Matthew : Season 3 - Week 3

MATTHEW : SEASON 3 - Teach Us To Pray

Perhaps the most difficult line in the Lord’s Prayer is where Jesus says that we are to seek God’s forgiveness for the things we’ve done wrong at the same time we forgive other people who have wronged us.  This isn’t about God manipulating us with threats - just an articulation that being people of God means receiving and giving forgiveness.  We cannot have one posture toward God, and another posture toward people. It’s not that we shouldn’t, it’s that it’s impossible.  Jesus says, in stark language, that forgiveness is non-optional because that’s who God is and who He wants us to become.

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