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quite a good many times, Peter must have thought. He may have been sur prised at the answer Jesus gave him. Perhaps he thought the Lord Jesus had not understood him. LESSON STORY: Jesus said, “I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.” How many times does God forgive us? He forgives us every time that we come to Him and are sorry and promise to turn away from that sin. And that is the number of times that we should forgive one who has sinned against us. To help Peter and the others understand what He meant, Jesus told them a story. It was like this: There was once a king who went to one of his followers to collect a debt which he owed. This man owed his king ten thousand talents. That was a lot of money, and he couldn’t pay it. So the king ordered the man to be sold and also his wife and his children and all that he had so that the money could be paid. Then the man fell on his knees and begged the king to let him have time and he would pay it all. The king felt sorry for him and forgave him his entire debt. You would think that the man would have gone home rejoicing and would have forgiven any who owed him money. But not so. He went to a friend who owed him a very small debt and demanded that he pay it at once. Jesus was trying to tell Peter and the others that that is the way we act when we refuse to forgive those who have harmed us. God, like the king in the story, has forgiven us everything, and yet we are not willing to forgive our friends.
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with this question, “Lord, how oft shall my b r o t h e r sin a g a i n s t me, and I forgive him? till seven times ?” To forgive a person seven t i n « « was
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