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| Summary: The story of Israelites safely on the shore and their enslavers gone is one we can apply to our own difficult situations that seem to go on and on. It reminds that that we can trust the unchanging God who mercifully made all things in this life to have an end; that ultimately, we ought to revere only God; that our own slaveries are not as hopeless as we often assume them to be; and that part of the ministry of Christ to us is to let us know the sweetness of release when the difficult situations of life finally come to an end.1 |
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| Summary: Jesus’ answer to Peter’s question about how often to forgive someone is a reversal of the ancient idea of unlimited vengeance. Jesus calls us instead to unlimited forgiveness. This is possible because God’s forgiveness of us is more than an exercise in bookkeeping. It is an act of reconciliation that changes peoples’ lives, so that they can be not only forgiven people but forgiving ones. |
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| Summary: Jesus challenges his disciples with a radical view of forgiveness intended to mirror God’s forgiveness of us, and to provide a healthy way to deal with personal injury and pain. |
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| Summary: Jesus expects the forgiveness we receive from God to be a transforming event that enables us to forgive others. |
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| Summary: When Peter asks if it’s enough to forgive another person seven times, Jesus says, “No, seventy-seven times,” and goes on to relate our forgiveness of others to God’s forgiveness of us. Jesus is calling us away from the kind of perpetual conflict that results from lack of forgiveness and toward the kind of peace God makes possible by divine forgiveness. |
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| Summary: Even though Jesus warns us about our lack of forgiveness, we do not forgive others out of fear of punishment. We forgive because we feel grateful to God. The gratitude develops mercy and kindness deep within us. |
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| Summary: Jesus wants us to get stronger and healthier by making the decision to forgive. He then challenges us to turn that choice into an ongoing process, based on a willingness to forgive others because God has forgiven us. |
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| Summary: Rather than offering a simple message of “forgive or you won’t be forgiven,” this parable offers a picture of what life in the church should be like, and of what life in the kingdom the church represents will be like.
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