I was reading this morning about a man who could not pay to his king, a debt, a large

debt and he came and begged the king, asked for forgiveness.

And he actually did not ask to forgive his dead. He asked to have patience while he pays down his debt, which is pretty dumb prayer

because the amount that he owed, there was no way in this earth he would be able to pay it down.

I think somebody calculated he needed over 300 lives to be able to pay down that dead.

So he was asking for something that was so unrealistic.

And the king, the Bible says he had compassion on the servant.

He forgave him his dead and released him.

And this servant goes in and finds a guy who owes him very

little in comparison to what he owes. He puts his hand on the guy's throat and he begins to choke him,

throws him in prison. And next thing you know, the king hears about it and the king reverses his forgiveness.

And I find that kind of scary. He reverses his forgiveness.

And the Bible says this, and the king was angry.

I find it interesting that when the man could not pay his

dead, the king had compassion but when the man didn't forgive someone the king

was angry. Most of us think it's the other way around. We think that when we

commit sin and we come in repentance before God that

God is angry now realizing that God has compassion for the sinner repentant

broken contrite sinner but when a sinner that's been forgiven refuses to forgive someone else. Whatever the excuses are,

no matter how difficult it is, no matter how easy it is to stay offended, and honestly, no matter what the crime is that the person committed against us or what the unfair treatment that

was committed against us. God is provoked to anger. And so I just want to, I, this is for somebody

who is right now feels like they have a right to not forgive.

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