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TEACHING FORGIVENESS.
.ESSON VIII, INTERNATIONAL SUN
s i DAY SCHOOL SERIES, FEB. 19.
frext of the Lesson, Matt, xviii, 21-35.
Golden Text. Matt, vl, 12—Memorize
^Verses 21-22—Comment by Rev. Wil
liam Newton, 1>. D.
[From Lesson Helper Quarterly, by permission of
H. 8. Hoffman, Philadelphia, publisher.]
.Notes.—My jventy brother, or fellow disciple,
times seven, or indefinitely for 490
l imes; clearly mark the unlimited exercise of
f |;hey orgiveness. Take account, see how much
owed. Servants, officers, or those in
f^rge of ' ome trust. Talents, a talent was
, (XX) shekels, and a shekel of silver was about
Sfty cents. Went out, i. e M from his Lord’s the
presence. Hundred pence, a pence was
toman denarius, valued about fourteen
*<rts. Wroth, very angry. Tormentors,
tfficers of tho prison. Likewise, in the same
vay. Trespasses, sins or wrongs against
'OU.
ould not be required to go. Now the rabbis
night that three was that limit. Peter,
perefore, doubled that number and added
le truth. But just here, how far—how very
M>rd statd even in this dispensation of the
JPcn unlimited number? “Even as I had
.v on thee” is the divine measure. And
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itil that is reached we must forgive as
jw eely as we have been forgiven.
23. The whole doctrine of forgiveness is
# rated in this parable. God’s forgive
Bust Es
of us is the reason why we should for
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7. 24. No doubt these servants were
officers to whom some public trust had been
confided. And this special one had prob¬
ably farmed out some jiortion of the king’s
I domain. In no other way is it easy to sco
how such an enormous debt could bo created.
; For talent of silver would be about $1,500,
a
and “ten thousand talents” would sum up to
i $15,000,000. A talent of gold would, of
! course, be proportionably greater. And if
by this enormous sum tho master meant to
. i God, it is most
represent our sias against a
tended search was needed. The proof lay
upon tho surface. The records of tho case at
onco revealed it. There was tho proof of tho
debt. And there was no escape from it.
^nd if that great debt represent our sins bo¬
f oro God, how fitting is the statement, “one
, was brought unto him, etc.” For this debtor
wou iq not have come of himself. The king's
j ;en g ers brought him. And so in the case
our s j ns . The king has many messengers
to bring us into his presence and open before
us reC0 rd of our sins. And as we
sur vey the record, there is no answer to
^ ie question, “Is not thy wickedness
; g rea t, and thine iniquity infinite?” Job
xxii, 5. j
great truths are illustrated by the para
ble, i. e., for-
1. There is no limit to the exercise of
2. He who has received forgiveness froni
God, will always extend it lb mam
V. 2S-30. It is a most significant point
that it was when the “servant went out,”i. e.
—from his lord’s presence—that he found his
HL own great need occupied him then. But
look up the little matters of his fellow serv
other. Yet this taking by the throat, this
Pay me that thou owest; this casting into
prison— how clearly all this tells of one who
has no sense of forgiveness in his own ex
perienco. Here again have the human
f V. 31-34. we
si de of the parable, tho- operations of the
“nanking” Beyond question, v. 34 mod
i ifies and explains v. 27. Clearly the debt
that was forgiven could not be wxtorced. and
the debt that was enforced could never have
been forgiven. So that the principle hero
involved is that the reality of tho divine for¬
giveness in a given case will be shown by tho
reality of out forgiveness of those who sin
against us. Thereis no such thing cs re-en¬
forcing tho penalty of sins that hail onco
been forgiven. The unmerciful servant wa s
not troubled by his great debt. He would
willingly havo made it larger if ho had no1/
been brought to the king. It was only tho.
penalty that troubled him. And ho whom
that servant represents is tho man who
thought he was converted when lw w .; only
terriiied, and who had no use for the i >vo oi
God beyond tho fact that in : r..ie way it
could save him from the penalty of hi.) sin.
And when ho goes out from tho Lora’s pres¬
ence; when his sense of danger is lost in tho
promises of the Gospel, the current of his old
nature flows on as Indore. Why should he
not have his hundred j>enee! Why should 1 j
not claim that which is his duef And so hi;
claim to be forgiven is proved by the rulii. ;
spirit of his life to liave^ccn utterly without
foundation. Tho principle, therefore, holds
good in every case, that he who refuses Vo
forgive shows that he himself had never be; a
forgiven. And now, in reviewing this par.
ble, we learn, absolute
1. That tho duty of forgiveness is /
unlimited. How, indeed, can it beotherwi: ,
if it flows out of what God has done for u ?
“Even as I had pity on thee,” is tho divi o
rule. Therefore to one who has been him sell
forgiven the right to refuse forgiveness do
not exist, How can we reach the limit of
our “seventy times seven ?”
2. Our sins against God are practical’./
without number. Is not this just tho moc -
ing of the ten thousand talents of tho parabl • i
“Wo cannot answer him one of a thousand.’'
3. The offenses of our fellow men against
ourselves are, in comparison, insignificant.
Viewed in any other light, measured by any
other standard, they may be very great. Put
the parable sets the one over against the
other; our 10.000 talents, with our fellow
servant’s 100 pence. And that comparison
remains. And the practical operation of this
truth is that because God has forgiven us
we ought also to forgive one another. It fol
lows from this that the power lead
ing to forgiveness is not one of toe
forces of our nature. It ia not native ami
ability of temper. It is simply and aline
the sense of God s pardoning love to u , How
ing out in forgiveness to others. As a no. s
sitv, then .ore, where tLe sen e of that I* vn
is aL-sei-t, that forgiveness eanaot
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