So yesterday on the way home from Kansas City, it was like a three hour drive and I ended up

reading out loud for like a solid hour and a half. So my voice is a little worn.

This is the Baymaw podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host Brent Billings. Today I am with

Redent to talk about the story of the unforgiving servant and the end of bookkeeping and seeing

our enemies as ourselves. I just want to say Brent, you've gotten really good at doing that introduction.

Well not only the end of bookkeeping but the end of the series on parables. So for now.

Sad times. Sad times. Who knows what will happen after this? But yeah it's the end for now and

decided to end it with this one. Which I don't know for me and I think for many people is an intensely

personal parable. It's an intensely personal topic. The topic of forgiveness. And I just want to

start by actually just acknowledging. I always like to acknowledge this whenever I'm talking to

a group about forgiveness. And that is there is an inherent difficulty in talking about forgiveness

to a bunch of people all at once. Because for some people what kind of goes on in their mind is

they're thinking about something, excuse me, they're thinking about something relatively trivial.

And for some people what they're thinking about is something that has deeply wounded them.

And so we talk about forgiveness but the things that go on like the experiences that people have

where maybe they are being nudged toward forgiveness are very very different things. And some are

very very difficult to come to terms with forgiving and others are not so difficult. So I just

like to acknowledge that straight up like I am aware that people are coming from lots of different

places. I'm aware of the difficulty of practicing forgiveness. This is like one of my life's quests

with a certain personal relationship in my own life. And just over many years now has been something

that I've learned a lot about. So I just want to say that to start. Yeah. Good thing to consider

for sure. But I think maybe of the parables that we've done like the Good Samaritan and the

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