035: Matt Norton – Forgiveness

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welcome to the good Christian
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more about this week’s talk This
week’s talk is by a brother Matt

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Norton.
It’s an evening program from the

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Midwest Bible School are trying
Bible School a couple years ago.

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It’s absolutely fantastic on
forgiveness.

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Matt has Philemon read before
which we cut out from the from

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the show, but then kind of
couches this whole conversation

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about how difficult it is to
forgive those who have wronged

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you and I had looks at it looks
at a few other examples.

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I’m involves our lord Jesus and
and but really again highlights

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the extreme difficulty of truly
forgiving someone when you have

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been genuinely wronged you can
set you can sense in his voice.

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Just how close this is to him.
And this seems to be very

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personal even though he does not
tell sharing personal stories

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and just very very powerful
talk.

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Okay.
Thanks.

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Bye the team.
How are we all brothers and

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sisters this evening?
That’s good.

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Good to hear.
Are you ready to answer some

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questions this evening where
we’re going to embark on a

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little discussion on that very
touchy subject called

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forgiveness.
And tonight we want to talk

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about our attitude towards
personal offenses.

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Okay, not dealing with a
collegial transgression.

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Where might have many many
meetings with a brother or

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sister.
And there’s a need for

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acknowledgement of sin and
transgression and wrong before

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there’s a reconciliation with
the Ecclesia.

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This is just our personal view
standing in your shoes looking

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out at somebody that’s offended.
You hurt you left you feeling

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bitter in some way.
We’ve all been hurt and offended

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by people in our past.
Haven’t we all of us?

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What about the mothers in the
audience the young mothers who

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have had their parenting skills
criticized by another parent or

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something?
That hurts doesn’t it or a

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colleague at work?
And they have sabotage your your

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project that you’ve been working
on or as we even said this

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morning and at this talk will
overlap a little bit this

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morning.
So I should know some of the

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answers to that’s that’s
helpful.

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What about if a brother said to
you that you’re not real?

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You’re not authentic that you’re
insincere and that hurts when

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somebody calls you a liar and
everything inside of you wants

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to justify yourself. see those
those feelings of hurt can leave

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lingering feelings of bitterness
and anger which even could lead

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to thoughts of Vengeance that
you want to get somebody back

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and tonight we want to talk
about In a perfect world OK in a

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perfect world.
I offend you I come up to you

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and say I’m so sorry.
I just can’t believe I did that.

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Please forgive me, and you would
be much more obliged to want to

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openly forgive me and let me go.
I happens in a perfect world.

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Do we live in a perfect world?
We don’t Dewey.

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We do not live in a perfect
world how often brothers and

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sisters does it occur?
Where somebody who offends you?

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Says that they don’t even need
your forgiveness.

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They don’t even acknowledge that
they did anything wrong towards

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you and don’t you dare can
condescend to forgive me.

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How do we go then?
What’s our attitude towards

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those type of people?
What is it?

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Are we willing to let them go
and for the purposes of

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tonight’s discussion.
Our definition of forgiveness is

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to let go now where did that
come from?

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We talked about that this
morning because I didn’t just

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make it up.
It suits the talks.

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I just made it up out of thin
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That’s a good example of it.
But the word for forgiveness.

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Let’s go to Matthew chapter 6
the word for forgiveness in the

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New Testament has the idea of
letting go when you look at the

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Old Testament word.
You got the idea of lifting

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which is even interesting in
itself because when you go to

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forgive somebody don’t just let
them go by.

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Oh I let you go.
I forgive you off you go.

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The idea is to lift the burden
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them now.
Hard isn’t it?

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But for tonight, we just want to
talk about letting go so if we

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go to Matthew chapter 6 will
have a look at that there.

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Are we ready to let go of those
feelings of resentment and those

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thoughts of Revenge in order
that we may treat our brothers

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and sisters correctly and
righteously.

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Now one reason forgiveness is
this will come to Matthew 6 and

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just a sec one reason for
forgiveness.

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Is this what does God say about
forgiveness?

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We’ll come to it right now.
Okay?

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Will thank you brother Dean, but
we’ll read it because I don’t

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want to embarrass anyone.
So where is it?

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Help me find it.
Matthew chapter 6 at the end of

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The Lord’s Prayer.
The only part that needs

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qualifying is the part that
involves us verse 14. for if you

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forgive others their trespasses
your heavenly father will also

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forgive you, but you might want
to Circle that but If you do not

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forgive others their trespasses
neither, will your father

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forgive your trespasses?
So this one incentive God is

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telling us Matt.
If you don’t forgive other

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people, I won’t forgive you.
So cunning map thinks I could

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use a ploy.
And as I can say to God, I

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forgave them God I let them go.
They hurt me a lot.

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They offended me.
And I let them go now.

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You’ve got to forgive me.
But that’s not how it works with

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our heavenly father.
We can’t use that as a strategic

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ploy to bind him so that he must
forgive us.

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I can say to God in humility
God.

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I have forgiven them as best as
I can now.

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You may you can you could
forgive me.

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Now think about those words.
I mean it’s chilling when you

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think about it.
And gods telling us that if we

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do not forgive others.
We will not receive his

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forgiveness.
Now have you ever asked

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yourself?
Maybe where did Christ if he got

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them from anywhere and I suppose
I think he did where did he get

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this idea from that if you don’t
forgive?

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I won’t forgive.
Could we find a place in the Old

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Testament where those principles
are embedded?

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Because Christ knew them to be
true, but it wasn’t like that

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until the time of Christ.
Nobody had ever thought of it

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those principles were in the law
to be learn.

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Anybody got any ideas where they
could be drawn from.

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That’s a good one.
I’ll give that a mark Dean but

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that’s not the one I was
thinking of, you know speakers

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are like they want their answer.
I know.

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Otherwise it makes it look
really bad.

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Okay, what’s in Leviticus 6?
Which sorry I’ll give that a

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tick as well.
Remember what we were talking at

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now.
I’m getting baracy remember what

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we were speaking about this
morning.

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The Year of Jubilee principle
remember that what’s the Year of

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Jubilee about let’s just go
through a little bit of

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revision. once every you got to
go free remember back to your

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clan back to your family back to
your land any debts gone.

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You weren’t allowed.
In fact your boss.

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Your master had to let you go
free and give you bountifully on

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your way out.
You were allowed to go free, but

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think about it.
When was The Year of Jubilee

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proclaimed?
On what day the year?

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The day of atonement.
So what was happening every year

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on the day of atonement?
People were being Let Go by God.

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God was forgiving their
transgressions their sins their

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iniquities every single day of
atonement and just once every 50

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years God required of us to do
no less you think about that.

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He’s telling us that if we don’t
forgive neither, will he he’s

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been forgiving us every single
year for 49 years and then just

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once on the If he says I want
you to emulate what I’ve done

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and let those people go free and
you know, the statistics are out

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if you think you’ve got a
justifiable reason why you

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shouldn’t let someone go and
your knuckles are white on The

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Grudge that you’re holding and
you don’t want to let it go and

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it’s become your identity.
Anyway, the statistics are

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outing and look on the internet
people that are able to let go

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and go through things not stop
but be able to reconcile more.

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Really have more friends are
happier live longer and Lead

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healthier Lifestyles with less
and less and less illness.

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God tells us he is a loving
heavenly father that loves to

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forgive.
He wants to forgive for his own

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benefit as well.
It’s only us that have the

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problem with forgiveness.
He wants Israel to approach him.

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He wants Israel to understand
that he’s righteous.

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He wants Israel to come close to
him as a father and as children.

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But you know what?
My problem is with forgiveness.

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Does anybody know what my
biggest problem is?

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Yeah, exactly.
I got a decent memory I have and

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so you come to me and you say oh
brother Matt.

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I’m so sorry.
I did that same thing against

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you again.
For the 40th time.

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I’m really sorry and I go I’m
trying to put my really angry

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face on.
All right, okay.

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I forgive you then not because I
want to and not because I even

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care about you.
But God’s told me that if I

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don’t forgive you.
He won’t forgive me. and that’s

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what I’m like and I remember
every other sin that you’ve done

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but we know that’s not how God
is is it What’s God say about

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our sins that we commit against
him?

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Did you say Micah?
I blotted out thank you for

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that.
That’s excellent.

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God forgets Micah chapter 7 says
that he casts our sins into the

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sea in Isaiah chapter 43 in
Jeremiah 31.

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It says he forgets our sins so
you don’t even remember them

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anymore.
And the straightaway us humans

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go.
Yeah, but you can never forget

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the feeling.
All this talk is about Direction

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and not attainment Perfection is
forgiveness.

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And we need some direction
towards that type of perfection

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and we want to forgive
wholeheartedly.

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We want to release our brothers
and sisters.

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We want to let them go we want
to forget we want to get over

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the resentment the bitterness
the hatred the anger the

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thoughts of Revenge.
We just want to get over it is

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hard for us.
We don’t want to make any

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excuses for ourselves.
Yes, but God says that he casts

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our sins behind his back and is
far as the East is from the

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West.
It’s absolutely amazing when we

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think about God’s forgiveness
for us.

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And you know what?
The problem is.

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We are into that cycle with God
don’t we and we have our own

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idiosyncratic sins the same sin
that we fall into time and time

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again, like what’s yours?
Would you tell me what it was?

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Is it Envy is it pride?
Is it that your cheat a little

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bit every tax time when it comes
around?

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gossip, perhaps bitterness What
is it malice?

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Are you nasty person underneath
does that nastiness just keep

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bubbling forth in the Ecclesia
that cutting remark.

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Whatever it is that scene that
gives keeps reoccurring in our

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own life.
We come back to God on our

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knees.
Sometimes we say them.

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So sorry Father.
I don’t want to ever do that

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again we go out and we do it
again.

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And we come back to the father
again.

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And we saved it happened this
time.

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It’s not ever going to happen
again and we go out and we do it

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again.
We all have those sins.

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Sometimes they even break us to
the point.

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We may have tears.
Maybe we’re too hard.

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We don’t have tears but
sometimes you may do.

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You come to the father for the
300th time and you say father I

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did that same sin again.
Brothers and sisters.

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I want you to hear this and I
want you to believe it.

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Do you know what God says to us
when we come to him for the

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300th time and we say I did that
same sin again.

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He says to us.
What’s in?

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What are you talking about?
You haven’t committed any sin

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against me.
Every time we come to him and we

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fall on our knees and we don’t
even remember the sins that

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we’ve committed but we say to
him.

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Look.
I’m so sorry for falling.

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I’m trying the best I can the
father says don’t worry about

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it.
Not only have I erased all your

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sins and I don’t remember any of
that you’ve done previous.

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In fact, what I’ve done with
your account is of credited it

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as far as I’m concerned you’ve
acted right only right always

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right.
You’ve only ever done right for

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me.
I don’t remember once that

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you’ve ever sinned against me.
Does that blow your mind?

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And yet that’s the same
forgiveness that freedom in

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letting us go they God wants us
to show to our brothers and

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sisters.
Is that hard I didn’t say it was

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going to be easy.
I’m listening to myself say

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these words to I’ve got people
in mind who I know they’re very

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difficult to forgive people who
you’ve had.

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Differences within the meeting
people where you walk down the

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aisle on a Sunday morning when
they see you coming.

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They turn their back they want
to shake your hand and you’re

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forced to walk past them.
You may have done that to

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another person.
You see them across the other

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side of the hall.
They turn away.

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They don’t want to any eye
contact with you.

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How do we forgive those sorts of
people?

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It’s almost like sometimes we’re
so excited that they won’t say

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sorry and they won’t repent so
that we can nurse The Grudge and

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we don’t have to let him go.
We feel justified in that area

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really Justified.
Knowing what God’s done for us.

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It’s worth thinking about
brothers and sisters every time

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our father forgives us.
He’s forgiving our first scene.

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That’s the power of His grace
and the extent of his Mercy.

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It does make us think a little
bit doesn’t it?

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These are difficult things not
only to talk about but very

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difficult to apply in our own
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I mean how many of us have
actually withheld forgiveness

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because the atmospheric pressure
wasn’t just right and you talk

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about it with your girlfriend or
your good friends, they’d look

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do you even think they were they
were sorry.

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They did sound.
Sorry to me.

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I mean the tone of their voice
that’s it.

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I’m not forgiving them.
Even had those conversations

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before so it’s difficult to let
go isn’t it?

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As I said, I didn’t say it was
going to be easy.

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But one thing’s for sure.
It’s something that we have to

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strive for in our life as much
as we’re striving for Perfection

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because our father said if you
don’t forgive and if you don’t

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Faithfully try as hard as you
can to let go of that I can’t

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forgive you.
Now, where would we go in the

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New Testament to find this
principle worked out in one of

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Christ’s Parables of a person
that just can’t let go.

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Where would we go for that?
Prodigal son.

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The Elder son is a good example.
That’s not the one I had in mind

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tell you what you’re good with
the answers tonight.

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That’s just wish you’d get the
right one.

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What’s that answer?
What’s he looking for now?

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Brian if I had lollies you’d be
getting the first one.

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That’s excellent.
Matthew chapter 18, we all know

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this but let’s just have a
little look at it for ourselves

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because honestly the detail is
horrifying when you when you

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consider it.
Matthew iodine got this wicked

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servant look at this and it’s
couched in terms of forgiveness.

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Peter comes up and says Lord
thinks he’s really generous.

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How often should I you know, my
brother offend against me sin

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against me and I forgive him is
7 times enough and the Lord

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gives that seven times seven
principle, which I forgot to let

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you know but I’m sure you filled
it in mentally that the jubilees

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based on that 7:00.
Times seven year principle every

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seven years slaves would let be
let go released and every seven

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times seven years the whole
nation had a collective Liberty.

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Isn’t that amazing it Peter says
look seven times.

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Is that enough and the Lord says
Seventy Times seven times.

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And he’s referring back to a
Daniel chapter 9.

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But then he says let me put it
this way Peter.

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The Kingdom of Heaven it could
be compared to a King who wished

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to settle accounts with his
servants and when he began to

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settle with them one of them was
brought to him.

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He owed him.
Going to take a breath before

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you say this 10,000 talents.
And he could not pay his master.

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And his master ordered him to be
sold and his wife and his

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children and all that he had and
payment to be made.

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So the servant fell on his knees
imploring him have patience with

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me and I will pay you everything
now.

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Just take a look at that for a
second.

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Does anybody know how much
10,000 talents has now?

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I can hardly teach English?
Okay, and I’m no math teacher.

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So I’ve got the I’ve got the
details written here.

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I’ll let you know one penny is
one denarii.

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That’s one day’s wage tick that
box you work all day.

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You get one.
Denarii.

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Remember the parable the
servants would you work for a

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penny a day?
And everybody said yes.

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One Talent is 6,000 day’s wages.
That’s 17 years just for one

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Talent.
So how much does this fellow?

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It’s scary doing nothing public,
isn’t it?

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a hundred and seventy Thousand
Years wages and this fool says

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I’ll pay it.
I’ll pay it.

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It’s his own life God’s couched
it in monetary terms.

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So you and I first of all we set
up and go I got got my

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attention.
Now, it’s money.

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It’s the back pocket.
I understand when you couch

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forgiveness and sin in the fence
in terms of money.

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We owe a hundred and seventy
Thousand Years wages and we say

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like the judeo eyes is don’t
worry God.

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I got this.
I’ll make it up.

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You don’t think we do that.
We do it all the time with our

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wives.
We sin against them.

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We say something nice.
T we have an argument and we on

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the scale.
We judge it we go on a scale of

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1 to 10.
I was about a five offense.

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So what we do is we go down to
the supermarket where the cheap

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flowers are and we buy the cheap
bouquet of flowers and we come

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home and we’re thinking five
offense.

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This is worth about seven.
There you go.

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Sorry love.
And we get irritated and mad if

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our seven which we supposed
gazelles the five best still mad

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with us and they won’t forgive
us and they won’t talk to us and

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now we feel offended and we miss
the point brothers and sisters

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that forgiveness can never ever
ever ever ever ever be bought.

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It can’t be demanded.
It has to be free and given

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graciously.
That’s why God says look, I just

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let you go.
I’ll let you go free.

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Of course all our lives we want
to make it up to him, but we can

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never make it up when you sin
against somebody.

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Of course.
You want to make it right?

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Of course.
You want to make it better.

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Of course, you want to heal the
breach but don’t ever think in

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your mind that you’ve done 10
extra things and now you’ve made

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it up and they should be nice to
it doesn’t work like that and

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yet all of us suppose that it
does.

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And this fool doesn’t even
understand the gravity of sin.

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He says don’t worry hundred
seventy Thousand Years wages.

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Got it covered.
That’s pretty frightening when

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you think about forgiveness in
those types of terms.

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It’s got to be free and
forgiving.

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And then he says in this Parable
this really gets to me.

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So he forgives him.
And it says so when the servant

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fell on his knees imploring him
have patience with me and I will

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pay you everything it look at
verse 27.

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This is this is God here.
This is God a depiction of our

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father our out of pity for him.
The master of that servant

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released him and forgave him the
debt and the you know what it

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releasing forgave me.
It’ll let him go now.

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Look what it says next.
But when that same servant went

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out, does anybody knows where
that phrase went out comes from?

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In the AV is I think it’s
depart.

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But if you were to go back to
Leviticus 25 on the Year of

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Jubilee the people who are
released and let go it says they

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go out they depart it means they
went out and they go out to

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their families out to their land
out into Freedom.

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Here’s a person who’s just got
his Year of Jubilee.

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He’s let go and he goes out.
But instead of going back to his

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family and rejoicing and
praising God and off to the

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temple and leaping and jumping
in Jubilation.

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He goes out and gets a and gets
a man.

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He found one of his fellow
servants who owed him a hundred

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Pence.
And seizing him began to choke

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him saying pay all you.
Oh now that’s a good symbol of

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forgiveness.
Isn’t it?

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Got him round the neck pain
mule.

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Yo, that’s a beautiful symbol of
holding a grudge.

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We do it all the time.
People nurse the garage like

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their favorite child and they
don’t want to let it go. hundred

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Pence you and I when we look at
the superficially we go a

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hundred Pence is nothing.
A hundred Pence if you want to

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know and thanks for asking is a
third of a Year’s wages.

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Now, I’m not good at maths as
you already know.

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So I’m just going to stick
around figures but let’s just

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say a median wage in a richer
area $60,000 a year.

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That’s 20 grand 20 thousand
dollars.

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This person owes you.
I like it because God God

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acknowledge.
Like if somebody owed you 20

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grand, would you just got I
don’t worry about it.

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It’s fine.
I’m looking for 20 bucks if

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somebody borrows it off me
$20,000.

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What are we going to do?
So God does acknowledge.

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There’s a debt.
There is an offense.

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God says I understand they have
caused you offense and he hasn’t

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minimized it because we can
understand $20,000 1/3 of a

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Year’s wages is huge.
Bot.

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Let’s just have a little bit of
perspective here.

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This is what this Parable does.
So his fellow servant fell down

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just the same dial as what he
had previously dud did done.

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Sorry.
That’s the word I’m looking for.

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I was teasing new zealanders
before about their vows and

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always comes back to bite you.
So his fellow servant fell down

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and pleaded with him have
patience with me.

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And I will pay you I will pay
you.

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And he refused and he went and
he put him in prison until he

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should pay the debt.
Now.

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Look at this next part this part
here, honestly, if you read it

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carefully and slowly.
It sends a chill down your

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spine.
You can hardly read it when his

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fellow servants saw what had
taken place.

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They were greatly distressed and
they went and reported to their

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master all that had taken place
and then his master summoned

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him.
And said to him you Wicked

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servant.
I let you go.

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I forgave you all that debt
because you pleaded with me and

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should not you have had mercy on
your fellow servant as I had

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mercy on you.
And in Anger now, that’s the

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chilling part our refusal to
forgive our brothers and sisters

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makes our heavenly father angry.
It makes him angry.

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And delivered him to the jailers
until he should pay all his

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debt.
So also my heavenly father will

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do to every one of you if you do
not forgive your brother from

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your heart.
Do you know where God forgives

437
00:28:42,600 –> 00:28:46,300
us from he forgives us from his
heart?

438
00:28:46,600 –> 00:28:49,600
He lets us go from his heart
from his mercy and from his

439
00:28:49,600 –> 00:28:51,600
compassion.
He actually it’s any of you

440
00:28:51,608 –> 00:28:54,500
wants to let us go.
He doesn’t like to hold grudges.

441
00:28:54,500 –> 00:28:58,300
It’s not even good for him.
It’s just simply not part of who

442
00:28:58,300 –> 00:29:02,200
he is.
Why is it part of us?

443
00:29:02,400 –> 00:29:04,200
Why do we want to hold on like
that?

444
00:29:05,000 –> 00:29:10,000
Why why why?
We should have compassion like

445
00:29:10,000 –> 00:29:14,400
this.
And we know what happens don’t

446
00:29:14,400 –> 00:29:17,600
we we’re so happy on a Sunday
morning.

447
00:29:17,600 –> 00:29:20,500
We come to the meeting and we
look at the emblems and we

448
00:29:20,500 –> 00:29:23,800
listened to the exhorter and
we’re brought in our minds again

449
00:29:23,900 –> 00:29:26,900
in direction to what the Lord
has done for us and we seen

450
00:29:26,900 –> 00:29:30,000
hanging there on the cross and
we think you went to that bother

451
00:29:30,400 –> 00:29:35,100
for me to pull me up in my life
to show me all the things that

452
00:29:35,100 –> 00:29:38,300
I’ve done wrong to show me a
better Direction and now because

453
00:29:38,300 –> 00:29:41,800
of you I have forgiveness and we
accept all the Forgiveness of

454
00:29:41,800 –> 00:29:44,200
Christ.
And all these love and grace and

455
00:29:44,200 –> 00:29:47,200
care and mercy and we accept all
that we praise God and we thank

456
00:29:47,200 –> 00:29:51,100
him and under our breast we say
but don’t expect me to do it for

457
00:29:51,100 –> 00:29:56,200
anybody else.
On the one hand.

458
00:29:56,200 –> 00:30:01,000
We accept Christ with all that
love and yet our hands our

459
00:30:01,000 –> 00:30:04,600
Knuckles are white.
In an effort not to show that

460
00:30:04,600 –> 00:30:07,800
same appreciation to other
brothers and sisters because

461
00:30:07,800 –> 00:30:11,700
we’re Justified, of course, they
always $20,000 third of years

462
00:30:11,700 –> 00:30:15,900
wages a hundred pants.
And we forget.

463
00:30:17,600 –> 00:30:20,400
That because of how much God has
forgiven us.

464
00:30:22,600 –> 00:30:29,400
We ought to forgive that small
tiny amount in comparison to

465
00:30:29,400 –> 00:30:32,800
that of that other brother or
sister.

466
00:30:34,700 –> 00:30:36,500
We fail to see it.
Now.

467
00:30:36,500 –> 00:30:40,000
Where would we go in the New
Testament to see this?

468
00:30:40,500 –> 00:30:43,400
We’ve looked at if you don’t
forgive I won’t forgive we saw

469
00:30:43,400 –> 00:30:47,200
the Old Testament Year of
Jubilee where we forgive other

470
00:30:47,200 –> 00:30:49,500
people on the same day that God
forgives us.

471
00:30:50,100 –> 00:30:51,900
We looked at Matthew 18 just
briefly.

472
00:30:51,900 –> 00:30:54,100
We hadn’t even considered with
just superficially look that you

473
00:30:54,100 –> 00:30:57,400
can see those ideas where that
models been brought at work.

474
00:30:57,400 –> 00:30:59,900
We see it brought out in real
life in the New Testament.

475
00:31:02,100 –> 00:31:10,300
When we got red this evening.
Do you say Philemon?

476
00:31:11,000 –> 00:31:16,800
Okay, Under Pressure now.
We’ll go to Philemon then.

477
00:31:21,800 –> 00:31:25,300
It’s terrible.
Okay.

478
00:31:26,600 –> 00:31:30,400
Now this if I try and start
saying Philemon, I’m going to go

479
00:31:30,400 –> 00:31:32,400
backwards and forwards and make
a mess of it.

480
00:31:32,400 –> 00:31:33,700
So I’m just going to stick with
Philemon.

481
00:31:33,700 –> 00:31:37,600
Okay, that’s the bad Australian
way of saying it.

482
00:31:37,600 –> 00:31:41,600
I apologize.
This letter to Philemon is

483
00:31:41,600 –> 00:31:46,300
Paul’s epistle and it makes a
case study of this principle

484
00:31:46,300 –> 00:31:49,200
that we’ve been looking at.
It’s the only private letter

485
00:31:49,200 –> 00:31:52,100
besides the third letter to
John.

486
00:31:52,800 –> 00:31:56,200
Does anybody remember which
other Epistles were sent out?

487
00:31:56,400 –> 00:32:02,900
time that the letter to Philemon
went Colossians and Ephesians

488
00:32:03,400 –> 00:32:06,900
and where did Paul write the
letter to filament from where?

489
00:32:08,000 –> 00:32:10,700
He’s in prison in Rome Shackled
to a soldier.

490
00:32:11,000 –> 00:32:13,100
He writes the letter to the
Ephesians the letter to the

491
00:32:13,100 –> 00:32:16,300
Colossians the letter to
Philemon a private letter and he

492
00:32:16,300 –> 00:32:20,600
sends it with the Hand by the
hand of Tajikistan and Anissa –

493
00:32:20,600 –> 00:32:24,200
now we all know who are nice
immerse is but let’s just we

494
00:32:24,200 –> 00:32:29,200
know what happened Anissa Miss
was that servant of brother

495
00:32:29,200 –> 00:32:35,500
filmin who lived in colossi and
Anita Miss appears has absconded

496
00:32:35,800 –> 00:32:37,600
and he’s run away from his
duties.

497
00:32:37,600 –> 00:32:41,100
He Slave he’s life was owed to
filament.

498
00:32:41,500 –> 00:32:44,500
He’s run away and we don’t know
what he’s taken with him.

499
00:32:44,700 –> 00:32:49,900
But by the tenor of this letter,
it’s evident that it was a

500
00:32:49,900 –> 00:32:53,600
difficult reconciliation.
So, who knows maybe he took off

501
00:32:53,600 –> 00:32:58,100
with the Family Jewels who knows
what he did but he’s fled from

502
00:32:58,100 –> 00:33:02,700
colossi across the Rome
ironically most of the cities in

503
00:33:02,700 –> 00:33:07,600
slavery finds the Apostle Paul
chained to a row.

504
00:33:07,800 –> 00:33:13,200
Owen Soldier But the irony is
that Paul is the freest man in

505
00:33:13,200 –> 00:33:16,200
Rome being in Christ and a nice
to mrs.

506
00:33:16,200 –> 00:33:19,000
Still slave to his own lusts and
sins.

507
00:33:19,900 –> 00:33:22,100
Why do you think he sought out
the Apostle Paul?

508
00:33:29,500 –> 00:33:32,900
Wouldn’t that just be reminding
him of his past now that he

509
00:33:32,900 –> 00:33:36,400
thinks he’s free, wasn’t he run
into freedom and never talked to

510
00:33:36,400 –> 00:33:40,100
anybody again that was relevant
to his history.

511
00:33:48,000 –> 00:33:52,600
Excellent point he knew Paul
story and how did he even know

512
00:33:52,600 –> 00:33:56,400
Paul?
He must have been there.

513
00:33:57,500 –> 00:34:01,200
On many occasions as the servant
making Paul’s room giving him a

514
00:34:01,208 –> 00:34:04,900
table a desk to sit at nice
bottle of water making sure he’s

515
00:34:05,100 –> 00:34:08,100
roles and parchments are there
when Paul visited he evidently

516
00:34:08,100 –> 00:34:12,100
stayed the filaments house may
be filled maybe a nice seamless

517
00:34:12,100 –> 00:34:16,000
was there when filament his
master first heard the truth and

518
00:34:16,000 –> 00:34:19,199
got baptized and became a
brother a significant brother in

519
00:34:19,199 –> 00:34:22,800
the colossi of closure.
We don’t know that there he is.

520
00:34:22,800 –> 00:34:25,800
He’s found the Apostle Paul now.
Look what happens when we read

521
00:34:25,800 –> 00:34:28,699
this Paul now, right?
This letter now, you know who

522
00:34:28,699 –> 00:34:31,600
you have to be when you read
this letter, don’t you you’ve

523
00:34:31,600 –> 00:34:34,500
got to be filament and you’ve
got to have a lot of resentment

524
00:34:34,500 –> 00:34:38,500
in your mind and you’ve got to
have all these raw memories of

525
00:34:38,500 –> 00:34:43,500
this this servant who has taken
off from you now returning with

526
00:34:43,500 –> 00:34:45,100
this letter from the Apostle
Paul.

527
00:34:46,199 –> 00:34:48,500
And try and think about these
words.

528
00:34:51,100 –> 00:34:52,400
Verse 4.
I thank my God.

529
00:34:52,400 –> 00:34:55,199
Always when I remember you in my
prayers because I hear of your

530
00:34:55,199 –> 00:34:59,200
love and of the faith that you
have towards the Lord Jesus for

531
00:34:59,200 –> 00:35:01,000
all of your Saints.
Now that’s important for

532
00:35:01,000 –> 00:35:03,900
straightaway.
The way Paul can commends him

533
00:35:04,500 –> 00:35:07,700
because the love that Paul uses
there is the Agra pail of it’s

534
00:35:07,700 –> 00:35:12,300
the love where this filament his
name’s based on just a brotherly

535
00:35:12,300 –> 00:35:15,100
love.
Paul says don’t you’ve got such

536
00:35:15,100 –> 00:35:20,500
a love that Christ had the same
type of life love rather that a

537
00:35:20,500 –> 00:35:23,700
person would lay down their life
for their friends and Brethren.

538
00:35:24,200 –> 00:35:27,200
That’s the love that I’ve heard.
You’ve shown to your brothers

539
00:35:27,200 –> 00:35:33,300
and sisters in the Ecclesia.
And I pray that the sharing of

540
00:35:33,300 –> 00:35:36,600
your faith may become effective
for the full knowledge of every

541
00:35:36,600 –> 00:35:40,600
good thing that is in us for the
sake of Christ for I have

542
00:35:40,600 –> 00:35:46,100
derived much joy and comfort
from your love my brother

543
00:35:46,500 –> 00:35:49,600
because the hearts of the Saints
have been refreshed through you.

544
00:35:50,700 –> 00:35:56,200
now accordingly Though I am bold
enough in Christ to command you

545
00:35:56,800 –> 00:36:00,800
to do what is required yet for
Love’s sake I prefer to appeal

546
00:36:00,800 –> 00:36:02,700
to you now.
Isn’t that interesting?

547
00:36:03,700 –> 00:36:05,500
Remember how we’re talking about
forgiveness?

548
00:36:06,000 –> 00:36:11,300
God commands it but you know
what he can’t make us forgive

549
00:36:11,900 –> 00:36:14,900
and he doesn’t want us to
forgive with our arms up behind

550
00:36:14,900 –> 00:36:18,900
our backs Zoom forgive them then
like we did our kids when we’re

551
00:36:18,900 –> 00:36:20,700
trying to get them to make up
with their brothers.

552
00:36:22,300 –> 00:36:24,200
It doesn’t work.
That’s not forgiveness.

553
00:36:25,900 –> 00:36:30,000
He could command him but I don’t
want to go there.

554
00:36:30,700 –> 00:36:33,700
I don’t want to command you I
prefer to appeal to in now.

555
00:36:33,700 –> 00:36:37,700
This is heavy-duty this letter I
Paul an old man, and now a

556
00:36:37,700 –> 00:36:43,000
prisoner.
Also for Christ Jesus I appeal

557
00:36:43,000 –> 00:36:46,100
to you for my child Anissa – are
you kidding?

558
00:36:48,200 –> 00:36:49,700
That’s slaver.
Nice immerse.

559
00:36:50,500 –> 00:36:52,900
You say your child.
How many children did Paul have

560
00:36:52,900 –> 00:37:03,700
in the truth?
Timothy was it just Timothy. and

561
00:37:03,700 –> 00:37:10,400
Titus And a nice seamless just
three he’s been elevated to a

562
00:37:10,400 –> 00:37:15,700
certain height here a certain
elevation of privilege, which if

563
00:37:15,700 –> 00:37:19,200
you which you are filament, it’s
a bit hard to take.

564
00:37:19,200 –> 00:37:22,600
It’s a bit Rich, isn’t it?
My son in the faith?

565
00:37:24,300 –> 00:37:27,000
Whose father I became in my
imprisonment formerly.

566
00:37:27,000 –> 00:37:29,500
He was useless to you.
But now he’s indeed useful to

567
00:37:29,500 –> 00:37:32,600
you enter me.
Now, you are thinking you know,

568
00:37:32,600 –> 00:37:35,200
that’s a play on his name.
Everybody knows that the niece

569
00:37:35,200 –> 00:37:38,800
of his name means useful and
industrious and you can imagine

570
00:37:38,800 –> 00:37:42,400
how he was sold at the slave
markets come and get this look

571
00:37:42,400 –> 00:37:45,300
at this strapping young lad.
What are useful man.

572
00:37:45,300 –> 00:37:49,500
He is and by G his name means
useful as well imagine the type

573
00:37:49,500 –> 00:37:53,900
of benefit and and and good that
could bring to your house.

574
00:37:55,100 –> 00:37:57,600
Coming by and fill a man can
hardly get his hands in his

575
00:37:57,600 –> 00:38:01,300
pockets quick enough.
He buys an SMS. It turns out to

576
00:38:01,308 –> 00:38:02,900
be useless.
Not useful.

577
00:38:04,500 –> 00:38:06,900
But Paul saying but he’s useful
to both of us now.

578
00:38:07,800 –> 00:38:10,900
Are you kidding me?
Are you kidding me?

579
00:38:12,400 –> 00:38:14,500
This is all a bit hard for me to
take formerly.

580
00:38:14,500 –> 00:38:18,000
He was useless to you.
You’re not wrong there, but I’m

581
00:38:18,000 –> 00:38:24,900
sending him back to you sending
my very heart. by Paul’s own

582
00:38:24,900 –> 00:38:28,700
heart I would have been glad to
keep him here with me in order

583
00:38:28,700 –> 00:38:32,100
that he might serve me on your
behalf during my imprisonment.

584
00:38:34,600 –> 00:38:38,200
Wow, but I wouldn’t do anything
without your consent in order

585
00:38:38,200 –> 00:38:40,600
that your goodness might not be
by compulsion.

586
00:38:40,600 –> 00:38:42,800
There it is again.
I don’t want to compel you.

587
00:38:42,800 –> 00:38:45,200
I can’t command you.
I mean I could command you but

588
00:38:45,200 –> 00:38:50,200
I’m not going to but if you own
a chord for this perhaps is why

589
00:38:50,200 –> 00:38:52,700
he was parted from you for a
while that you might have him

590
00:38:52,700 –> 00:38:55,800
back forever.
No longer as a slave.

591
00:38:57,300 –> 00:39:01,400
But more than a slave as a
beloved brother, especially to

592
00:39:01,400 –> 00:39:05,100
me, but how much more to you
both in the flesh and in the

593
00:39:05,100 –> 00:39:09,900
Lord and you think about this
Paul’s telling philomene now

594
00:39:10,200 –> 00:39:13,500
that when you receive a nice
team is back, it’s not as a

595
00:39:13,508 –> 00:39:20,200
slave that’s gone.
I honestly gets me riled.

596
00:39:20,200 –> 00:39:23,100
I try and be filament.
I imagine what I would feel like

597
00:39:23,100 –> 00:39:26,000
and that’s difficult to take
he’s telling me I could command

598
00:39:26,000 –> 00:39:29,700
you but I’m only appeal to you
and Union everyone hates being

599
00:39:29,700 –> 00:39:32,900
cornered don’t be but there’s
more to come that’s just this

600
00:39:32,900 –> 00:39:35,200
like half of it what Paul lays
on next.

601
00:39:36,100 –> 00:39:39,000
But he says he’s got to be a
brother and what does that mean

602
00:39:39,200 –> 00:39:44,000
for on-the-ground practically?
You only go to the meeting on a

603
00:39:44,000 –> 00:39:47,600
Sunday.
And a nice to mrs.

604
00:39:47,600 –> 00:39:51,900
Going to be sitting in the Hall.
Don’t not shake his hand as he

605
00:39:51,900 –> 00:39:56,200
walks down.
The aisle don’t sit on the other

606
00:39:56,200 –> 00:39:59,400
side of the occlusal hall and
have a nice him sitting on the

607
00:39:59,400 –> 00:40:04,100
other side or at the back.
He’s your brother and he Paul

608
00:40:04,100 –> 00:40:06,500
saying I expect you to treat him
as a brother.

609
00:40:08,000 –> 00:40:11,000
Always thought to be going
through filaments head all the

610
00:40:11,000 –> 00:40:14,400
practicalities the same
practicalities that you and I

611
00:40:14,400 –> 00:40:18,700
have to face when we’re met with
having to figure you’ve a

612
00:40:18,700 –> 00:40:23,000
brother or a sister that has had
a long-standing offense and

613
00:40:23,000 –> 00:40:26,200
breach with us.
How’s it all going to work?

614
00:40:26,300 –> 00:40:29,300
And what about my rights and my
place in the meeting and my

615
00:40:29,300 –> 00:40:32,900
privileges over yours?
And you’ve got to receive them

616
00:40:32,900 –> 00:40:36,800
back as a brother no longer as a
slave that owes you anything.

617
00:40:40,100 –> 00:40:43,200
If you consider me your partner
receive him as you would me it

618
00:40:43,200 –> 00:40:47,200
just keeps getting worse.
So filament looks at a nice

619
00:40:47,200 –> 00:40:50,400
image now who’s probably hiding
behind tissue kiss anyway.

620
00:40:52,300 –> 00:40:56,600
And says when I look at him, I
meant to see the Apostle Paul.

621
00:41:02,300 –> 00:41:05,200
If he’s wronged you at all or
owes you anything charge that to

622
00:41:05,200 –> 00:41:07,700
my account.
Are you serious?

623
00:41:08,500 –> 00:41:10,900
I’m writing this with my own
hand.

624
00:41:10,900 –> 00:41:14,300
I will repay it but I won’t
remind you all say nothing of

625
00:41:14,300 –> 00:41:19,100
how much you owe me even your
own self besides.

626
00:41:23,200 –> 00:41:24,900
Let’s just think about that
concept.

627
00:41:25,500 –> 00:41:30,000
So Paul says I acknowledge the
debt that he has to he may have

628
00:41:30,000 –> 00:41:31,400
absconded with the Family
Jewels.

629
00:41:31,400 –> 00:41:33,500
He owes you something.
I acknowledge that.

630
00:41:33,500 –> 00:41:38,500
I’ll tell you what filament you
put what he owes on my tab on my

631
00:41:38,500 –> 00:41:41,200
account.
I’ll pay you back but I won’t

632
00:41:41,200 –> 00:41:44,800
remind you how much you owe me
now.

633
00:41:44,800 –> 00:41:48,000
How could he say?
Oh is is owes him his own life

634
00:41:48,000 –> 00:41:50,000
besides.
How could he say that?

635
00:41:55,300 –> 00:41:59,600
Because without pull filament
was a dead man, Paul it brought

636
00:41:59,600 –> 00:42:02,700
filament to the truth shown him
Christ.

637
00:42:02,700 –> 00:42:06,700
He’d received forgiveness
because of Paul and Paul here is

638
00:42:06,700 –> 00:42:10,300
taking God’s place.
Do you think that ever be a time

639
00:42:10,300 –> 00:42:14,100
when filament would meet the
Apostle Paul and say hey Paul,

640
00:42:14,400 –> 00:42:16,800
you know about that debt that
you told me to put onto your

641
00:42:16,800 –> 00:42:18,700
account that a nice seamless
owes me.

642
00:42:18,700 –> 00:42:20,200
Can we settle that now?
Can you pay it back?

643
00:42:20,200 –> 00:42:21,600
Do you think that there ever be
a time?

644
00:42:23,000 –> 00:42:26,300
With filament would say that to
Paul never ever ever.

645
00:42:29,100 –> 00:42:34,300
Now that leads us to so many
thoughts come to mind now about

646
00:42:34,300 –> 00:42:37,600
how much we owe our heavenly
father our own life besides and

647
00:42:37,600 –> 00:42:43,000
that person that owes you
$20,000 that’s significant debt

648
00:42:43,000 –> 00:42:47,100
that that offense they got
acknowledges which God then says

649
00:42:47,100 –> 00:42:51,600
just put that on my account.
Just put it on my account.

650
00:42:51,900 –> 00:42:54,300
I’ll pay it.
Are we ever going to say that

651
00:42:54,300 –> 00:42:56,400
God now?
Can you pay that back to me?

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00:42:57,500 –> 00:42:59,800
Hundred seventy Thousand Years
wages.

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00:42:59,800 –> 00:43:03,700
In fact, you know what?
Here’s a happy way of looking at

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00:43:03,700 –> 00:43:06,900
a fence every time you sin
against me brothers and sisters.

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00:43:06,900 –> 00:43:08,800
You’re helping me pay back my
debt to God.

656
00:43:11,900 –> 00:43:15,200
Wow, I can only thank you for
the offense.

657
00:43:15,800 –> 00:43:19,800
I’m happy to let you go free
because you’ve assisted me now

658
00:43:19,800 –> 00:43:22,600
with how much I owe to God.
I’ve already told you we can’t

659
00:43:22,600 –> 00:43:23,800
pay it back.
We know that.

660
00:43:24,700 –> 00:43:27,400
But it helps us to understand
some of these Concepts.

661
00:43:31,700 –> 00:43:33,900
Yes, brother.
I want some benefit from you in

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00:43:33,900 –> 00:43:35,900
the Lord refresh my heart in
Christ.

663
00:43:38,400 –> 00:43:40,700
And you know what?
I’m feeling and I’m thinking to

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00:43:40,700 –> 00:43:42,000
myself.
Hold on a minute.

665
00:43:42,000 –> 00:43:47,500
Yeah.
And Paul, although he’s couched

666
00:43:47,500 –> 00:43:50,700
it in diplomatic language.
He’s telling filament.

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00:43:50,700 –> 00:43:54,600
You better let him go.
If you don’t forgive him, I

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00:43:54,600 –> 00:43:59,200
won’t forgive you.
He’s telling him you’ve got to

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00:43:59,208 –> 00:44:01,300
do it.
It’s not that subliminal is it

670
00:44:02,200 –> 00:44:04,900
and we’re thinking to ourselves.
Wow.

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00:44:06,400 –> 00:44:08,700
I’m philomon.
I think will Paul’s chained to a

672
00:44:08,708 –> 00:44:13,100
Roman soldier in Rome.
I can do whatever I want to do.

673
00:44:13,800 –> 00:44:18,100
But Paul he already pre amps
that and he says but confident

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00:44:18,100 –> 00:44:22,600
of your obedience verse 22 at
the same time prepare a guest

675
00:44:22,600 –> 00:44:24,900
room for me for I am hoping that
through your prayers.

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00:44:24,900 –> 00:44:29,400
I might be graciously given to
you so that verse in the epistle

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00:44:30,000 –> 00:44:34,800
for all filament new Paul could
be already traversing the

678
00:44:34,800 –> 00:44:39,700
Mediterranean on a At this very
moment on his way to colossi and

679
00:44:39,700 –> 00:44:43,900
so the potential and imminent
visit of the Apostle Paul was

680
00:44:43,900 –> 00:44:48,200
another impetus another
motivation for filament Aladdin

681
00:44:48,200 –> 00:44:51,900
easy must go do I need to spell
it out brothers and sisters that

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00:44:51,900 –> 00:44:55,500
Christ is telling us that I’ll
be here at any single moment.

683
00:44:56,300 –> 00:44:59,400
And if we from our hearts don’t
let our brothers and sisters go.

684
00:44:59,700 –> 00:45:02,400
I’ll be there soon by your
prayers.

685
00:45:02,400 –> 00:45:06,500
In fact, we’ll be bringing
Christ closer. dare any of us

686
00:45:06,500 –> 00:45:08,700
hold back that forgiveness and
when you know what we think to

687
00:45:08,700 –> 00:45:15,400
think of this imagine if we let
a brother or sister go That god

688
00:45:16,100 –> 00:45:20,100
holds responsible because they
are unrepentant and they won’t

689
00:45:20,100 –> 00:45:24,200
say sorry to you.
But you’ve let them go.

690
00:45:25,300 –> 00:45:29,800
And because you’ve let them go
because of your mercy because of

691
00:45:29,800 –> 00:45:33,600
your compassion and your grace.
Is it possible that we could

692
00:45:33,600 –> 00:45:37,200
even move our heavenly father to
let that person go as well.

693
00:45:37,800 –> 00:45:41,500
So that in our hands we have the
life and soul of our brothers

694
00:45:41,500 –> 00:45:46,000
and sisters and God lets us
every time we forgive to stand

695
00:45:46,000 –> 00:45:50,600
in his place.
We have the opportunity to offer

696
00:45:50,600 –> 00:45:54,400
to our brothers and sisters
every time we forgive them are

697
00:45:54,400 –> 00:46:00,000
many salvation.
Now that that totally amazes me.

698
00:46:00,600 –> 00:46:03,700
In fact, it’s the thought is
just so much and so hard to

699
00:46:03,700 –> 00:46:05,100
bear.
I don’t even want to hear it

700
00:46:05,100 –> 00:46:06,900
because I like grudges.
I want to hold on.

701
00:46:06,900 –> 00:46:11,300
I don’t like forgiving but
that’s what Paul is telling

702
00:46:11,300 –> 00:46:14,800
filament.
That epistle is really really

703
00:46:14,800 –> 00:46:19,200
heavy now just for a moment as
we are about to close just think

704
00:46:19,200 –> 00:46:23,700
in our minds back to the Year of
Jubilee just one more time and

705
00:46:23,700 –> 00:46:31,300
think about this and the day of
atonement say On the first year

706
00:46:31,600 –> 00:46:34,100
your father, you’re 17 years
old.

707
00:46:34,200 –> 00:46:35,500
Now.
I always get myself mixed up

708
00:46:35,500 –> 00:46:37,400
with the mouths of caves.
Don’t laugh at me.

709
00:46:37,400 –> 00:46:39,500
I mean, if you can love me, it
means we like each other.

710
00:46:39,500 –> 00:46:42,200
It’s okay.
So the first year after the last

711
00:46:42,200 –> 00:46:47,300
Jubilee your father out of
Disobedience didn’t follow the

712
00:46:47,300 –> 00:46:51,800
law didn’t go up to the
Tabernacle didn’t give his 10th

713
00:46:53,400 –> 00:46:56,600
and he wasn’t tithing for the
Levites and the crops haven’t

714
00:46:56,600 –> 00:46:59,500
grown.
And the family is reduced to

715
00:46:59,500 –> 00:47:03,400
poverty and dads come along and
said when you’re 17 years old

716
00:47:03,500 –> 00:47:08,400
son, we’ve got to go into
another tribe and we’re going to

717
00:47:08,408 –> 00:47:13,100
be Bond servants to another
family and you can’t believe at

718
00:47:13,100 –> 00:47:17,500
your heating 17 and you knew
that you could make it work on

719
00:47:17,500 –> 00:47:21,300
your land.
But you have to wait another 50

720
00:47:21,300 –> 00:47:23,800
years before the Year of Jubilee
comes around.

721
00:47:25,700 –> 00:47:27,900
And so you’re going to be what
is that 67?

722
00:47:28,700 –> 00:47:32,500
So this is the Year of Jubilee
and it comes around the 67th

723
00:47:32,500 –> 00:47:35,500
year of your life 50 years.
This is the Year of Jubilee.

724
00:47:35,500 –> 00:47:39,700
It’s the day of atonement and on
this day when God’s commands you

725
00:47:39,700 –> 00:47:44,800
remember to to whale to cry to
be afflicted to be upset because

726
00:47:44,800 –> 00:47:47,600
of all the sins that you’ve
committed all the sins in your

727
00:47:47,600 –> 00:47:49,800
life.
And in the in the nation itself,

728
00:47:50,200 –> 00:47:54,700
you come to the day of atonement
to the Tabernacle.

729
00:47:56,500 –> 00:47:59,300
It would be pretty hard not to
feel that Jubilation bubbling up

730
00:47:59,300 –> 00:48:01,700
inside you when today’s the day
you’re going to get your land

731
00:48:01,700 –> 00:48:03,300
back.
You’re going back home.

732
00:48:03,500 –> 00:48:06,300
You’re going to show you aged
mother and your aged father that

733
00:48:06,300 –> 00:48:09,300
you can make a go of this now,
you’ll be faithful you’ll do

734
00:48:09,300 –> 00:48:12,000
your best.
You’ll follow God your crops

735
00:48:12,000 –> 00:48:16,900
will grow today’s the day how
excited and happy with that man.

736
00:48:16,900 –> 00:48:22,200
Be see that man.
Represents for us the person

737
00:48:22,400 –> 00:48:26,300
that you’re going to forgive
that’s how happy and free and

738
00:48:26,300 –> 00:48:29,600
liberated another brother or
sister feels when we freely let

739
00:48:29,600 –> 00:48:33,500
them go.
But let’s flip the coin then and

740
00:48:33,500 –> 00:48:35,100
say you’re the wealthy
landowner.

741
00:48:35,500 –> 00:48:36,900
You’re the one with all the
money.

742
00:48:37,100 –> 00:48:39,600
You’re the one with all the bond
servants and it’s the day of

743
00:48:39,600 –> 00:48:42,300
atonement and it’s the Year of
Jubilee.

744
00:48:43,300 –> 00:48:45,600
Are you particularly that day
downcast?

745
00:48:45,600 –> 00:48:48,200
Are you really involving
yourself in the Affliction?

746
00:48:48,300 –> 00:48:51,600
Can you really feel it?
And your begrudgingly have to

747
00:48:51,600 –> 00:48:56,100
let them go.
You think about that?

748
00:48:56,400 –> 00:48:59,700
There’s the two attitudes.
I think just starkly contrasted

749
00:48:59,700 –> 00:49:04,000
for us and it’s easy to see I
can see myself in.

750
00:49:04,000 –> 00:49:08,600
Both of them been forgiven
having have not wanted on

751
00:49:08,600 –> 00:49:10,600
occasions to forgive a brother
or sister.

752
00:49:11,800 –> 00:49:16,200
Other occasions I’ve been free
and let them go and felt the

753
00:49:16,200 –> 00:49:21,100
health the happiness the smiles
and felt like that person who

754
00:49:21,100 –> 00:49:25,100
had the breach with me was even
a closer brother now than they

755
00:49:25,100 –> 00:49:28,800
ever were.
That it doesn’t always work and

756
00:49:28,800 –> 00:49:31,600
some of us are Justified for
saying well, it doesn’t matter.

757
00:49:31,600 –> 00:49:33,700
Anyway, if I forgive them, they
won’t reconcile with me.

758
00:49:33,700 –> 00:49:37,600
We haven’t got any control over
that have we we have not got any

759
00:49:37,600 –> 00:49:40,800
control over whether or not they
reconcile all we have control

760
00:49:40,800 –> 00:49:43,500
over is whether or not our
attitude is going to be free and

761
00:49:43,500 –> 00:49:48,400
forgiving and let our brothers
and sisters go like God does to

762
00:49:48,400 –> 00:49:52,900
us every day of atonement why he
does for us in Christ.

763
00:49:54,800 –> 00:49:59,200
And it helped me to reflect on
the manner in which I forgive

764
00:49:59,400 –> 00:50:06,400
and the feelings of Jubilation
and freedom that I can instill

765
00:50:06,700 –> 00:50:09,700
in another brother or sister
just because I lift that heavy

766
00:50:09,700 –> 00:50:13,500
burden of shame or guilt off
them and freely let them go.

767
00:50:21,700 –> 00:50:23,800
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00:50:23,900 –> 00:50:27,200
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