If God has so forgiven you, are you forgiving each other?

And if you're not, that is the height of evil, that you should take so much forgiveness

and give so little.

Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur. I'm your host, Phil Johnson. Can you imagine owing a debt so huge that you could never even hope to pay it off? That's precisely the

position you are in and every person is in as far as

sin is concerned. We have a sin debt that we cannot cancel, and the terms of that debt, well,

they can't be renegotiated. The question you need to ask then is, what hope is there?

That question is at the heart of John MacArthur's message today. So stay here as

John walks you through a vivid parable that Jesus taught. It's one that helps you understand the

enormity of your sin and God's amazing willingness to forgive and the forgiveness you need to

offer when a fellow believer sins against you. The title of John's series, My Brother's

Keeper. Now here's John with the lesson. Let's look at the parable in verse 23. Therefore,

the kingdom of heaven is likened unto a certain king who would take account of his servants.

And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought to him

who owed him 10,000 talents. Now look at verse 25 and see what happened. So the man was brought to

accounting for as much as he had nothing with which to pay. Now, this is the most dire circumstance imaginable. His Lord commanded him to be sold

and his wife and children and all that he had and payment to be made. Now, this is just punishment,

friends. This is a real debt, not an artificial one. The parable indicates that the man had embezzled the money from the king.

He didn't even have any of it to pay.

There was no way to recover it.

The punishment is very severe, very severe.

Sell the man into slavery, sell his wife into slavery, sell all his kids into slavery, get what you can,

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