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Show Notes
"Must We Forgive?" - Matthew 18:21-35
Outline:
- The Necessity of Forgiveness:
- Universal Experience of Hurt
- Human Nature to Cause Pain
- Consequences of Hurt
- God’s Solution: Forgiveness:
- Learning to Forgive
- Peter’s Question (Matthew 18:21-22)
- God’s Infinite Mercy
- The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant:
- Astounding Debt:
- The Accounting (23)
- The Amount (24-25)
- The Acknowledgment (26-27)Ephesians 4:32, reinforces the need to forgive as God forgives.
- Astounding Debt:
- The Awful Decision:
- Bitterness Consequences
- Interaction with the Fellow Servant (28):
- Begs for Mercy (29): The fellow servant’s plea and the lack of compassion shown.
- Brutality in Response (30): the servant showed no forgiveness with his harsh treatment of the one who owed him.
- Reflection on God’s Patience: If God were as patient with us as we are with others, would we be forgiven?
- Forgiven to Forgive: Emphasize that as recipients of God’s forgiveness, we are obligated to extend that grace to others.
- Awareness of Deliverance:
- Understanding Forgiveness in Practice
- Testimony to the Lost
Preached from the Pulpit of Ashland Street Baptist Church