Hey guys, I really want you to hear the episode today. We're going to talk about forgiveness,

not as something we have to do a certain number of times, but we're going to talk about

forgiveness as the outflow of a forgiven heart. And that is so important for us to understand. Listen in today. Welcome to everyday truth with

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Hey, friends. Welcome back. I want to apologize about the length of yesterday's podcast.

I know some of you are on a strict time frame and you're commuting and you're used to it being a certain length. And

man, I just went way long yesterday. But sometimes that happens. I'm going to try to do better

today. We're in Matthew 18 and verse number 21. Jesus has just given this great teaching

on what we call church discipline in Matthew 18. And Peter, as usual,

has something to say. And Peter says in verse 21, then came Peter to him and said, Lord, how often,

shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Okay. So Peter is saying, okay,

I heard what you said about my brother and sitting against me and going to him and forgiving him

and all of that. But, you know, I mean, enough's enough. How many times should I do that?

And I think Peter felt good about himself when he said, should I do it seven times?

And seven is a number of completion. And think about it. If somebody sinned against me seven different

times in the exact same way, and I forgave him, that would actually be pretty good, wouldn't it?

And so Peter is thinking in these,

in these terms. And Jesus said unto him, I say unto, unto the until, I say not unto thee,

until seven times, but until 70 times seven. I've actually heard people say, well, that means you need to forgive people

490 times, but on that 491st time, no, that's not what it means at all. Jesus is just using

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