Table of contents for Marriage Series
Sermon Notes - Marriage Series Forgiveness
MATTHEW 18:21-35
21 Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive someone who sins against me? Up to seven times?”22 Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times. 23 Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. 24 As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand bags of gold was brought to him. 25 Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he & his wife & his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt. 26 The servant fell on his knees before him. ‘Be patient with me,’ he begged, ‘and I will pay back everything.’ 27 The servant’s master took pity on him, cancelled the debt and let him go. 28 But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred silver coins. He grabbed him and began to choke him. ‘Pay back what you owe me!’ he demanded.29 His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.’30 But he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt. 31 When the other servants saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed and went and told their master everything that had happened.32 Then the master called the servant in. ‘You wicked servant,’ he said,‘I cancelled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. 33 Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?’ 34 In anger his master handed him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed. 35 “This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive a brother or sister from your heart.” TNIV
“Many of us struggle, not so much with understanding the message
of forgiveness, but with living the reality of it.” John Ortberg
FORGIVE THOSE WHO HAVE HURT YOU [following taken from message—Building Bridges #6—Journey of Hope]
Why Jesus calls you to FORGIVE
· Resentment & Anger & Bitterness doesn’t work
“To worry yourself to death with resentment would be a foolish, senseless thing to do.” Job 5:2 GNB
“It’s foolish to harbour a grudge.” Ecclesiastes 7:9 GNB
“You are only hurting yourself with your anger!” Job 18:4 GNB
“Bitterness is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.” Unknown
