The greatest sins that a man commits against a man are nothing.

Their pocket change compared to the sins committed against God.

And God forgives them all.

And who is men?

Not to forgive lesser.

How can we be so small as not to forgive another.

Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

In the book, The Sunflower, Simon Wiesenthal,

tells the story of when he was a prisoner in the Nazi death camp,

he was taken to speak to a dying Nazi soldier because the soldier wanted a Jew's forgiveness for the crimes he had committed

as a member of the dreaded Nazi secret police. And that scenario raises the question,

are there limits to what we should forgive or can forgive? That's the point John McArthur addresses today on

Grace to You. He's continuing a hard-hitting study on a theme that maybe new to many people. It's the

issue of Christian discipline and restoring a sinning brother or sister. He's titled his study,

My Brother's Keeper. And now with today's lesson, here's John MacArthur.

Now there is a key verse that you perhaps ought to write in the margin of your Bible,

right at the point of Matthew 18, verses 21 and following.

And that verse is Ephesians 432, because that one verse sums up the intent of this passage.

It says, and be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God,

for Christ's sake, hath forgiven you.

A great injunction to forgiveness forgiveness since God has forgiven us so much.

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