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Feeding the Sheep - Living the New Life 7

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" Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others." -Apostle Paul, 1st century Colossians 3:13 [This is the  22nd message of this series] This lesson is intended for mature believers (or adulting believers). For a more orderly study, please go through all the  previous messages  first, if you haven't yet. New Nature This is the  7th part of this  series , within a series. To continue, we were talking about how the Apostle Paul is telling the first church in Colassae what "to do",  in place of the things we have started to quit doing. Physics For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Think about it, once you quit wanting things, once you stop greed in its tracks, you would have so much free time that you wouldn't know what to do with it.  Forgiveness One of the things you can do is to forgive , forgive and forget -- to let it go. As far as the east

Parables - Teaching 18

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The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant "Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times (or seventy times seven) . “Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants. When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made. So the servant fell on his knees, imploring him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you everything.’ And out of pity for him, the master of that servant released him and forgave him the debt. But when that same servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii, and seizing him, he began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay what you owe.’ So his fellow servant