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Matthew chapter 18 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Matthew chapter 18. Let us pray.
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  Our Father, Our Father, Our Father, the whole world, every
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  land, every continent, every geographical place.
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  Our Father. You're a good Father.
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  You are in heaven. You're here with us as well.
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  You are omnipresent. You're everywhere, Father.
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  You see everything. You know everything holy is your
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  name. Let us keep your name, Holy
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  Father, I pray against those that take your name lightly,
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  those that blasphemy your name. Father, I pray that we will keep
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  your name holy. Pray for your Kingdom, Father,
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  to come on this earth. Lord, breakdown our Kingdom.
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  Breakdown the Kingdom that we're trying to build for ourselves on
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  this earth. Lord, I pray that you will
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  demolish and destroy it, God. And we pray for your Kingdom to
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  come. Lord, I pray that we can live in
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  light of eternity. I pray, Lord, that we will not
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  be selfish. Lord, I pray that we will not
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  just be puffed up with pride and be lovers of self and lovers of
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  money, lovers of pleasure. I pray we will not turn our
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  backs on you, God, for the pursuit of wealth.
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  Lord, I pray for your Kingdom to come.
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  We pray for your will, God to be done, Lord.
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  Not ours, not what we want, not life the way we think it should
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  go, God, but your will. Lord, let us get out of our own
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  way. We are acknowledging you and we
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  are believing. You're going to direct our steps
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  today. Lord, Your will come to this
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  earth, and your Kingdom come here just as it is there, as you
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  are planning it out, as you're going to prepare a place for us.
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  Bring it here to this earth, and let heaven touch earth.
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  God, let us be pure in heart. God, I pray that we'll see you,
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  Father. Lord, I pray that you will give
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  us Our Daily Bread today. Lord, I pray that we'll munch on
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  these scriptures. We'll munch on the bread of
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  life. We'll drink up the living water
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  today. Lord, I pray that you'll forgive
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  us for all the times that we have messed up and fallen short
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  and trespassed and sinned. Lord, I pray that we will
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  forgive others just as you have forgiven us, Lord.
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  Lord, we will not be stingy with our forgiveness.
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  We'll forgive those that haven't even asked us for forgiveness,
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  God. We'll extend grace out to those
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  that are still caught up in sin, Lord, that they don't even see
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  it. Lord, we'll extend it out to
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  him, Father. Lord, knowing that nothing that
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  they have done could ever grieve us as much as the sin that we
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  have committed has grieved you, God, and you have forgiven us,
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  so we extend that out, Father. Lord, I pray that we will be not
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  be LED into temptation. I pray that we will not be
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  tempted, Father, by the tempter and the accuser of the brethren.
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  God, I pray that we will do war today.
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  Lord, I pray that we'll go to war today against our flesh and
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  against the lusts and against the desires and against the
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  temptations. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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  that you'll increase our footprint.
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  Father, increase our tent stakes and strengthen them, Strengthen
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  the cords. Father, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus against the tares, God, I pray against the briars, God
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  that are trying to choke us out. God, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus, Lord, for a supernatural peace to come in to this camp,
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  surround us and form a hedge around us.
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  God of protection, deliver us, God, from all of the schemes of
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  our enemy, our adversary, deliver us, God, make us more
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  than conquerors today. Crush the head of rebellion.
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  Father, I pray for yours is the Kingdom and the glory and the
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  power forever and ever. Amen.
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  We'll start in verse one. At the same time came the
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  disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the
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  Kingdom of heaven? So you could see that they were
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  just coming down from the mountain of Transfiguration, and
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  they have driven out the demonic from the little boy.
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  And you can see that they've walked on into Capernaum.
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  And you can see that Peter has gone and paid the taxes.
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  And then it was at that same time, here comes the disciples,
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  and they want to know who is the greatest.
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  And Jesus is going to dismantle all of their puffed up pride
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  too. And Jesus called a little child
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  unto him, and he set him in the midst of them.
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  Jesus loves the little children. Here you can see how Jesus was a
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  man who was so kind, so passionate.
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  He was not scary. He was not somebody who
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  disfigured his face so that he would look hardened.
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  He was a kind man and he was the representative of God in the
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  flesh. We could see the heart of God
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  here, Friends. 3 And he said, truly I say unto you, except you
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  be converted and become as little children, you shall not
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  enter the Kingdom of heaven. What a statement.
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  When you become a blood bought, born again Christian, you will
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  understand this. You will know what it means to
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  be humble and have humility and think of others as better than
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  yourselves. You will not try to push your
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  weight around. You will not try to act as if
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  you were big and bad. You will be like a little child.
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  There is nothing that is scary about a little child and that is
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  what Jesus is saying. You must become like little
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  children. You must have the faith like
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  little children. They don't worry about if
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  they're going to be fed. They know that they're going to
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  be fed because their parents have their thinking about these
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  things for their little children.
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  And we must become like little children.
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  And that is how we will be when we give our lives to the Lord
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  and we're completely sold out, and we lay down all of the cares
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  of this life, friends, And we trust ABBA.
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  For whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little
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  child. The same is the greatest in the
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  Kingdom of heaven. So you can see here that it is
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  an upside down, inside out kind of Kingdom.
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  And the greatest shall be called the least, and the least shall
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  be called the greatest. And there are many who have
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  their reward here and now, but whenever they get there, it will
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  be as if they escaped out of a fire.
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  And there are many who are subsisting off of just rice and
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  polluted water. And there they will be called
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  the greatest and they will be greatly rewarded for their
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  faith. Friends, it's an upside down,
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  inside out kind of Kingdom when it comes to following after the
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  Lord God Almighty. And we need to understand that
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  yes, he can give us good gifts now and we can start to live
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  inside of the sphere of heaven now.
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  And praise the Lord, Hallelujah, He gives good gifts to his
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  children. But you need to know that heaven
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  will be the place where we truly come in to the fullness of what
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  God has for us here. We only get to see pieces and
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  glimpses of it, friends, and it's fleeting like a shadow. 5
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  And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name,
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  receives me. We need to have the faith of
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  little children. Yes, this is likened to small
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  children, but it is also likened to the believer who has humility
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  and is humble and thinks of others is better than
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  themselves. 6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones
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  which believe in me, it would be better for him that a millstone
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  were hung about his neck, and that he was drowned in the
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  depths of the sea. What a statement from Jesus
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  Christ Himself. He is saying to the world at
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  large that even if you offend one of these little ones, it
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  would be better than if you were never born.
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  For those who have been born and who died in their offenses and
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  they never received the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior, it
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  would be better for them if they had never been born, because
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  they're going to a place where they will be tormented.
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  And the worm never dies, and it is a death a billion times over,
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  and you could never die. 7 Woe unto the world because of
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  offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come.
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  Well, woe to the man by whom the offense comes.
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  Here we can understand that all of these things must happen, but
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  woe to the one whom they come through.
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  We can see that it's all adding up.
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  We can see that everything is moving according to the plan,
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  but it doesn't excuse the ones that are bringing about all of
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  the offenses that are coming into the world.
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  The offenses of false religion, the offenses of pornography, the
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  offenses of of the drugs, the offenses of all of the open
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  promiscuity friends, you can see it all around us.
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  We can see that whenever people lie and push their weight
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  around, we can see they get promoted.
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  We can see the greed. We can see how everything
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  rewards those that are sinful in this lifetime.
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  And Jesus said that it would be this way.
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  But woe to the one whom creates all these systems, Friends,
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  creates all of the applications that you put on your phone that
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  lead you down into the depths of hell.
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  Woe to them. They must happen.
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  But woe to the ones who created it.
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  God is using it for prophecy, but He does not excuse the ones
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  who thought about it and brought it into existence.
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  Therefore, if your hand or your foot offends you, cut them off
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  and cast them from you. Is better for you to enter into
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  life halted or maimed, rather than having two hands and two
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  feet and be cast into everlasting fire.
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  Verse 9 And if your eye offends you, pluck it out and cast it
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  from you, For it is better for you to enter into life with one
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  eye, rather than having two eyes and be cast into Hellfire. 10
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  Take that you despise not one of these little ones, for I say
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  unto you, that in heaven their angels do always behold the face
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  of my Father, which is in heaven.
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  You can see what the the writer of Hebrews tells us when he says
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  that angels are ministering spirits sent to protect those
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  that will inherit eternal life. And you can see it right here.
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  And Jesus is not telling us to actually cut our hand off.
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  Jesus is not telling us to actually pluck our eyes out.
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  And by the way, this is the second time that Jesus has
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  referenced this just in Matthew. And you can see that he means
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  what he says, that it is far better for us us to suffer now,
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  but to be welcomed into eternity than for us to have all of our
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  pleasantries now, but to be cast into hell forever, hell fire
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  forever and ever and ever and ever and ever.
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  It is like being burned and charred and wanting to die, but
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  you can't. 11 For the Son of Man has come to save that which was
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  lost. So here we can see that people
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  that are healthy do not need the doctor, but it is the sick who
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  need the doctor. He came to seek and to save
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  those that are lost. If you think that you don't need
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  God, if you think that you're holier than thou, if you think
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  that you're perfect and you don't need a savior, there is no
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  more saving for you. It is only Jesus and Jesus and
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  Jesus that's going to get us into the fold, friends.
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  And he says he came to seek and to save the lost.
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  We need to know that we're lost, friends, before we cry out for
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  help. 12 How do you think if a man have 100 sheep, and one of
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  them is gone astray, does he not leave the 99 And he goes into
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  the mountains, and he seeks that which is gone astray?
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  13 And if it if so be that he finds it, truly, I say unto you
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  that he rejoices more of that sheep than of the 99 that did
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  not go astray. 14 Even so, it is not with the will of your
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  Father, which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should
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  perish. We can see that there's more
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  rejoicing in heaven over the one Sinner who sees his need for
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  repentance than for the 99 who are sitting on their blessed
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  assurance and who think that their church attendance is going
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  to get them into heaven. Friends, we need to know that
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  we're lost. We need to we need to cry out to
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  Jesus and we need to reach out our hands and grab a hold of His
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  and let Him pull us up out of the muck and the mire.
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  We do not need to think that we are so good and we have been
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  perfected and that we have arrived somehow.
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  If you have breath in your lungs, you have need for the
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  Savior. Friends cry out to Him. 15
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  Moreover, if your brother shall trespass against you, go and
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  tell him his fault between you and him alone.
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  If he shall hear you, you have gained your brother. 16 But if
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  he will not hear you, then take with you one or two more, that
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  in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be
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  established. 17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it
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  unto the church. But if he neglect to hear the
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  church, let him be unto you as a heathen man and as a publican.
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  18 Truly I say unto you, Whatever you shall bind on earth
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  shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever you shall loose on
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  earth shall be loosed in heaven. 19 And again I say unto you,
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  that if 2 of you shall agree on earth, as touching anything,
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  that shall, that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my
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  father which is in heaven. This is discipline in the future
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  church to come. This is where Paul would have
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  went, and whenever he was writing to Timothy and telling
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  him how the church should look in all of the ways that the
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  church should be structured, it was bringing out verses 15
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  through 19. And you can see this binding and
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  losing, and you can see when we're praying the will of the
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  Father that these things are happening around us.
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  When you're truly in touch with the Lord God Almighty, you will
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  hear His heart, and those will become your prayers, and that's
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  when you get to see things truly happen all around you. 20 For
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  where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am
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  in the midst of them. This is the simplest form of the
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  local church. And you can see that Jesus's
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  heart was for the future church that he had established with
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  Peter all the way back there and promised that the gates of hell
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  would never prevail against it. And this is where you can see
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  the structure of the church, where two or three are gathered
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  together. This is the most simple form of
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  the uppercase C church friends, the called out ones.
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  It's not about numbers, friends. Jesus turned the whole world
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  upside down with 12 men. 21 And then came Peter to him and said,
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  Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive
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  him? Till 7 times.
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  Peter thought that he was so super spiritual.
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  He thought that he was superseding with all the
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  Pharisees and all the Sadducees and all the religious people of
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  the time. They were saying up to three
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  times. And here Peter thinks 7 times is
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  very. Is Peter is sitting here
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  thinking that the seven times would be abundant and Jesus is
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  going to knock him down a peg and he's going to get him to
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  understand the heart of God here, friends 22 Jesus said unto
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  him, I say not unto you until 7 times, but until 70 * 7.
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  Wow, what a thought. This is not a numerical number.
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  This is unlimited. If there's breath in your lungs,
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  then God's not done with you. When we take our final breath,
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  there is no second chances. But if you woke up today and you
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  have breath in your lungs. Then you have another chance,
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  friends, and aren't you glad that God is a God of unlimited
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  chances, as long as there's breath in our lungs?
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  23 Therefore is the Kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain
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  king, which would take account of his servants. 24 And when he
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  had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him
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  10,000 talents. This would be modern day a
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  billion dollars. Friends, he owed his master a
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  billion dollars. In our financial world, just
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  imagine this lock in and pay attention to what Jesus is
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  trying to teach us and what he was telling Peter who thought
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  that it was sufficient for seven times.
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  And here Jesus is going to show Peter the heart of God towards
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  us. He owed him a billion dollars,
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  25 But for as much as he had not to pay, his Lord commanded him
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  to be sold, and his wife and his children and all that he had,
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  and payment to be made. This was a payment that could
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  never be paid back. How he was able to rack up that
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  much debt is beyond understanding.
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  Perhaps the King thought that he had the ability to be able to
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  make that much and more with whatever venture he had set out
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  on and somehow something had went awry and he was not able to
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  pay it back. And the king here is wanting his
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  billion dollar investment back, his return on investments.
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  Let's see what he has to say. He's throwing his wife and his
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  kids and him into prison and he's going to put him into the
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  indentured servant. He's going to put him into the
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  work camp. He's going to get him to work
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  off his debt that he could never repay.
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  And this is what it looks like. Our sin was something we could
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  never pay back. There was something within our
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  sin nature that we could never ever make right.
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  We could never atone for our own sins.
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  We could never work our way into heaven, friends.
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  And that is what Jesus is showing. 26 And the servant
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  therefore fell face down, and he worshipped him, saying, Lord,
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  have patience with me, and I will pay you all. 27 Then the
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  Lord of that servant was moved with compassion and loosed him,
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  and forgave him the debt. This is what it looks like when
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  we come to Jesus. This is what it looks like when
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  we admit that we're a Sinner. This is what it looks like when
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  we admit that we need a savior and we can never save ourselves
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  from our own sinful behavior and nature.
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  And Jesus is moved with compassion, and he says, I
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  forgive you, forgive you, but go and sin no more. 28 But the same
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  servant went out, and he found one of his fellow servants,
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  which owed him 100 pence, And he laid hands on him, and took him
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  by the throat, saying, Pay me what you owe.
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  So here is this wicked servant who has received this
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  forgiveness of a billion dollars and here this guy owes him
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  around about $10,000 an hour time and he's saying pay me back
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  the 10,000 that you owe and he's throttling his throat here
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  friends 29 And his fellow servant fell down at his feet
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  and begged him saying have patience with me and I will pay
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  it all. This is the same response that
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  this wicked servant had towards the king that he had towards his
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  debtor. And he had so much compassion
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  upon him that he forgave a billion dollar debt, didn't even
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  make him come up with some kind of payment plan.
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  He just forgave him the billion dollar debt.
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  And that's what God does for us. And then what do we do?
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  We turn around and find somebody who has offended us, find
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  somebody who has wronged us and we've refused to forgive them of
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  their little $10,000 debt. And it's not about the money,
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  friends. It's the principle behind what
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  Jesus is trying to show us, that there is nothing that man could
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  ever do to you, friend, that would even equate to the amount
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  that you owed God. And for what is to come of you
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  either in heaven or in hell. For those of us who have placed
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  our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, it is there is no
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  comparison to what is to come. But for those who refuse him,
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  there is no comparison here to what is to come.
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  Friends. And we would do well to keep
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  these things in our minds. 30 And he would not.
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  And he went and cast him into prison until he should pay the
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  debt. The prison is the prison that he
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  is formed around his own self of unforgiveness.
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  You, believer, have been forgiven of all of your sins,
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  but when you have unforgiveness in your heart, it is a prison
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  wrapped around you. 31 So when his fellow servants saw what was
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  done, they were very sorry and came and told unto their Lord
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  all that was done. So it wasn't even the person
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  that was thrown into the prison. It wasn't even the person who
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  was forgiven of the billion dollar debt.
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  It was those that were looking upon the situation that felt
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  sorry and went and told the Lord.
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  And this is what happens whenever people that were
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  supposed to be witnesses to when they see that your walk with the
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  Lord, you are stumbling. It is a stumbling block to them
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  friends. 32 Then his Lord after that he had called him, and he
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  said unto him, Oh, you wicked servant, I forgave you all that
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  debt because you desired me. 33 Should not you also have
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  compassion on your fellow servant, even as I had pity on
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  you? 34 And his Lord was wroth, and
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  delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all that was
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  due unto him. This is the prison that the
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  unforgiving form around themselves.
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  It is torment here on this earth.
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  And if they are to die without receiving the forgiveness of the
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  Lord Jesus Christ through the blood of the sacrifice, and if
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  they do not put on that blood and enter into the throne room
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  of God, covered by the blood of Jesus, the forgiveness that
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  makes them white as snow, they will be cast into the lake of
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  fire. They will be cast into hell
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  where there is the torment. Friends, what a spin for old
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  Peter when he just thought 7 times would be enough.
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  Hear. Jesus accurately shows Peter and
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  He shows us what it looks like when God Forgives us.
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  It's not a small thing friends. And so when you live in light of
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  that, it's easy to forgive those who wronged you.
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  It's easy to have joy in your heart, even though there are
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  those who got over on you. Will end on 35.
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  So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if you
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  from your hearts forgive not everyone, His brother, their
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  trespasses. It's in the model prayer.
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  It's in the Lord's Prayer. Forgive us our trespasses as we
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  forgive those who trespass against us.
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  How can you expect to receive forgiveness when you refuse to
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  forgive those that have wronged you and hurt you?
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  What a beautiful chapter this has been.
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  What a beautiful journey this has been.
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  Somehow this old bus of ours has sprouted wings and it's gone up
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  into the clouds here, friends. So school buses flying high.
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  I hope you've been blessed by this chapter here and Matthew.
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  I know I sure have. I love you.
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  I'm praying for you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.