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Just this past week something caught my attention in the news.
You may have seen it yourself and read about it.
An act of forgiveness was seen.
Can you imagine forgiving the person who killed your own brother?
Well, that's exactly what happened in a Dallas courtroom this past Wednesday.
Police officer Amber Guyger was sentenced to a decade in prison for the murder of Botham Jean, and this young man’s family was there.
In a powerful expression of selfless love and mercy, Botham’s younger brother, 18-yr-old Brant, surprised those watching by sharing with Amber the only thing that could totally change her life forever.
Brant told her, "If you truly are sorry, I know I can speak for myself, I forgive you ... I think giving your life to Christ would be the best thing that Botham would want for you.
I love you as a person, and I don't wish anything bad on you.”
That's what the power of Jesus Christ can do in a life.
It is the power of forgiveness, The Bible tells us, “We love because he first loved us” (1 John 4:19).
The judge also gave Amber a priceless gift—copy of God’s Word, the Bible.
Forgiveness is a powerful thing.
We long to be forgiven and quickly embarrass the idea of being forgiven however when it comes to forgiving someone who has wronged us personally in some way it becomes more difficult.
We want forgiveness yet we don’t want to give forgiveness?
God has something to say about that.
Turn with me in your copy of God’s Word to Matt.
18:21.
By this calculation, 10,000 talents puts this person in debt roughly $14 billion dollars!
Even if he should pay $1,000 a day every day of his life, it would take over 3,800 years to pay back!That is a HUGE debt…it was a debt that was virtually impossible for him pay back.
Do you know what the point Jesus was making?
That you and I have a debt to God that we can never pay, it is called the sin debt.
Do you see what just happened, the king was the only one who had the power to great forgiveness of any debt.
So the king showed the man compassion and forgave him the debt.
What a great gift?
100 denarii = 100 days wages $10 an hour in wages - 100 days of 8 hour day labor = $8000.00
What is $8000 compared to 14 billion?
There is no comparison.
The man fell to his knees and begged for mercy because he couldn’t pay his debt.
Sound familiar?
Listen to what happened in the end of this story.
This man was forgiven so much, and yet he couldn’t forgive someone else for this little amount.
The point Jesus was making was that we have all been forgiven for so much by God.
He chose to love us and offer us forgiveness for sin.
If we have been forgiven for so much, how can we not forgive a friend or classmate or family member or anyone else for that matter who has done something wrong to us?
Forgiveness is always the best option.
It’s not easy to forgive others, but it is what Jesus commands us to do.
Even if the other person is not really sorry, we still have to forgive and give it over to God.
Remember, we should forgive others the way God has forgiven us.
In fact it is found in the very core of the Lord’s prayer when He taught us how to pray.
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