Jesus told a story of a servant that owed the king ten thousand talents. He could not pay the debt, so the king ordered him and his family to be sold for payment.
The servant fell down and worshipped him, asking for
patience and promising to pay all.
The king was moved with compassion, loosed him, and forgave
him the debt.
The same servant went to a fellowservant, which owed him an
hundred pence: he laid hands on him, took him by the throat and said, “Pay me
what you owe.”
The fellowservant fell down begging him, asking for patience
and promising to pay all, but he threw him into prison until he would pay the
debt.
When his fellow servants saw this, they were very sorry, and
told the king all that was done.
Then the king said to him, “You wicked servant, I forgave
you all your debt, because you asked me. Shouldn't you also have had compassion
on your fellowservant, even as I had on you?”
And the king was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors,
till he should pay all that was due unto him.
"So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you,
if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their
trespasses." - Matthew 18:35 KJV
[See Matthew 18:23 – Matthew 18:35 for the complete Bible
text of this story that Jesus told.]
When we could not pay our debt of sin, Jesus our King had
compassion on us and forgave us. Our sins have been forgiven and washed away by
the blood of Jesus when we repented and were water baptized in the name of
Jesus.
Because Jesus forgave us, He expects us to forgive others.
"And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought
against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your
trespasses. But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in
heaven forgive your trespasses." - Mark 11:25-26 KJV
"Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if
any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do
ye." - Colossians 3:13 KJV
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