Forgiven Debts and Deliverance from the Evil One

``So if you're in a moment where you're driving down the road and somebody cuts you off and you have an angry thought at them and then you crash into a tree and you didn't ask for forgiveness right before you died, guess what? You're still gonna see Jesus because he purchased you and those who the father holds can never be snatched out of his hand. So we ask, forgive us our debts. Are you a forgiving person? I would encourage you to ask people around you, do you see me forgive? Am I quick to forgive or do I always bring up things from the past? We want to be like our heavenly father and to not hold these things against one another, especially when they've come to you to ask for forgiveness. And then for those who've sinned against you and have not asked for forgiveness, you still seek the face of the Lord and trust that vengeance is his and he will be righteous for his name's sake. [00:49:27] (58 seconds)

Your debt is completely washed away. And here's the thing, the reason why it's a daily thing is not so that our debt is washed away and then throughout the day, we start to build it up and it gets to a little bit of debt, a little bit of debt, and then we need to pray to God and it gets washed away. No. It's just to have a posture of that God will always forgive us in Christ Jesus, that we are daily a sinner, but notice how this prayer starts, our father. You see, that's what orients the whole thing. And the reason that's so important is that your kids, as you know, will sin against you and they'll disobey over and over again, but no father disowns his kid. Right? And you and I, we will sin and we will create debt over and over again, but the thing is God doesn't just wash it all away and start us at zero, but rather he washes away all of our debt in Jesus Christ and he adopts us and we become sons and daughters of his kingdom and we can call him father never to be disowned by him again. There's no amount of sin we can do where he says that's too much. If you believe in Jesus Christ, he has mercifully washed away all of your sin. That 10,000 talents gone. [00:48:18] (68 seconds)

That's a pretty terrible circumstance if you can imagine watching your wife taken away from you, your children, and everything you've worked for to be gone and to be sold and to never see it again. Verse 26, at this, the servant fell face down before him and said, be patient with me and I will pay you everything. What a foolish claim, as if he could pay him everything. But isn't that the way we feel in our own sin? Well, God, I'm struggling a little bit, but I can I can make my way out of this? Just give me a little more time, God. I can I can get a little bit stronger? I can read a little bit more. I can listen to enough sermons. I can do enough nice things, I can kind of dig my way out of this debt. I can do it, just the foolishness of that. But then the master of that servant had compassion and he released him and he forgave him the loan. [00:39:21] (55 seconds)

When the other servants saw what had taken place, they were deeply distressed and went and reported to their master everything that had happened. Then after he had summoned him, his master said to him, you wicked servant, I forgave you all that debt because you begged me. Shouldn't you also have had mercy on your fellow servant as I had mercy on you? And because he was angry, his master handed him over to the jailers to be tortured until he could pay everything that was owed, which will be endless. So also my heavenly father will do to you unless every one of you forgives his brother or sister from your heart. What a strong word. Who are you angry at? Who owes you an apology? Who have you not forgiven? [00:41:30] (60 seconds)