Hey, my friends, I'm Matt, this is the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast, and we're in the

middle of a conversation that we started yesterday about the second half of Matthew chapter 18,

the parable about the unmerciful servant who got forgiven a ton, but then wouldn't turn

around and forgive someone who owed him a little. We're looking at that passage and thinking

about it in light of second Samuel 12, which is a passage where David heard a story about someone

doing something unjust and really got angry and was like, that person deserves to die and then

Nathan the prophet who was telling David this story turns to him and he's like, you are the man

and David has this shock moment of what his spirit of not forgiveness and judgment means when it

reflects back on him. All right, we'll play a little music and we'll pick up where we left off

yesterday. The truth of the matter is we live in a fallen world and we have problems and we

screw stuff up, whether it's born out of our clumsy child heart and our insecurities or whether as

it often is, though we hesitate to admit it, it's born out of simply malice or selfishness. One

way or the other, we got problems, but weirdly right now, we are all very invested, not just in

church, but in society in general, in trying our hand at this never forgive thing, at this

ruthless one strike and your out culture that we are nurturing. This is to our own detriment

and I understand there are victims and victims need justice and that's part of the deal,

but the way we go about it right now, this is not the way and it is perilous to our own souls

to nurture this ruthless unforgiveness. We saw off the branch on which we sit when we do this

unforgiveness is a dark magic we think we can control, but it controls us. Forgiveness isn't just

some nice gesture we offer other people externally. It is a transformative thing that demonstrates a

connection between us and the first cause, the perfect, the flawless that made everything, the

standard, the actual truth. Every time we externally and internally choose forgiveness, what we're

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