Can I forgive someone who does not confess to wronging me?

It's a question from Jason who writes, Pastor John, Hello, as you know in Matthew 18 the

parable of the unforgiving servant ends with a dire warning to those who don't forgive.

So also my Heavenly Father will do to every one of you if you do not forgive your brother

from your heart.

As Matthew 18, 35 verse 34 explains the so of 35 and in anger his master delivered him to

the jailers until he should pay all his debts.

As Matthew 18, 34, I have a lot of questions about this passage but the main two are one,

can I abibbly forgive someone if they don't ask to be forgiven or can I just be disposed

or willing to forgive them if and when they ask?

What if I or they die before I can forgive them?

And the second question is can I abibbly forgive someone if they think they've done nothing

wrong to me? Pastor John, what would you say to Jason?

Right. So I hear at least three questions, can we forgive a person who doesn't think they've

done wrong and we think they have that that's really relevant to marriage by the way.

Right. Right. I think that happens a lot in marriage.

Another one that he asks it seems is or if they don't ask for forgiveness,

can forgiveness proceed and and then lastly what if I die before I forgive them or they ask?

So let's let's start with Jesus teaching about forgiveness because

it really is as important as Jason shows it to be and here's what Jesus says.

He says to pray like this, forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors and then

unpacks it. That's Matthew 6 verse 12, I think. And then he unpacks it in verse 14,

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