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Learn how to forgive

If we don`t forgive, God won`t forgive us either

30/08/2017

By: Obispo Jorge Pinheiro

In Mathews 18.23, Jesus said that the Kingdom of Heaven is like a king who had many servants and decided that everyone should report to him. There will be a moment when all of us will report as well: about what you did to your life, you will report to God, who provided you with it. We made none of us or self- existed, God gave us the gift of life That servant owed ten thousand talents. One denarius valued six thousand talents, so his debt was sixty million denarii, in other words, one denarius was the wage of one working day. The debt of this man was unaffordable like our debts with God because the price of the sin is death, everyone would die. The servant asked for mercy, forgiveness, saying that he would pay later, but the king knew he wouldn`t receive what he lent back. The king sympathized and forgave the debt of that man. So far, God has been this way, He sympathizes and forgives our debts, our mistakes, our sins when we ask Him for help and forgiveness. Leaving the presence of the king, that servant met a co-servant who owed him one hundred denarii. It was equivalent to three working months or a little longer. That servant who left the presence of the king didn`t have a similar attitude of a king but grabbed the debtor`s collar, stifling him, and asking for paying them off

When God forgives us, God gives us examples of how to forgive. The servant`s debt was unaffordable, but the debt of the co-servant was affordable. The servant didn`t want to forgive the co servant's debts and put him in prison until he paid his debts off. God forgave the servant, but he didn`t.

His companions, when they saw what the servant did, went to the king and told him everything he did. They became very sad because they saw their friend`s debt was forgiven and the other one was sent to prison. There is no way of running away from God`s trial. God knows everything. The king called that servant as an evil person. He let it clear he forgave his debt because he begged a lot. It doesn`t matter the size of the debt, but it happens the same to us, beg God because Jesus` blood is powerful enough to clean and cancel any sin. That king didn`t need to explain the servant anything about the punishment he would set, but God insists on showing the reason of the sentence. The king ordered them to put the servant in the executioner`s hands until he paid off his debts, in other words, until his death because the amount was impossible to be paid. Today, God forgives our debts, our sins, this way He hopes we do the same with those who owe us anything. The biggest part of our debt is with for God. Forgive your neighbor, the one who offends you or owe you, is possible for us to do so. It`s necessary efforts, but if we want God`s forgiveness, salvation, and everlasting life we have to learn how to forgive. Otherwise, We will be put in the executioner`s hands That`s the promise, and that will happen. It won`t be different with us. That`s why we have to behave the way God asks us to do, forgiving for us to be forgiven. This forgiveness has to come from inside us, from our heart. You have to exercise it because the more you forgive others, the easier it gets. To forget is not the same as to forgive. You have to get rid of the evil condition of not forgiving.