:41:13.559
 horrible things and sometimes people

00:41:13.559 --> 00:41:15.700
 who have suffered horrible things at

00:41:15.700 --> 00:41:17.880
 the hands of others are overly

00:41:17.880 --> 00:41:19.559
 pressured and all of a sudden the

00:41:19.559 --> 00:41:22.260
 pressures on them you need to forgive

00:41:22.260 --> 00:41:25.240
 now of course people need to be

00:41:25.240 --> 00:41:27.639
 forgiving but we want to be careful

00:41:27.639 --> 00:41:28.980
 that we don't read a text like this

00:41:28.980 --> 00:41:31.200
 and if you know or if you if you know

00:41:31.200 --> 00:41:33.240
 someone or maybe yourself have just

00:41:33.240 --> 00:41:35.740
 been have suffered just unspeakable

00:41:35.740 --> 00:41:37.320
 things at the hands of other people

00:41:37.320 --> 00:41:40.080
 Jesus is not saying to you you better

00:41:40.080 --> 00:41:43.820
 forgive them as though it's just like

00:41:43.820 --> 00:41:47.900
 a formula right that's not what's

00:41:47.900 --> 00:41:50.780
 happening here right so we sometimes

00:41:50.780 --> 00:41:52.780
 will take people who like horrible

00:41:52.780 --> 00:41:54.260
 things have happened to and then we'll

00:41:54.260 --> 00:41:56.840
 pile on top of them this sort of

00:41:56.840 --> 00:41:58.500
 responsibility that you better forgive

00:41:58.500 --> 00:42:01.820
 once and for all and finally right now

00:42:01.820 --> 00:42:06.580
 now not realizing that forgiveness might

00:42:06.579 --> 00:42:08.279
 be something that people have to come

00:42:08.279 --> 00:42:12.739
 to over time and maybe many times and

00:42:12.739 --> 00:42:14.619
 not just once like you just did it I'm

00:42:14.619 --> 00:42:16.179
 just done right just like everything

00:42:16.179 --> 00:42:19.420
 else we live by faith and we continue

00:42:19.420 --> 00:42:22.179
 to live that way and forgiveness is not

00:42:22.179 --> 00:42:24.340
 just a simple one-time thing and we

00:42:24.340 --> 00:42:25.920
 want to be careful we want to be

00:42:25.920 --> 00:42:28.619
 careful you know when people are in

00:42:28.619 --> 00:42:31.000
 particular situations where forgiveness

00:42:31.000 --> 00:42:34.099
 is next to impossible feeling we don't

00:42:34.099 --> 00:42:36.099
 want to make them feel like you know you

00:42:36.099 --> 00:42:38.019
 you might even be saved

00:42:38.019 --> 00:42:43.920
 unless you forget because it might be

00:42:43.920 --> 00:42:46.440
 their lifelong sort of persevering

00:42:46.440 --> 00:42:49.860
 struggle to do that and we're to walk

00:42:49.860 --> 00:42:52.799
 alongside them and encourage them not

00:42:52.799 --> 00:42:56.960
 keep a burden on them and so we want to

00:42:56.960 --> 00:42:58.799
 be careful we want to be careful when we

00:42:58.799 --> 00:43:00.559
 take a text like this that we don't sort

00:43:00.559 --> 00:43:04.099
 of then use it right to that we don't we

00:43:04.099 --> 00:43:05.619
 don't want to misuse it that's all I'm

00:43:05.619 --> 00:43:09.219
 trying to say right not with ourselves

00:43:09.219 --> 00:43:10.960
 not with others right we don't want to

00:43:10.960 --> 00:43:12.719
 take the edge off of it we do want to

00:43:12.719 --> 00:43:14.980
 encourage and obviously encourage in all

00:43:14.980 --> 00:43:16.340
 of us a life of forgiveness where we

00:43:16.340 --> 00:43:17.659
 look like our heavenly we look like our

00:43:17.659 --> 00:43:19.559
 heavenly father but you don't want to

00:43:19.559 --> 00:43:21.259
 take a text like this and then pile it on

00:43:21.259 --> 00:43:23.440
 as an extra burden on top of somebody who

00:43:23.440 --> 00:43:25.079
 is already living with maybe more burden

00:43:25.079 --> 00:43:25.699
 than they can bear

00:43:25.699 --> 00:43:30.719
 and remember it's God who judges the

00:43:30.719 --> 00:43:32.480
 heart and it's God who judges forgiveness

00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:35.859
 and what forgiveness looks like and

00:43:35.859 --> 00:43:37.259
 forgiveness might sort of look

00:43:37.259 --> 00:43:39.139
 differently depending on different

00:43:39.139 --> 00:43:43.859
 situations and so that's one thing the

00:43:43.859 --> 00:43:45.919
 other thing is Jesus is careful to say

00:43:45.919 --> 00:43:47.460
 forgive from the heart I think the idea

00:43:47.460 --> 00:43:49.599
 is that it's a new heart that has been

00:43:49.599 --> 00:43:51.639
 made new by Jesus's death and

00:43:51.639 --> 00:43:55.399
 resurrection it's a reminder in this

00:43:55.400 --> 00:43:57.059
 parable that our lives are a hundred

00:43:57.059 --> 00:43:59.880
 percent based on grace and so in other

00:43:59.880 --> 00:44:02.380
 words what it does is Jesus is talking

00:44:02.380 --> 00:44:03.920
 about forgiveness in a particularly

00:44:03.920 --> 00:44:08.320
 Christian way he's taking it out of sort

00:44:08.320 --> 00:44:09.840
 of the realm of the way the world might

00:44:09.840 --> 00:44:11.360
 talk about forgiveness in terms of I

00:44:11.360 --> 00:44:15.320
 forgive if right so you know what I mean

00:44:15.320 --> 00:44:17.599
 so in other words it's easy to forgive

00:44:17.599 --> 00:44:19.680
 people if we just sort of wait for

00:44:19.680 --> 00:44:21.019
 somebody to do something then like okay

00:44:21.019 --> 00:44:23.440
 but there's no like if somebody does

00:44:23.440 --> 00:44:25.240
 something I'll forgive he is showing us

00:44:25.240 --> 00:44:27.340
 what he's showing us what it looks like

00:44:27.340 --> 00:44:31.300
 to be recreated so that we're like our

00:44:31.300 --> 00:44:33.039
 heavenly father who has forgiven us all

00:44:33.039 --> 00:44:35.960
 things but I don't think there's some

00:44:35.960 --> 00:44:37.639
 sort of expectation that like why you

00:44:37.639 --> 00:44:39.800
 like wake up one morning like ah I

00:44:39.800 --> 00:44:41.659
 forgive everything that happens all the

00:44:41.659 --> 00:44:44.420
 time immediately that's not the idea

00:44:44.420 --> 00:44:46.639
 right because the idea would be we would

00:44:46.639 --> 00:44:48.400
 continually come back to this text and

00:44:48.400 --> 00:44:49.960
 read it and read it and read it and read it

00:44:49.960 --> 00:44:53.639
 not just a one-time fix because remember

00:44:53.639 --> 00:44:56.960
 Jesus is patient with his disciples I

00:44:56.960 --> 00:44:58.480
 talked about earlier how they they make

00:44:58.480 --> 00:45:00.179
 mistakes and it's really clear like we

00:45:00.179 --> 00:45:01.619
 do but you know one of the things Jesus

00:45:01.619 --> 00:45:03.699
 says he doesn't give up on them he

00:45:03.699 --> 00:45:05.679
 continues to teach them even when they

00:45:05.679 --> 00:45:08.139
 make huge mistakes and the same thing

00:45:08.139 --> 00:45:11.059
 for you right so you don't want to take

00:45:11.059 --> 00:45:12.380
 this text and all of a sudden turn it

00:45:12.380 --> 00:45:14.960
 back on yourself and be sort of defeated

00:45:15.519 --> 00:45:18.800
 by it so one of the things that happens I

00:45:18.800 --> 00:45:20.460
 think we see a text like this is we

00:45:20.460 --> 00:45:22.720
 come forgiveness starts by confessing

00:45:22.720 --> 00:45:24.539
 ourselves that we're not forgiving

00:45:24.539 --> 00:45:29.620
 it's not just oh you know woe is me now

00:45:29.620 --> 00:45:31.760
 there's more burden on me you turn to

00:45:31.760 --> 00:45:34.560
 God who does what who forgives sins so

00:45:34.560 --> 00:45:36.600
 step number one if you want to become

00:45:36.600 --> 00:45:39.360
 and I do if we do if all of us do want

00:45:39.360 --> 00:45:41.120
 to become more forgiving people step

00:45:41.120 --> 00:45:42.720
 number one is not just say all right I'm

00:45:42.720 --> 00:45:46.100
 going to be more forgiving I turn this

00:45:46.099 --> 00:45:48.819
 into a new work for me and I'm going to

00:45:48.819 --> 00:45:50.339
 show I'm going to prove that I'm a

00:45:50.339 --> 00:45:51.400
 Christian because now I'm going to be

00:45:51.400 --> 00:45:53.159
 more forgiving step number one is to

00:45:53.159 --> 00:45:55.259
 turn to God and confess you know what

00:45:55.259 --> 00:45:57.500
 Lord I have not been forgiving towards

00:45:57.500 --> 00:45:59.659
 this person towards that person or maybe

00:45:59.659 --> 00:46:02.920
 just in general that's always step one

00:46:02.920 --> 00:46:04.739
 why because we're turning to the God

00:46:04.739 --> 00:46:10.880
 who does what forgives so if we want to

00:46:10.880 --> 00:46:12.539
 become more like our Heavenly Father who

00:46:12.539 --> 00:46:15.339
 forgives we can never turn from him or

00:46:15.340 --> 00:46:17.320
 turn away from him we need to turn to

00:46:17.320 --> 00:46:20.740
 him constantly for forgiveness not just

00:46:20.740 --> 00:46:22.019
 forgiveness in the past when you got

00:46:22.019 --> 00:46:25.120
 saved but forgiveness every day because

00:46:25.120 --> 00:46:28.740
 he's the one who forgives right without

00:46:28.740 --> 00:46:33.460
 measure without weighing right he will and

00:46:33.460 --> 00:46:35.079
 if you've been struggling with forgiving

00:46:35.079 --> 00:46:38.820
 somebody or let's just say somebody over

00:46:38.820 --> 00:46:40.120
 and over again it's not as though you're

00:46:40.120 --> 00:46:41.180
 going to come to God and he's like you

00:46:41.180 --> 00:46:43.940
 know what this is the 50th time you've

00:46:43.940 --> 00:46:47.880
 prayed to me about that right I've had

00:46:47.880 --> 00:46:53.039
 enough just get it done that's not how

00:46:53.039 --> 00:46:55.760
 God is going to treat you God when you

00:46:55.760 --> 00:46:57.340
 turn to God in prayer he never looks at

00:46:57.340 --> 00:47:00.179
 you and he's like oh you again you know

00:47:00.179 --> 00:47:02.980
 we did this yesterday we've been doing

00:47:02.980 --> 00:47:06.820
 this for five years that's not that's how

00:47:06.820 --> 00:47:12.820
 we react but not God and so no matter how

00:47:12.820 --> 00:47:14.940
 much you might feel burdened by just an

00:47:14.940 --> 00:47:16.980
 inability to maybe forgive or extend

00:47:16.980 --> 00:47:19.500
 forgiveness to others turn to God with

00:47:19.500 --> 00:47:23.580
 that because he knows and he's there to do

00:47:23.580 --> 00:47:28.400
 what to forgive you so that you can be

00:47:28.400 --> 00:47:28.820
 forgiving

00:47:28.820 --> 00:47:36.539
 and so the last thing I'll say is this I

00:47:36.539 --> 00:47:41.640
 mentioned it before for us forgiveness is

00:47:41.640 --> 00:47:46.820
 continual and it's not perfect as we

00:47:46.820 --> 00:47:50.100
 continue on in the Christian life right it's

00:47:50.100 --> 00:47:53.300
 not perfect but we are being perfected in

00:47:53.300 --> 00:47:58.140
 Jesus and we just have to always count we

00:47:58.140 --> 00:48:00.460
 just have to always remember I just have

00:48:00.460 --> 00:48:05.080
 a way right my sins according to God and I

00:48:05.080 --> 00:48:07.280
 confess Jesus in Jesus this is true that

00:48:07.280 --> 00:48:08.580
 all of my sins no matter what they are

00:48:08.580 --> 00:48:11.400
 have been forgiven yet I can hold the

00:48:11.400 --> 00:48:17.539
 slightest little thing over someone and

00:48:17.539 --> 00:48:19.500
 not then compare it to and you put it in

00:48:19.500 --> 00:48:24.780
 the balance you can't even balance them and

00:48:24.780 --> 00:48:26.000
 so that's what I would want to leave you

00:48:26.000 --> 00:48:28.460
 with today as I close as you look at this

00:48:28.460 --> 00:48:31.900
 just just start thinking about all of us

00:48:31.900 --> 00:48:33.460
 need to start thinking about the fact that

00:48:33.460 --> 00:48:37.340
 it is the things often not the huge things

00:48:37.340 --> 00:48:39.599
 but often like daily things let's just

00:48:39.599 --> 00:48:42.260
 think about daily things not catastrophic

00:48:42.260 --> 00:48:45.179
 things the little daily things that maybe

00:48:45.179 --> 00:48:47.579
 we find so difficult to forgive

00:48:47.579 --> 00:48:53.139
 and put those in light of all the of what

00:48:53.139 --> 00:48:54.960
 we've been forgiven that is all of our

00:48:54.960 --> 00:48:59.400
 sins and then to give thanks to God for

00:48:59.400 --> 00:49:02.000
 his word that directs us back to him

00:49:02.000 --> 00:49:04.239
 because the thing that I when I was when

00:49:04.239 --> 00:49:06.779
 I was getting ready for this sermon the

00:49:06.779 --> 00:49:08.440
 thing that I kept coming back to as I was

00:49:08.440 --> 00:49:10.480
 looking at it was it kept pointing me back

00:49:10.480 --> 00:49:13.099
 to my absolute need every day of forgiveness

00:49:13.099 --> 00:49:17.099
 for before God and from God and that

00:49:17.099 --> 00:49:22.799
 without God's forgiveness me being a

00:49:22.799 --> 00:49:25.059
 forgiving person that's not going to

00:49:25.059 --> 00:49:28.380
 happen because I'm always going to forgive

00:49:28.380 --> 00:49:31.400
 if somebody kind of does the right thing

00:49:31.400 --> 00:49:35.159
 if you leave it up to me but God has

00:49:35.159 --> 00:49:38.719
 freed us God has freed you and God has

00:49:38.719 --> 00:49:41.219
 freed me that we don't have to wait for

00:49:41.219 --> 00:49:43.699
 another person to do like the right thing

00:49:43.699 --> 00:49:47.000
 we can extend forgiveness and you can

00:49:47.000 --> 00:49:48.859
 extend forgiveness and if they don't act

00:49:48.859 --> 00:49:51.279
 in the right way immediately and recognize

00:49:51.279 --> 00:49:52.919
 that you've forgiven them or that you're

00:49:52.919 --> 00:49:54.179
 treating them different that's okay

00:49:54.179 --> 00:49:55.539
 because you've been set free from that

00:49:55.539 --> 00:49:59.339
 you've been set free from having to rely on

00:49:59.339 --> 00:50:02.179
 how others act or even react to you because

00:50:02.179 --> 00:50:07.239
 you've been forgiven everything by God and

00:50:07.239 --> 00:50:11.539
 God no longer looks at you as a center let's

00:50:11.539 --> 00:50:11.939
 pray together

00:50:11.939 --> 00:50:16.959
 father I pray that you'll make this word

00:50:16.959 --> 00:50:20.539
 true in us hope it to be more than just

00:50:20.539 --> 00:50:23.039
 something we hear and then go about our

00:50:23.039 --> 00:50:25.859
 business we thank you for how gracious

00:50:25.859 --> 00:50:29.039
 gracious you are that you direct us and

00:50:29.039 --> 00:50:32.299
 even warn us and that you do so because you

00:50:32.300 --> 00:50:36.000
 love us and you want us to continue to grow

00:50:36.000 --> 00:50:38.900
 and mature in you until the day that we

00:50:38.900 --> 00:50:42.920
 reach heaven and we understand and realize

00:50:42.920 --> 00:50:46.160
 full forgiveness forever and we pray this

00:50:46.160 --> 00:50:47.320
 in Christ's name amen