Title: Pay Off Your Debt
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Bible: Matthew 18:21-35 Title: Pay All Your Debts
'Where two or three are gathered together in my 'name', I am among them.' (Matthew 18:20)
The church is where people who gather for the name of Jesus are gathered together because of ‘parents, brothers and sisters’ and because of the name of Jesus. It is a religion, a club, a fellowship that gathers for different motives, purposes, and reasons. At the end of Jesus' speech, Peter asked Jesus a question. ‘Lord, if my brother sins against me, how many times shall I forgive him or up to seven times?’ (21) The rabbis taught that a neighbor’s sins should be forgiven only three times and no more. For the Jews, the Mosaic Law had an injury compensation law, 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.' (Leviticus 24:20) Jesus told Peter to obey the laws of the kingdom, which transcend the laws and the laws of the world. taught
1. Heaven and Accounts (Return grace with grace)
As Jesus taught Peter the principle of forgiveness, he told a parable in which the kingdom of heaven is like a king making an account with his servants. Heaven is a place where you receive free grace through faith and enter, but He clearly stated that there is a day to account with those servants. If the servants do not live according to the principles of heaven, God's bills and bills will one day come. Just as the Law ought to repay an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth... so the kingdom of heaven is to repay grace with grace.
The saved servants who live by receiving God's infinite grace, the way to repay the grace is to live by grace. We must live the life of faith by grace. There is no comparison between Martha's principle of reward and Mary's law of grace that broke the alabaster.
We have been saved by grace and labor and serve for Jesus and the gospel. Don't think of it as a price, but repay it with grace.
The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who tried to make an account with his servants... These words become an important principle of judgment in heaven. A person who does not repay grace with grace is an evil person. The righteous are those who repay kindness with grace.
2. There was nothing to repay (25)
The king brought a man who owed ten thousand talents when he was accounting with a man who had not paid his taxes, and he had nothing to repay. ) Ten thousand talents are equivalent to about twenty million dollars (24 billion) in today's currency. According to the testimony of the Jewish historian Josephus, it is said that the annual tax from all Judea was only 800 talents. This amount can be seen as a symbol of a sin so great that it cannot be repaid by man's own strength against God. You will fall backwards the moment you receive God's bill. “I had nothing to repay.” How can I repay the grace of general grace and the grace of redemption on the cross that God has bestowed upon me? When the servant fell on his face and prayed, the master showed mercy and indemnified him. Like the new word 'Paris BB tension', rubbing like a fly's forepaws and releasing tension is the way to receive grace. Prayer is empty. God's children are those who live by praying (by praying to God...).
3. Without permission (30)
The servant who received grace had to live by repaying it with grace, but he began to live with debt. He found a subordinate and put him in prison to pay off what he owed him 100 denarii. 100 denarii is about $20 (24,000 won). The subordinates were very embarrassed and told their master everything about it. When his master called him, he became angry, evil servant, saying, ‘I forgave you all your debts because of your prayer’ (32). Shouldn’t you also have pity on your brother-in-law, just as I have compassion on you?’ (33)
A person who repays kindness is an evil person. Those who live by thinking of God's grace as compensation and debt are evil servants. A person who has received great forgiveness and apology from God and does not forgive small sins and trespasses is an evil person.
4. So that the owner is angry and pays all the debt (34)
Those who are angry with God are those who do not repay grace with grace. Those who do not repay forgiveness with forgiveness, those who do not repay love with love. We have received God's grace and have been forgiven. We too must live by repaying grace with grace and forgiveness with forgiveness. Lord! As the year goes by, let me repay you with grace and forgive me.