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🗓️ 27 May 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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In this sermon based on Matthew 18:21-35, Dr. Mark Rutland addresses the profound theme of forgiveness. Central to the message is the parable of the unmerciful servant, which Jesus uses to illustrate the boundless and merciful nature of divine forgiveness compared to human pettiness and vengefulness. The sermon explores the challenges of forgiving and receiving forgiveness, emphasizing the transformative power of grace in overcoming deep-seated resentments and personal failings.
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0:25.0 | Let's go right into the service. |
0:28.0 | Recorded at Freechapel, I believe it's going to bless you today. If you have your Bibles, if you'll take those and turn, if you will, to the book of Matthew |
0:38.9 | the 18th chapter, Matthew, Chapter 18. |
0:43.6 | While you're turning there, let me say this to you. |
0:47.2 | I, those of you who know me through the years, you know how I am, I'm a precise person I don't like hip shots I have a |
0:58.8 | plan I make a plan I work the plan I always I always say if you don't plan to succeed, you're planning to fail. |
1:07.6 | And so I like a plan. |
1:10.1 | And I had a sermon that I'd planned to give. |
1:12.6 | I came over and spent the night here |
1:14.0 | so I wouldn't drive all the way from Carter'sville this morning. |
1:16.7 | Spent the night in Gainesville last night. |
1:19.2 | I woke up this morning and had my coffee and I felt clearly God say set your plan aside and |
1:28.3 | preach this sermon this morning, Lord, you know that. He said, Lord, you know that I don't like that. |
1:40.0 | He said, I know, do it anyway. |
1:46.6 | It's just not my style. So this morning, I felt clearly led to lay that aside. |
1:51.5 | Next time I come, I'll inflict that, I'll preach that message here. |
1:55.8 | But what it makes me think is that this particular message for somebody or some bodies maybe many here or at one of the |
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