Hey everybody and welcome back to I Just Want to talk about the Bible.

If this is your first time joining us, then let me just welcome you and say that I'm very glad that you're here.

My name is Christian Keeter, and I live in the southeast of the United States of America

with my amazing, beautiful, godly wife Lacey and our two

wonderful daughters, Felicity and Serenity. So yesterday morning, I had an interesting experience.

As soon as I woke up, very first thing, immediately a passage of scripture came to my mind.

And that's not the norm. That's not what normally happens. Normally I,

well, when I'm spending time with the Lord, was to continue to work through, pray through,

um, look up scriptures on journal about stuff that he's already showing me, just trying to really

wrap my head around the lessons that he's been teaching me. Um, but this morning in particular,

first thing, woke up and boom, scripture immediately brought to my mind.

So needless to say, that's what I was reading that morning, yesterday morning, that's what I went and

spent my time looking into. And this scripture is the parable of the unforgiving servant,

which is found in Matthew 18, which is what we're going to look at today.

And there were a few things in particular out of the passage that really stood out to me,

as well as there's a few things that I feel like the Lord showed me about my own heart through this process, but I will discuss those as we go through that.

So let's go ahead and go to Matthew 18.

I'm actually going to back up a little bit, just for the sake of context a little bit, because

we love context. So in Matthew 18, see, let's start in verse 15 here. And this is Jesus speaking, and he

says, if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he

listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you,

that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen

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