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The Gospel According to Matthew - Week 26
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- Awake Us Now
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- May 19, 2026
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Summary
This teaching is from Matthew 18:21-35, the Parable of the Unforgiving Debtor, and Matthew 19:1-12 on the topic of Divorce. Peter asks Jesus if he should forgive someone seven times. Jesus responds with seventy seven times. The meaning of Jesus saying seventy seven times is that forgiveness in the face of genuine repentance does not keep track of numbers and Jesus is calling us to forgive as we have been forgiven. Then Jesus tells this "Parable of the Unforgiving Debtor," a story where a servant of a king owes millions of dolors to the king. When the king call the debt to account and be paid, the servant begs the king to be patient with him and that he will repay it. The king has compassion and forgives the entire debt! But then this servant of the king has a man that works for him and this man owed the king's servant a few thousand dollars and the king's servant calls this man debt to account. When the man pleads to the king's servant for time to pay but the king's servant has the man thrown into jail until he could get the debt paid. When the king heard about the lack of compassion he confronted his servant saying he had shown compassion and forgiven the debt to him, and that he should have done the same thing to the man that owed him money. The king placed his servant in jail for his lack of compassion until he could pay it off. The story highlights how God, who has forgiven us an immeasurable debt, desires that we show the same kind of mercy to others and if we don't then Jesus says we really don't appreciate what the Father has given us. We are called to forgive as we've been forgiven, to treat others in the same way God treats us. We're called to reflect the incredible goodness of God. And that is shown in the act of forgiveness. God's way is grace, mercy, forgiv…