1 00:00:02,080 --> 00:00:03,720 It's hard to imagine going from a. 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:11,280 Lower place, the crucifixion of our Lord, the spectacle of 3 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:16,320 torture and shame. From that low place to this 4 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:18,600 scene that Emma just read for us. 5 00:00:23,080 --> 00:00:29,080 He's alive. He's speaking to me, how can 6 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:33,360 this be? And that that reversal, that 7 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:37,720 that reversal gives hope no matter what we face in life, 8 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:45,160 anything is obviously possible with God if he can raise the 9 00:00:45,160 --> 00:00:48,000 dead and. It is this. 10 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:51,880 That we celebrate this morning as we gather in His name. 11 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:57,440 After this Holy Week as. We've been moving through this 12 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:02,960 is somber tone, this funeral procession to this this morning, 13 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:10,680 these hallelujahs, this exultant music celebrate the resurrection 14 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:12,440 of our Lord Jesus Christ this morning. 15 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:16,000 We've been working our way as a church through a series on the 16 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:22,640 Lord's Prayer for weeks. Now about the second-half of. 17 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:26,480 The prayer we've talked about, the address, our Father in 18 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:29,240 heaven. And talked about how important 19 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:32,240 it is to understand that we have a father who is. 20 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:34,520 Adopted. Us in the gospel, who is 21 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:40,640 intimate and loving, but also a heavenly Father, one who is 22 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:43,800 omniscient. He knows all omnipotent He can. 23 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:47,240 Do. All that he is not only willing, 24 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:50,000 but able. This is the one to whom we pray. 25 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:52,520 Jesus taught his. Disciples, how to? 26 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:55,640 Pray with this prayer and over the weeks we've taken on the 27 00:01:55,640 --> 00:02:00,600 first three of the six petitions that are all God centered. 28 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:03,880 Focused on his name and his Kingdom and His will. 29 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:06,880 And just last week, we transitioned to the second-half 30 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:09,479 of the prayer, which you see up there part of it. 31 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:11,960 Give us. This day, Our Daily Bread. 32 00:02:12,640 --> 00:02:14,600 We talked. About last week and today we 33 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:19,120 move into the next petition and forgive us our debts as we. 34 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:24,520 Forgive our debtors weeks ago when I was. 35 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:28,200 Preparing and planning. I got so excited. 36 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:30,800 That we would be. Talking about the forgiveness of 37 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:35,920 sins on Easter Sunday. Magnificent. 38 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:40,520 Praise God. So we'll talk a little bit about 39 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:44,520 what this means and forgive us our debts as we forgive our 40 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:47,080 debtors. Perhaps you've heard this prayer 41 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:50,280 before and you didn't say debts and debtors there. 42 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:53,960 Maybe you said trespasses. Forgive us our trespasses as we 43 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:56,240 forgive those who trespass against us. 44 00:02:56,240 --> 00:03:00,120 Maybe you said their sins. Forgive us our sins as we 45 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:01,880 forgive those who sin against us. 46 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:03,880 Maybe your translation has wrongs. 47 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:06,320 What does this word mean that gets translated in so many 48 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:07,360 different? Ways. 49 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:12,040 Talk here. It's using a language of debts. 50 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:16,720 Is he talking about money here? Is this a a prayer about your 51 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:26,440 visa bill or your mortgage? Your car payment is not. 52 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:33,600 Lord is using the word debts to refer to transgressions, sins, 53 00:03:33,920 --> 00:03:35,600 things that we have done against. 54 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:37,040 Some kind of? Holy. 55 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:42,800 Standard Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against 56 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:47,760 us. And this is the only of the 57 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:51,480 petitions that Jesus in the near context in Matthew 6 kind of 58 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:54,280 expands on a little bit using even uses the word. 59 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:57,680 Trespasses here. For if you forgive others their 60 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:01,560 trespasses, the things they do against you, your heavenly 61 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:07,440 Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others 62 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:11,200 their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your 63 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:13,680 trespasses. What does that mean? 64 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:18,399 What does it mean for us to receive forgiveness as we give? 65 00:04:18,399 --> 00:04:21,920 Forgiveness does that. Mean that our forgiveness of 66 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:26,800 others causes our forgiveness with God. 67 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:31,760 That our forgiveness with God is conditional somehow upon our 68 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:34,560 forgiveness of others. I'm going to talk about. 69 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:36,840 That a little bit this morning as we expand on this. 70 00:04:36,840 --> 00:04:38,600 What does it mean? For us to. 71 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:41,240 Have forgiveness and give forgiveness. 72 00:04:43,840 --> 00:04:48,040 Everyone needs this, don't we? Everyone needs forgiveness. 73 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:53,760 It's also super difficult. Whether you're on one side or 74 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:57,240 the other, it's hard. Maybe you are the one that has 75 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:01,680 been sinned against. Somebody has offended you. 76 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:04,560 Someone has dumped something that is wrong to you. 77 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:06,760 It's hard to. Forgive them. 78 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:11,080 And the greater the offense, the more difficult it is to forgive. 79 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:17,040 We want to punish, we want revenge. 80 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:19,800 We want to. Get even. 81 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:24,000 So it's hard to give. Forgiveness if you've been 82 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:27,120 sinned against. But it's also hard to. 83 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:30,360 Get forgiveness if you're the one that has done the. 84 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:34,760 Sinning to admit. That you're wrong is hard. 85 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:35,800 It's. Humiliating. 86 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:41,760 To approach the one that you've offended is scary. 87 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:48,520 To have to ask for forgiveness is humiliating. 88 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:53,680 And if they shut you off and refuse to give it, you reside in 89 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:57,920 a unreconciled state. Just. 90 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:04,560 Painful forgiveness is hard. We're there. 91 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:06,600 We're the ones that have to. Grant it. 92 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:11,720 Grant it or to receive it. It's difficult. 93 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:15,760 Everybody needs forgiveness. We need forgiveness not only in 94 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:17,360 our. Interpersonal relationships with 95 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:20,040 one another, but we also need forgiveness with God. 96 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:25,080 To not know where we stand with. God is terrifying. 97 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:30,120 To not know if our conscience is OK with God. 98 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:34,800 It makes it hard to sleep at night if you're sensitive to 99 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:38,480 that. But on the other hand, if you're 100 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:43,440 not and you galvanized your heart, you harden your heart, 101 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:47,160 and you say, I don't really care about my relationship or my. 102 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:50,080 Or my. Standing with God, whether 103 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:54,400 you'll admit it or not, that's. Scary too, very sad. 104 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:58,760 Everyone needs forgiveness. We're. 105 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:06,040 Going to talk this morning about the need and the provision for 106 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:07,840 our. Forgiveness in the Gospel. 107 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:11,640 We will not have time this morning to talk. 108 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:14,120 In completeness. About this petition. 109 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:17,080 For forgiveness. This is Part 1 and I will. 110 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:19,400 Next week, talk. About Part 2 SO. 111 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:22,560 If you're listening and you're. Thinking Pastor Dan, you left 112 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:24,280 out. You left out some pretty 113 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:25,840 important stuff about forgiveness. 114 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:29,040 That's OK Stay tuned. Come back next week, we'll talk 115 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:32,600 more about forgiveness. But this morning I want to talk 116 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:34,680 about the. Need and the provision of 117 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:36,680 forgiveness. Let's let's talk about the need. 118 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:40,480 For forgiveness. Biblically, we learned several 119 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:42,120 things. I will work my way through 120 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:47,680 several texts so that you can see the need of forgiveness is 121 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:52,040 vast and great because the sin problem is universal. 122 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:56,000 The Bible teaches us that all have sinned and fall short of 123 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:00,480 the glory of God. So no matter how perfect someone 124 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:05,080 seems to you, they. Are sinners. 125 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:08,960 They've broken God's. Standard and fall short of His 126 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:12,920 Holiness. The need for forgiveness is 127 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:15,880 great because it's a universal problem of sin. 128 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:21,000 It's also an inherited problem. The Bible teaches in Romans 5 129 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:23,800 this therefore, just as sin came into the world through. 130 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:25,480 One man that. Is Adam. 131 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:29,120 So many generations ago and death. 132 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:35,799 Through sin so death spread to all men, because all sin. 133 00:08:35,799 --> 00:08:37,240 This text. Teaches us that we have 134 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:39,919 inherited. A sin nature. 135 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:42,960 From our. Parents and our grandparents 136 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:44,680 all. The way up to Adam. 137 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:53,080 This is why you never had to teach your children the word. 138 00:08:54,000 --> 00:09:00,880 No, and why teaching them to obey is so much harder to teach 139 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:02,640 them. Than it is. 140 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:04,960 For them to disobey, they're just naturally. 141 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:08,720 Good at it. We are born sinners. 142 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:12,880 We've inherited this from our parents. 143 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:17,280 This Bible verse also says that there's a consequence this. 144 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:23,520 Notion of death. Death we think of as separation 145 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:28,200 two types of death, a separation from God whereby we are not born 146 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:31,640 as friends of God, but in a state of enmity or. 147 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:37,080 Enemies of God. And we also have a separation. 148 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:39,840 We all face this of our physical bodies separating. 149 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:43,240 From our souls. So because of sin, we face 150 00:09:43,560 --> 00:09:45,880 physical death and spiritual death, a type. 151 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:49,680 Of separation. So we can see that this is a 152 00:09:49,680 --> 00:09:51,120 huge. Problem. 153 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:54,640 It's not only universal and inherited, but it's pervasive. 154 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:56,040 Let's look at. This text that. 155 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:59,440 Shows. How devastating this is to our 156 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:02,720 person. And since they the humans. 157 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:05,040 Did not. See fit to. 158 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:06,000 Acknowledge. God. 159 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:09,240 God gave them up to a debased. Mind. 160 00:10:09,560 --> 00:10:13,120 To do what ought not to be done. They're sinners. 161 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:17,120 And they were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, 162 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:20,520 covetousness and malice. They were full of envy, murder, 163 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:25,640 strife, deceit, maliciousness. Can be easy to think. 164 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:27,520 Hey, you know what, Dan? You know sin. 165 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:29,560 Yeah, it's a problem. But I'm not as bad as the people 166 00:10:29,560 --> 00:10:31,640 in prison. I'm no murderer. 167 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:37,040 The Bible clearly teaches that we are bad. 168 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:39,400 You know. Some are worse in some ways than 169 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:44,240 others from the consequences standpoint, but this list has 170 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:45,760 not only murder. On it but. 171 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:50,480 Attitudes. Things in our mind and our 172 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:56,240 hearts. Covetousness, malice or hatred, 173 00:10:56,920 --> 00:11:00,880 envy, these things are. Sometimes kind of. 174 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:04,160 Hard to see or detect. Even in our own lives, I think 175 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:06,880 we will all believe that the sin problem is pervasive. 176 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:11,320 No one really would like. No one would. 177 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:13,920 Really enjoy. Seeing a movie. 178 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:22,720 Played publicly of their inner life, we know that we are 179 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:26,040 sinners. This text goes on to say. 180 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:28,680 They are gossips. Slanderers, haters of God, 181 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:31,720 insolence that means rude. Haughty. 182 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:35,520 It's arrogant. Boastful inventors of evil, 183 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:39,240 disobedient to parents. Foolish, faithless. 184 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:41,520 Heartless. Ruthless. 185 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:46,120 Though they know there's an intuition, they know God's 186 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:48,880 righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to 187 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:50,400 die. We kind of know that this is 188 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:52,320 really bad and it. Deserves a consequence. 189 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:56,240 They not only do them but give approval. 190 00:11:56,240 --> 00:12:01,960 To those who practice them. So we can see the sin problem is 191 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:06,040 universal, it's inherited, it's pervasive through our entire 192 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:09,560 persons. And it has a penalty, which is 193 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:13,080 death. Bible also teaches. 194 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:18,200 That it can. Gather up an unpayable moral 195 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:20,960 debt. And This is why the word debt is 196 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:24,480 helpful, because we can kind of think in terms of money to think 197 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:27,080 of a debt that is too big for you to pay. 198 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:35,200 When I was preparing, I, I looked up what's the, the 199 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:40,520 record, the. US record for the longest prison 200 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:46,640 sentence sentenced What's the longest prison sentence? 201 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:49,040 That has. Been given out by. 202 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:52,440 A judge. Not the longest prison sentences 203 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:55,000 someone has served. Obviously your own lifespan 204 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:55,800 would limit. That. 205 00:12:56,520 --> 00:12:59,560 But what's the longest prison sentence in U.S. history? 206 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:03,880 That has been rendered against a perpetrator. 207 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:09,680 You ready for? This 30,000. 208 00:13:09,680 --> 00:13:15,120 Years. Now, at first we think that's 209 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:16,320 absurd. Why would a judge? 210 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:22,040 Ever sentence someone past? A normal lifespan. 211 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:26,280 Why? It's because even unbelievers 212 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:32,560 have a moral intuition that we can steal more and take more 213 00:13:32,560 --> 00:13:38,360 than we can possibly repay. You take someone's life, you 214 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:44,520 can't get that back. You rack up a moral debt far 215 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:48,080 surpassing your own. Ability to pay it and even the 216 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:50,880 justice system you think? Oh, maybe that was really old. 217 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:53,120 No, that's from 1994. And they're more They're even 218 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:58,240 recent examples of prison. Sentences that exceed lifespans. 219 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:05,520 Because the courts have to give a strong demonstration to the 220 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:09,640 perpetrator, but also to the. Victims of crimes that what just 221 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:17,280 happened is really, really bad. An unpayably bad problem. 222 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:21,040 So we kind of understand the math. 223 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:23,400 Here a little bit we have an intuition that helps us get 224 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:24,360 closer. But Jesus. 225 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:27,320 Helps us too. He helps us with a. 226 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:29,840 Parable demonstrating forgiveness. 227 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:32,320 What forgiveness is like. Using an economic. 228 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:37,160 Metaphor in Matthew chapter 18. I'll read the first part of the 229 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:40,920 parable. Matthew chapter 18 therefore the 230 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:43,560 Kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to 231 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:46,760 settle accounts with his servants When he began to 232 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:50,600 settle, one was brought to him who owed him 10,000 talents. 233 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:53,560 Now, most of us don't measure our. 234 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:55,880 Money and talents anymore? What does that mean? 235 00:14:57,200 --> 00:14:59,000 That's a ridiculous. Amount of money. 236 00:14:59,520 --> 00:15:03,840 In today's terms, billions and billions of dollars. 10s of 237 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:10,880 billions of dollars and since he could not pay, his master 238 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:14,040 ordered him to be sold and with his wife and children and all 239 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:15,760 that he had and payment to be made. 240 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:18,520 Fine, Liquidate, let's see what we can at least. 241 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:22,480 Find here. And so the servant fell on his 242 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:25,960 knees, imploring him. Have patience with me and I will 243 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:28,880 pay you everything. Which that in itself is 244 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:34,000 impossible. He's pleading for forgiveness of 245 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:36,000 the debt. Verse 27 and out of. 246 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,360 Pity for him. It's compassion to the master. 247 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:41,520 The master of that servant released him and forgave. 248 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:48,000 Him the debt now. You could ask yourself, OK, that 249 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:49,680 all makes sense. It really makes sense for a 250 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:53,960 super rich guy who is owed money to, you know, sort of wave his 251 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:57,520 hand and forgive the debts, right? 252 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:01,400 No problem. But what happens if we're 253 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:02,960 actually talking about a? Moral. 254 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:08,520 Debt where there are victims of. Crimes. 255 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:14,320 Where the master or the judge can't just wave his hand and 256 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:16,480 pardon everything and still be just. 257 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:19,000 Does anybody want to live in a world where the justice system 258 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:20,760 just lets off all the criminals off the hook? 259 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:22,600 Now don't do that again. Bye bye. 260 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:25,040 See you go. Empty all the prisons, let them 261 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:28,240 all loose. What does that mean for the 262 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:30,800 victims and for their families? No, there is more. 263 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:35,960 Required of justice is. There a justice problem here 264 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:37,560 with letting people off the hook? 265 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:39,160 Yes, yes, there. Is. 266 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:42,280 And the Bible, actually. Deals with this. 267 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:49,520 That God, in order to grant pardon, needs to exact penalty. 268 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:53,200 From something to. Make things just so that we know 269 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:57,800 that he's righteous and that's some flaky pushover that just 270 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:04,400 says that's OK. To horrible heinous crimes and 271 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:09,720 that cost my friend. This fund of forgiveness comes 272 00:17:09,839 --> 00:17:15,599 at the cost of His own Son, the Son he loves, Jesus Christ 273 00:17:15,599 --> 00:17:18,079 fully. God, fully man, lived a perfect 274 00:17:18,079 --> 00:17:23,000 righteous life and paid the penalty for sinners that they 275 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:27,839 may be granted a just pardon. Look at the language from the 276 00:17:27,839 --> 00:17:32,080 Bible, Romans 3, now verses 25 through 26. 277 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:36,240 God presented Jesus as a sacrifice of atonement. 278 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:41,640 Through faith in His blood, He did this. 279 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:44,080 To demonstrate his. Justice, you see. 280 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:45,840 We have to. Show. 281 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:51,080 That sin is sin because in his forbearance up to this time, he 282 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:53,800 had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished. 283 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:56,000 He did it to demonstrated justice. 284 00:17:56,520 --> 00:18:01,240 At the present time, so. As to be just. 285 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:04,640 Righteous. Judge and the one who justifies. 286 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:08,680 Who can grant pardon? Those who have faith in Jesus. 287 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:17,800 The need for forgiveness is so vast and expensive that it cost 288 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:27,900 the Son of God his life. So we've considered the need. 289 00:18:27,900 --> 00:18:32,300 For forgiveness and explored briefly its profound depth. 290 00:18:32,500 --> 00:18:34,620 Let's. Talk about the provision of 291 00:18:34,620 --> 00:18:36,900 forgiveness, which you've already got a gotten a little 292 00:18:36,900 --> 00:18:40,180 bit of a preview of in those verses the. 293 00:18:40,180 --> 00:18:43,780 Provision of forgiveness. Comes from the gift of Jesus. 294 00:18:44,900 --> 00:18:47,700 The wages of sin is death, that's what we deserve, but the 295 00:18:47,700 --> 00:18:52,280 free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus. 296 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:58,640 Our Lord, the provision comes from His person, His body and 297 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:04,240 soul, His perfect obedience, fulfilling the. 298 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:08,760 Law also comes from him negatively by bearing the curse 299 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:12,000 of the law on our. Behalf experiencing the penalty 300 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,880 of sin separation from God for. US. 301 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:18,000 But he didn't stay dead. Hallelujah. 302 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:23,440 On the third day he arose, and so therefore we can have new 303 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:26,880 life. Paul says it this way in First 304 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:31,680 Corinthians 15 for what I Paul received. 305 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:37,560 The Gospel I passed on to you as of first importance. 306 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:40,040 That Christ died. For our sins according to the 307 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:42,880 scripture. That he was buried. 308 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:44,920 And then when? He was raised. 309 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:48,720 On the third day, according to the scripture, this is the 310 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:56,080 provision for forgiveness. 2nd Corinthians 521 gives you very 311 00:19:56,080 --> 00:20:00,840 clearly this idea of substitution, that somehow our 312 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:05,240 sins could be placed upon this righteous substitute, that he 313 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:10,600 could receive the penalty for our sin so that we may justly. 314 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:14,640 Be granted A pardon by faith. God made him. 315 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:16,720 Jesus. Who had no. 316 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:23,520 Sin totally innocent. To be sin for us, so that in 317 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:25,440 Him. We might become the 318 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:29,880 righteousness of God. Hallelujah, Hallelujah. 319 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:35,120 So what's next? How can we? 320 00:20:35,120 --> 00:20:38,640 Apply these great truths to our life as we pray. 321 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:44,160 Forgive us our debts as we forgive those our debtors, those 322 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:50,400 who have sinned against us. Well, first friends, in order 323 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,560 to. Be able to extend forgiveness. 324 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:55,320 We have to 1st receive God's forgiveness. 325 00:20:55,640 --> 00:21:00,240 And this is the part where we call out to you, if you've never 326 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:04,960 accepted the Lord Jesus to be your your Lord and Savior, where 327 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:11,000 you you can, you can do that. Well, Pastor Dan, how would I do 328 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:11,960 that? I don't know what you're saying. 329 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:16,320 Say, well, if you find yourself convinced that you are a Sinner 330 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:20,240 indeed, and you have a troubled conscience and you've wondered 331 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:21,680 how to make that. Right. 332 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:25,600 And maybe you've even tried ways to pay it back, doing good 333 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:27,920 things, giving your money, doing this and that, and you just 334 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:29,880 realize that that's. Kind of impossible. 335 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:31,400 The debts. Too big. 336 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:35,760 The Bible says that you can throw yourself. 337 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:38,120 At the feet of Jesus and cry out. 338 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:42,920 Have mercy on me, a Sinner. Forgive. 339 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:46,040 Me, I trust in your provision on my head. 340 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:49,120 On my behalf you. Can cry out to him in prayer. 341 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:54,120 Lord save me. I'm tired of trying. 342 00:21:54,120 --> 00:22:01,760 This on my own and receive his forgiveness and the freedom that 343 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:06,720 comes from having a clear conscience as free as prisoner 344 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:08,800 who's been granted pardon is walking out. 345 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:14,240 Paul again in 2nd Corinthians 520. 346 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:21,000 We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were 347 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:22,760 making his appeal through us. I'm. 348 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:25,960 Saying that as a pastor in the church right now. 349 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:31,640 As somebody who's been entrusted with the gospel message, acting 350 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:34,240 in God's behalf, I'm making an appeal. 351 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:37,640 We implore you. What a. 352 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:42,280 Great word. Strongly ask with urgency. 353 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:46,840 We implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God. 354 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:52,480 Have mercy on me, a Sinner he will fulfill. 355 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:55,400 His promises, as surely as Christ has risen from the dead, 356 00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:59,800 are the words of our Lord. Mark 1/15. 357 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:03,280 The time is fulfilled and the Kingdom of God is at hand. 358 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:11,040 Repent and believe. In the gospel it's good news for 359 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:15,920 great need receive his forgiveness. 360 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:20,160 Now, maybe you've been a Christian for a long. 361 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:22,680 Time, you say? Yeah, Dan, that's my story. 362 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:24,480 Wonderful to celebrate that on Easter. 363 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:28,320 Sunday we need. To talk about. 364 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:33,880 Extending forgiveness, don't we? And this is really hard. 365 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:36,720 It's not like when you get saved it just becomes super easy to 366 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:37,960 forgive people. All the time. 367 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:43,880 Forgiveness is difficult, and as in the Lord's Prayer, we pray 368 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:47,680 daily for Our Daily Bread, in the Lord's Prayer we pray daily 369 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:49,800 for help to forgiving, forgiving people. 370 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:56,080 It's a ongoing, daily, sometimes hourly, moment by moment task. 371 00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:04,120 That person who's harmed you, that rival that's embittering 372 00:24:04,120 --> 00:24:07,480 you. That person that said that 373 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:09,080 thing, this guy you spinning and up. 374 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:15,600 At night, just burning that person you don't want to talk 375 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:20,920 to, that person you hide from. It's a type of prison. 376 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:22,640 We'll. Talk more about. 377 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:24,640 The dynamics of forgiveness next week. 378 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:28,720 But today we just need to remember that one of the ways 379 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:32,560 that we show and see evidence of Christ in our lives is how we 380 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:35,640 forgive. You know, there's a a saying 381 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:38,200 that has earned the right to be a cliche. 382 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:44,560 If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, 383 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:48,880 it's probably a duck. Christians who have been 384 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,600 profoundly. Changed by Christ's forgiveness. 385 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:55,200 They speak a certain way, They feel a certain way. 386 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:58,880 They act a certain way. Which means that they. 387 00:25:00,360 --> 00:25:04,120 Study and practice and ask for God's help in forgiving others 388 00:25:04,120 --> 00:25:08,280 because they've been forgiven. Because the second-half of the 389 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:11,280 parable paints a rather grim scene. 390 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:13,560 That should be. For all of us as well, a 391 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:16,160 warning. Remember the story? 392 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:20,320 This servant who's been forgiven billions and billions of 393 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,320 dollars? This is what happens next. 394 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:28,080 But when that same servant went out, he found one of his fellow 395 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:30,600 servants who owed him. 100 Denarii. 396 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:33,880 What are these words again? How much money is that? 397 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:36,040 I don't usually use the word denarii. 398 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:41,840 Now this is a significant debt, probably represents, you know, 399 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:47,320 1/4 of a year of salary, maybe 10s of thousands of dollars. 400 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:53,960 Not insignificant, and yet in the parable it's being compared 401 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:58,800 to 10s of billions. So the point is any forgiveness 402 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:01,200 that we withhold. Relative to the. 403 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:02,840 Forgiveness that we have been given. 404 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:06,080 Is rat, might as well. Be an infinite gap. 405 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:13,280 Look at how quickly it descends into violence and seizing him. 406 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:16,160 He began to. Choke him saying pay what you 407 00:26:16,360 --> 00:26:20,560 owe. So his fellow servant same 408 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:22,800 response. Fellow servant fell down and 409 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,440 pleaded with him. Have patience with me and I will 410 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:31,760 pay you. He refused and went and put him 411 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:34,960 in prison until he should pay the debt. 412 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:39,560 This creates a scandal among. The servants and they're going 413 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:40,520 to go tell. On him. 414 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:42,600 Good. When his fellow servants saw 415 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:45,040 what had taken place, they were greatly distressed. 416 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:48,360 They went and reported to their master all that had taken. 417 00:26:48,360 --> 00:26:50,640 Place. And his master? 418 00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:54,600 Summoned him and said to him, You wicked servant, I forgave 419 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:56,520 you all that debt because you pleaded with me. 420 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:01,040 And should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant, as 421 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:04,840 I had mercy on you? And in anger, his master 422 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,600 delivered him to the jailers until he should pay all his 423 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:09,920 debt. Jesus. 424 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:13,400 Concludes this way so also my heavenly Father. 425 00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:15,640 Will do to. Everyone of you, if you do not 426 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,280 forgive your brother from your heart. 427 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:21,800 Our forgiveness of others does not 'cause God's. 428 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:23,520 Forgiveness. It shows that. 429 00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:26,920 We've been forgiven. It's a characteristic. 430 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:30,920 Sign of a believer. Now we'll talk next week a 431 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:32,840 little bit about consequences. That doesn't mean that there's 432 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:34,640 no consequences. You can forgive somebody and 433 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:37,320 there can still be grave. Consequences. 434 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:40,440 But the Christian has been so. Changed. 435 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:42,840 And they are praying for a. Forgiving heart that they have. 436 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:46,360 A A stance and a readiness. To forgive, no matter what the 437 00:27:46,360 --> 00:27:50,160 consequences may be. And I love the way. 438 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:57,000 Paul puts it in Ephesians 4. Be kind to one another, tender 439 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:02,400 hearted, forgiving one another as God and Christ forgave you. 440 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:06,000 Friends, I don't know where you are with this. 441 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,000 If there's something that you need to be able to release and 442 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:13,840 to forgive, we're going to move into a communion time and we'll 443 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:18,400 consider how the forgiveness that we are granted bit by bit 444 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:22,760 comes daily, kind of like this communion meal comes. 445 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:28,760 May you be strengthened. The forgiveness that we so 446 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:31,640 desperately need is. Provided by the gift of Jesus 447 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:36,440 Christ, who died for our sins. Was buried and rose again. 448 00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:39,960 Hallelujah. I've been concluding by inviting 449 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:41,640 you to pray with me the Lord's Prayer. 450 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:44,080 If you don't know the Lord's Prayer, that's OK, You can just 451 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:47,160 listen. When we get to the part about. 452 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:50,440 Debts and trespasses and sins, we'll say trespasses, just to 453 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:52,440 make it easier for us to all say the same thing. 454 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:57,760 Will you pray with me, our Father, who art in heaven, 455 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:03,400 hallowed be thy name, Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done 456 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:08,520 on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day Our Daily 457 00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:13,520 Bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those 458 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:18,520 who trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation, but 459 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:22,520 deliver us from evil. For thine is the Kingdom, the 460 00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:25,040 power, and the glory, and forever. 461 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:26,240 Amen.