You should be able to forgive everybody when they wrong you. You do not decide which tribe or people to forgive when they wrong you. ![]() Seventy times seven also means that you don’t decide who to forgive and who not to. God expects that we forgive those who wrong us at all times.ĩ. So in a good mood, we can easily forgive those who wrong us and not forgive them when we’re in a bad mood. Unfortunately, some of us decide to forgive or not to depending on our mood swings. Seventy times seven also means you don’t decide when and when not to forgive. The Christianity faith you profess every day is a higher standard of living it’s not a life of free will to decide what or what not to forgive.Ĩ. What God expects you to forgive is what you think you can’t forgive. You should condition in your heart to forgive every offence committed towards you. You must not have a category of offence you’ll look at to forgive or not to forgive others. Seventy times seven also means you don’t decide what to forgive and what not to forgive. Unforgiveness breeds high blood pressure, heart attack and unfortunately kills.ħ. Harbouring pains and hurts in your heart even medically isn’t good for your health. So condition in your heart to forgive at all times. Jesus telling us that we’re to forgive others seventy times seven simply meant to say we must always forgive those who wrong us, even for the same offence over and over again. ![]() Do not be quick to do any calculation and begin to count the number of times you must those who wrong you, it doesn’t hold water. Seventy times seven means that forgive at all times. Why do you think that God must forgive you for the many times you have wrong Him but find it very difficult to forgive others when they also wrong you? Is it not some of hypocrisy on your part? Unforgiveness is like a witchcraft and the same way we do not want to associate with anything like witchcraft we must not have anything to do with unforgiveness too.Ħ. Jesus knowing the state of Peter’s heart stated clearly that forgiveness must be done seventy times seven. Sometimes the measure of standard we use for others we cannot even use it on ourselves.ĥ. We’re quick to go to the Lord to ask His forgiveness for the sins we continue to commit but we feel bitter to forgive others even when they wrong us the second time. We are often aware that we ought to forgive others when they wrong us but we do not believe that we’re to do that at all times, and this remains our problem. However, Peter did not know that we ought to forgive at all times. Peter knew that when people offend us they also deserve to be pardoned and that motivated him to ask how many times that must be done.Ĥ. Whether we like it or not offence will always come to us either from our parents, siblings, relatives, friends or people we never even expected they may come from.ģ. He knew that no matter what in this life others will offend us. From the scripture it is certain that Peter knew something about offence. Peter knew that offence in this life is inevitable. He subsequently asking if such a brother should be forgiven seven times inspired Jesus to preach this sermon of forgiveness.Ģ. It was Peter who went to Jesus and asked him how often a brother who offends him shall be forgiven. This sermon was preached by Jesus Christ but was inspired by Peter. And the lessons drawn from this parable is what informs our sermon today.ġ. But this same servant whom the king forgave couldn’t forgive another fellow who owed him just little. ![]() In our anchor scripture Jesus used a question Peter asked Him about forgiveness to tell a story by likening God’s kingdom to a certain king who forgave his servant who owed him so much money. And at many times we are at the crossed roads contemplating to forgive our offenders or not to. In our relationships with others, marriages, business transactions with others, etc people might have offended us. Right from our homes to schools, offices, community and even the nation, offense will come. ![]() There’s no moment of our lives that others wouldn’t wrong us. Every day of our lives is filled with bitterness, pains and hurts caused us by others.
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