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Do You Hold the Key to Someones Forgiveness? | Episode #352 | Encore Episode #023 · Reflections On The Word With Richard Kay

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of Reflection on the Word with
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  Speaker 1: Richard K. I'm Chuck Christie, and today we are asking
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  Speaker 1: you to spend a few moments of your time with
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  Speaker 1: us each day as Richard shares from God's work with notes, quotes,
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  Speaker 1: and stores, along with some of his own personal experiences,
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  Speaker 1: to confirm for you God's great love for us, that
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  Speaker 1: his compassion for us never fails, and that He has
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  Speaker 1: a great faithfulness toward us in every regard. In Lamentations,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter three, verses twenty two and twenty three, we read,
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  Speaker 1: because of the Lord's great love, we are not consumed,
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  Speaker 1: for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning.
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  Speaker 1: Great is your faithfulness. Now, if you miss a portion
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  Speaker 1: Talknetwork Radio dot com. Well, now here's Richard with today's reflection.
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  Speaker 2: And I will give you the keys of the Kingdom
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  Speaker 2: of Heaven. Whatever you bind on earth will be bound
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  Speaker 2: in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be
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  Speaker 2: loose in Heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Mat you.
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  Speaker 2: Sixteen nineteen. We actually have a series which we began
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  Speaker 2: and began to complete, which was called the Seven Keys
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  Speaker 2: to Christian Living. We also found that within the description
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  Speaker 2: there were key references that were used biblically for binding
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  Speaker 2: and loosing. One of the aspects of this is pertinent
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  Speaker 2: to Matthew sixteen nineteen, and continuing into the eighteenth chapter
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  Speaker 2: of Matthew, we will find even more of an explanation
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  Speaker 2: of the use of this particular key. Now we're going
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  Speaker 2: to title this message, do you hold the key to
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  Speaker 2: someone's forgiveness. Let's remember that Jesus presented Peter with the
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  Speaker 2: keys to the Kingdom of God. We actually read that
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  Speaker 2: in Matthew sixteen nineteen. Now it wasn't for Peter only,
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  Speaker 2: but he presented it to Peter because he recognized he
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  Speaker 2: was the Messiah. But then as this becomes more of
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  Speaker 2: an application, there are experiences that take place, and one
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  Speaker 2: of the things that takes place is how you use
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  Speaker 2: this key of binding and loosing. Remember, one of the
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  Speaker 2: things that we did to describe this as a x
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  Speaker 2: key or extremely powerful key given by God, is that
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  Speaker 2: this particular key is the one that had lock someone
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  Speaker 2: or unlocked someone. And we're dealing with something that is
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  Speaker 2: very very practical. If you take a key, put it
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  Speaker 2: in a law, and that key fits the law, you
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  Speaker 2: will be able to open it, and whatever that lock
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  Speaker 2: has hold of will then be set free. So the
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  Speaker 2: statement of binding and loosing has to do with locking
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  Speaker 2: and unlocking, or another way of looking at it is
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  Speaker 2: it has to do with setting captives free. Now, one
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  Speaker 2: of the reasons why this is particularly important is because
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  Speaker 2: Jesus proclaimed the very position of the anointing given to him,
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  Speaker 2: because he said he was anointed to preach deliverance to
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  Speaker 2: the captives, meaning he could loose them. So if he
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  Speaker 2: provided the power to loose them, what was the power
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  Speaker 2: that he used. In Matthew chapter eighteen, he explains the
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  Speaker 2: use of the key, the key of forgiveness. There's a
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  Speaker 2: parable that first is an answer to a question. The
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  Speaker 2: question came from Peter sometime after he had been walking
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  Speaker 2: and learning. Of course, as a follower of Jesus, he
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  Speaker 2: was constantly asking questions about the Kingdom of God. What
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  Speaker 2: would this mean? And he was given the understanding, if
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  Speaker 2: you will, the application understanding of binding and loosing, As
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  Speaker 2: we read in Matthew chapter eighteen, beginning with verse eighteen,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus then says, once again, assuredly, I say to you,
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  Speaker 2: whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven,
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  Speaker 2: and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Now,
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  Speaker 2: when he made this statement Matthew sixteen nineteen was the
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  Speaker 2: proclamation that the keys would be used for the same reason,
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  Speaker 2: binding and loosing. Whatever you bind on earth will be
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  Speaker 2: found in heaven. Whatever you loose on earth will be
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  Speaker 2: loosed in heaven. In other words, you're in total agreement
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  Speaker 2: with what Heaven prefers, and so in this particular case,
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  Speaker 2: Peter asked the question following all of the teaching, he
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  Speaker 2: asked the question in the twenty first verse. Beginning Peter
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  Speaker 2: came to Jesus and he said, Lord, how often shall
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  Speaker 2: my brother sin against me? And I forgive him up
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  Speaker 2: to seven times? Now, this was Peter's means of being
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  Speaker 2: able to find out what is the application of this
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  Speaker 2: particular key. Jesus said to him following in verse twenty two,
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  Speaker 2: I do not say to you up to seven times,
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  Speaker 2: but up to seventy times seven. And then he begins
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  Speaker 2: to tell him about how the Kingdom of Heaven functions. Now,
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  Speaker 2: why is this important, Because what he's really doing here
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  Speaker 2: is he is saying that this is the way it
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  Speaker 2: should be done on earth. As the Kingdom of Heaven
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  Speaker 2: is brought to earth. How is that done? We bind
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  Speaker 2: or we lock something in this earth, it is already
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  Speaker 2: locked in heaven. We unlock something on the earth, it
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  Speaker 2: is already unlocked in heaven. So when Jesus said not
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  Speaker 2: seven times, but seventy time seven, that was something they
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  Speaker 2: had never heard before. Forgiveness of someone who wrongs you
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  Speaker 2: and being able to say yes and turn the other cheek.
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  Speaker 2: If he hit you or something of that hut one
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  Speaker 2: time and then he hits you again. Second time you forgive,
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  Speaker 2: he hits you again. The third time you forgive, he
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  Speaker 2: hits you again. The fourth time you forgive, he hits
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  Speaker 2: you again. Pretty Soon you can no longer reach a
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  Speaker 2: point of forgiveness in your own capacity. You have to
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  Speaker 2: have God's capacity to forgive. And so this is exactly
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  Speaker 2: what He's giving in the use of the key. Let's
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  Speaker 2: follow how the scripture defines what takes place. Therefore, the
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  Speaker 2: Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king who wanted
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  Speaker 2: to settle accounts with his servants. And when he had
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  Speaker 2: begun to settle accounts, one was brought to him who
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  Speaker 2: owed him ten thousand talents, But as he was not
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  Speaker 2: able to pay, his master commanded that he be sold
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  Speaker 2: with his wife and children and all that he had,
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  Speaker 2: and that payment be made. The servant therefore fell down
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  Speaker 2: before him, saying, Master, have patience with me, and I
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  Speaker 2: will pay you all. Then the master of that servant
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  Speaker 2: was moved with compassion, released him and forgave him the debt.
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  Speaker 2: But the servant went out and found one of his
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  Speaker 2: fellow servants who owed him one hundred denari, and he
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  Speaker 2: laid hands on him and took him by the throat, saying,
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  Speaker 2: pay me what you owe. So his fellow servant fell
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  Speaker 2: down at his feet begged him, saying, have patience with me,
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  Speaker 2: and I will pay you all. And he would not,
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  Speaker 2: but went and threw him into prison till he should
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  Speaker 2: pay the debt. So when his fellow servants saw what
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  Speaker 2: he had done, they were very grief and came and
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  Speaker 2: told their master all that had been done. When his master,
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  Speaker 2: after he had called him, said to him, you, wicked servant,
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  Speaker 2: I forgave you all that debt because you begged me.
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  Speaker 2: Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant,
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  Speaker 2: just as I had pity on you, and his master
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  Speaker 2: was angry and delivered him to the tortures until he
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  Speaker 2: should pay all that was due him. The thirty fifth
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  Speaker 2: verse is no longer a parable. This is a command.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus states clearly here. So, my heavenly father also will
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  Speaker 2: do to you, if each of you, from his heart
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  Speaker 2: does not forgive his brother his trespasses. What we have
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  Speaker 2: just read is both the use of a key and
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  Speaker 2: the abuse of the key. The key can loose someone
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  Speaker 2: who is bound in sin, or it can puld them
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  Speaker 2: in the same position. Why do we know that that
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  Speaker 2: is true, because that is the very charge that was
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  Speaker 2: laid on our lord. He claimed that he had the
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  Speaker 2: power to forgive sin. So if Jesus is giving believers
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  Speaker 2: the authority to forgive sin, it is for the same
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  Speaker 2: reason that the leaders of the known religious world would
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  Speaker 2: raise the same charge against us. Why, because he gave
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  Speaker 2: us the power to release those lots in sin. Whatever
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  Speaker 2: you bind on earth will be loose. Whatever you bind
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  Speaker 2: on earth will be bound in heaven. Whatever you loose
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  Speaker 2: on earth will be loosed in heaven. Now, in another
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  Speaker 2: chapter he makes this statement very clear. He says, Jesus
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  Speaker 2: said to his followers, and this is after his resurrection,
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  Speaker 2: he appears to them, He breathes on them. He says
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  Speaker 2: to them, whoever sin you have to release, they are released.
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  Speaker 2: Whoever sin you forgive, they are forgiven. But whoever sin
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  Speaker 2: you retain, you can keep them held in bondage by
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  Speaker 2: not forgiving them. If you retain their sins, their sins
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  Speaker 2: are retained. What does that mean? This particular parable describes
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  Speaker 2: the function. We owe a debt for our sin that
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  Speaker 2: is so great we cannot pay it. God is moved
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  Speaker 2: with compassion. He places his own son on the cross
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  Speaker 2: at Calgary. His blood pours out as redemption, repurchasing us
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  Speaker 2: for what sin had brought in our life. And because
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  Speaker 2: of that, he is able to confer the same power
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  Speaker 2: to us. He has the power to forgive sin. He
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  Speaker 2: gives his followers power to forgive sin. People need to
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  Speaker 2: understand that is not a toy. That is one of
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  Speaker 2: the most powerful keys you could ever use in the kingdom.
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  Speaker 2: How do we use it? I forgive him.
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  Speaker 1: Richard will be right back in a moment to wrap up.
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  Speaker 2: Do we have a right to hold someone in unforgiveness?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely not. If Jesus could pray from the cross, Father,
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  Speaker 2: forgive them, for they know not what they do. We
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  Speaker 2: have to be the same. This was noted. Stephen, who
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  Speaker 2: was an early follower of Jesus, was proclaiming the gospel
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  Speaker 2: and he was stoned to death. While he was being stoned,
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  Speaker 2: Saul of Tarsus was next to him in the craft.
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  Speaker 2: He witnessed the stoning. In fact, he probably participated in
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  Speaker 2: the stoning. And what did Stephen proclaim? The same message?
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  Speaker 2: He said, Father, forgive them, well, they know not what
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  Speaker 2: they do. The key to forgiveness. Can hold somebody in sin,
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  Speaker 2: locked in sin because of unforgiveness, but by forgiving we
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  Speaker 2: can release them so they can become followers and children
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  Speaker 2: of God. We can continue the great commission going forward
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  Speaker 2: preaching the good news that God has forgiven our sins,
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  Speaker 2: and we proclaim it and set people free. We have
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  Speaker 2: no right to hold someone in unforgiveness, no matter what
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  Speaker 2: they may have done. Jesus forgave all our sin. We
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  Speaker 2: must do the same. The thirty fifth verse of the
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  Speaker 2: eighteenth chapter of Matthew says soberingly, so my heavenly Father
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  Speaker 2: also will do to you if each of you, from
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  Speaker 2: his heart does not forgive his brother his trespasses. That
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  Speaker 2: is today's Reflection on the World.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Richard. Join us again tomorrow when we continue
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  Speaker 1: with the next edition of Reflections on the Word with
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  Speaker 1: Richard k Or Richard and the entire team. This is
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Christie saying thanks for listening to this edition of
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  Speaker 1: Reflections on the Word.