08/29/2026
The parable of the unforgiving servant... one servant owed his master 10,000 talents, which scholars put it around 200,000 years of a laborers wage! Basically impossibly to pay back. The master was going to sell him, his wife and his children and all that he owned to pay back some of the debt owed. Now the servant begged for mercy and the master had compassion on him and forgave him of all his debt!!
Now that same servant, that was just forgiven of his impossible debt, went out and found a fellow servant who owed him 100 denarii (which was about three months of labor) and he violently threatened him and threw him in prison until he should pay the debt.
So the master heard what this servant had done to a fellow servant over a petty amount when he had just been forgiven beyond what he deserved. He was called a wicked servant and the debt he couldn't ever pay was tacked back onto his account.
Jesus goes on to say "My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother." Matthew 18:35
We, who have accepted the merits of Christ's sacrifice on the cross for us personally, who trust we have been forgiven of a debt we could NEVER even begin to pay back. If you truly understand grace, we can then by God's grace give that same grace to others no matter what they've done to us. It may be hard, and yes they may not deserve it, but neither did we. That's the love of Jesus Christ.
“And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.” Ephesians 4:32
