Sweet Deal (Matthew 18:21-35)
To answer Peter simple question: How many times should I forgive someone, Jesus gives him the answer. Seventy times seven= an astronomical number… One day long ago, I was in prison…visiting and it made me realize the heaviness of a sentence that some men would never be able to serve and be forgiven. They would eventually die in prison and one friend of mine did. Fortunately, that friend had been forgiven for the sins he had committed and is in heaven today. He became a Christian. Today, I must talk about forgiveness because it is so sweet when you are at the receiving end of it. Imagine that you have a great debt owing…some of us do not have to go very far. You have a great debt owing. Well, that was a reality for a man in the story of Jesus in Matthew 18:21-35 The man owed to his master a debt of several million dollars. He certainly could have never paid this large debt that him and his family owed. He was brought to the master who wanted at first to sell him a