Consider what happened to the unforgiving servant in Matthew 18: 23-28. He sought more time to pay off an impossible debt. The indebted king released him from the debt out of compassion.
Unfortunately, this servant still believed that he could pay off the debt, and even when the kind had compassion on him and loosed him from his debt. He then right away hit up another servant, one who owed him practically nothing compared to the debt from which the king had looosed him:
"But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest.
"And his fellowservant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
"And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt." (Matthew 18: 28-30)
The second servant begged for the same mercy in the same exact manner as the first servant, yet the first servant, still conscious of paying a debt, felt justified in putting the second servant into prison.
If we choose not to forgive, we make ourselves prisoners who frustrate the grace of God in our lives (Galatians 2: 21; 5: 4), because we are convinced that we must work and strive for what we need.
God demonstrated forever forgiveness of us forevermore through His Son's death at the Cross. We have received forever forgiveness for all our sins, where God more than paid our debt, according us also His infinite riches (Ephesians 1: 3). Since we have been so blessed, since we now reign in life as kingly priests, let us behave as becomes kings in the Kingdom of Heaven, let us forgive everyone who has wronged us, knowing that we have been more than cleared and compensated for our sins.
The more that we understand our royal standing before God, the more that we rejoiced in His restoration and promotion through the blood of His Son, and therefore we can easily forgive others!
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