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Introduction:
The forgiveness we need is more than we could ever provide.
Matt
10,000 talents!
One talent was about 6,000 denarii, 6,000 days wages.
This is an astronomical amount of money when you do the math.
60,000,000 days wages, not dollars, days wages.
As we have discussed before, parables don’t give all the details we would like to have.
How does a man acquire the kind of debt that would take 164,000 years to pay off?
Doesn’t matter.
The point is,
It is more debt than he could ever repay.
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Even his wife children and all his possessions cannot satisfy the debt.
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This is true for us also.
Our sin is so great there is nothing we can do to erase it.
We have nothing to offer God, which is not already His.
So what do we do?
2. We have nothing to offer God, which is not already His.
Our only option is to ask for mercy and forgiveness.
V26
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He fell on his face, putting himself completely in the hands of his master.
What did he have to lose?
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He fell on his face, putting himself completely in the hands of his master.
r sin.
He asked for forgiveness, knowing he could never repay what was owed.
It was a ridiculous request.
How do you ask forgiveness for a debt you could not repay in a lifetime?
Who does that?
He was forgiven completely by his compassionate master.
Matthew 18.
The master had no obligation to forgive.
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He chose of His own will to forgive, not because He believed the slave could ever repay his debt.
He knew the promise was an empty promise.
The slave could have worked 10 lifetimes and not even covered the interest on a debt that big.
We have to remember in parables Jesus is painting a picture.
The picture here is of a debt so great no human could ever repay it.
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The master is the only one who could forgive the debt.
I think, even the disciples, who have pretty thick up to this point, would have gotten this one.
Because of sin we owe a debt to God that we can never repay.
We could work 10 lifetimes and not even get close.
Our only hope is to fall to the ground and ask for mercy.
There is no sense in us bargaining with God.
“God, give me time and I will fix my sin problem.”
That is as ridiculous as saying, “Give me time I will repay 164,000 years wages.”
We can never repay the debt we owe.
Only God can cancel our sin debt.
Even the Pharisees understood this, because they had a fit when Jesus forgave sins.
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God is willing to forgive our debt of sin.
In fact, Jesus has already paid the price for us.
But, like this slave, we have to ask and accept God’s forgiveness of that debt.
Did you notice that the master did not requirement a payment or services for the forgiveness?
There was no pre-requirement to forgiveness, but Jesus goes on to say that there is a post-requirement.
Once we have been forgiven, we must forgive.
Vss 28-35
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The forgiven slave sought out someone who owed him a small sum of money.
i. Seized him and physically assaulted him.
i. Seized him and physically assaulted him.
I’m debt free.
Now it is time to get on the plus side.
Who owes me money?
Even his master had not done this to him.
This slave asked for the same forgiveness.
i.
This was a reasonable request.
This was a reasonable request.
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He even begged.
This was more than the man had done over his great debt.
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He refused to forgive this small debt and had him imprisoned.
V30
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His wickedness was exposed before the master.
V31-32
The master expected this man to forgive as he had been forgiven.
V33-34
V33-34
Just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you.
This is the key to this whole parable.
How can we not forgive others when we ourselves have been forgiven?
What can someone owe us that is so great we cannot forgive it?
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The unforgiving slave was given the same punishment he meted out.
Conclusion:
This parable has absolutely nothing to do with money.
It is all about the heart.
· What you have been forgiven far outweighs what you could ever forgive.
We have prayed thousands of times?
· – And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors…
· Someone once told me, “Unforgiveness is the poison we drink hoping the other person will die.”
· Knowing how great our sin is and how much greater, even, was the price Jesus paid for it, how can we not forgive others for whatever it is they have done?
Has someone said something to offend you?
You need to forgive it.
Has someone done something to you?
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