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[786.12 --> 786.86] I want my money. |
[787.02 --> 788.58] He chokes the servant |
[788.58 --> 789.42] and he says, |
[789.52 --> 790.72] pay back your debt. |
[791.56 --> 792.16] And that servant |
[792.16 --> 793.00] says the same thing |
[793.00 --> 793.70] the first one did |
[793.70 --> 794.18] to the master. |
[794.28 --> 794.42] He says, |
[794.48 --> 795.38] be patient with me. |
[795.44 --> 796.60] I'll pay it back. |
[797.60 --> 798.46] But he refuses. |
[799.30 --> 800.24] And he throws that servant |
[800.24 --> 800.74] in jail |
[800.74 --> 801.98] until he can pay the debt. |
[802.50 --> 803.58] And then word gets around |
[803.58 --> 804.50] among other servants |
[804.50 --> 806.00] who bring what happened |
[806.00 --> 806.86] back to the master |
[806.86 --> 807.74] and now I want to read |
[807.74 --> 809.10] for us the punchline |
[809.10 --> 810.02] of the whole parable. |
[811.94 --> 813.26] We read these words |
[813.26 --> 814.26] from the master. |
[814.50 --> 816.34] You wicked servant. |
[817.34 --> 818.98] I canceled all that debt |
[818.98 --> 819.28] of yours |
[819.28 --> 820.80] because you begged me to. |
[821.52 --> 823.00] Shouldn't you have mercy |
[823.00 --> 823.96] on your fellow servant |
[823.96 --> 825.38] just as I had on you? |
[826.38 --> 827.14] In anger, |
[827.24 --> 828.32] his master handed him |
[828.32 --> 829.12] over to the jailer |
[829.12 --> 829.74] to be tortured |
[829.74 --> 831.02] until he should pay back |
[831.02 --> 831.88] all that he owed. |
[833.06 --> 834.68] This is how my heavenly father |
[834.68 --> 835.78] will treat each of you |
[835.78 --> 837.22] unless you forgive |
[837.22 --> 838.12] your brother or sister |
[838.12 --> 839.40] from your heart. |
[841.76 --> 842.74] Yeah, I heard someone else |
[842.74 --> 843.88] make that same sound. |
[845.04 --> 846.76] That is heavy teaching. |
[848.32 --> 849.60] And these are the kind of passages |
[849.60 --> 851.18] we can just gloss over |
[851.18 --> 852.84] or just want to stay |
[852.84 --> 853.96] in the first half of. |
[854.66 --> 855.50] And I just want to say |
[855.50 --> 856.42] unequivocally |
[856.42 --> 857.94] that forgiveness |
[857.94 --> 859.56] for those who follow Jesus |
[859.56 --> 861.76] is not optional. |
[862.86 --> 863.60] This is not some |
[863.60 --> 864.80] take it or leave it ethic |
[864.80 --> 865.66] that you can take |
[865.66 --> 866.52] if you want |
[866.52 --> 867.80] or leave if you don't like. |
[868.10 --> 868.94] I find sometimes |
[868.94 --> 869.70] we can water down |
[869.70 --> 870.56] the teachings of Jesus. |
[870.72 --> 871.62] We can sort of ignore |
[871.62 --> 872.44] these hard pieces. |
[872.56 --> 873.28] But Jesus says, |
[873.74 --> 875.88] forgiveness is a serious command |
[875.88 --> 878.36] with serious consequences. |
[879.54 --> 880.20] And I'm going to quote |
[880.20 --> 880.80] Dale Bruner, |
[880.98 --> 882.68] a commentator I very much like |
[882.68 --> 883.90] on the Gospel of Matthew. |
[883.90 --> 886.24] And this is how he puts it. |
[886.48 --> 887.34] And this is in contrast, |
[887.50 --> 887.74] by the way, |
[887.80 --> 888.56] to the Beatitudes. |
[889.56 --> 892.24] Unblessed are the unmerciful. |
[893.46 --> 894.82] God is forgiving, |
[895.38 --> 898.14] but God is not mocked. |
[898.24 --> 899.56] That's quoting Galatians 6. |
[900.26 --> 901.20] Where divine forgiveness |
[901.20 --> 903.36] does not have human consequences, |
[903.58 --> 905.68] it becomes divine judgment. |
[905.96 --> 908.20] So serious is the teaching of Jesus. |
[908.20 --> 910.74] And I do think |
[910.74 --> 911.62] that in the church, |
[912.08 --> 913.10] we can be people |
[913.10 --> 913.72] who want to hear |
[913.72 --> 914.56] all the stuff |
[914.56 --> 915.44] of the first half. |
[915.76 --> 916.34] Thank you, Lord, |
[916.42 --> 916.98] for your forgiveness. |
[917.46 --> 918.84] Thank you for the Gospel of Grace. |
[919.00 --> 920.18] Thank you for canceling my debt. |
[920.36 --> 921.16] And we don't even want |
[921.16 --> 922.00] to talk about |
[922.00 --> 923.90] what that means for us |
[923.90 --> 924.66] in all the broken, |
[924.82 --> 925.64] fractured relationships |
[925.64 --> 926.32] of our lives. |
[926.46 --> 927.22] We aren't willing |
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