Tag Archive: debtors’ prison

A Visit with the Second Servant in Debtors’ Prison

Links: This post read as a YouTube video. Full playlist for this series. Remember the other servant?  The one the Unforgiving Servant threw in prison instead of showing him mercy?  I thought so.  Most people don’t. I know nearly everyone thinks this story is only about the relationship between the Lord and the Unforgiving Servant.  That’s why it is usually…
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A Visit with the Unforgiving Servant on the Rack.  What did he Still Owe?

Links: This post read as a You Tube video. Full playlist for this series. We now continue with the story of the first servant—the one whose Lord forgave him an astronomically large debt, but who then wouldn’t forgive his fellow servant a debt of three months’ wages.  While the two servants were the only parties to the debt, they were…
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Is Infinite Forgiveness shown to Us by God? Are We Supposed to Do the Same?

Links: This post read as a YouTube video . Full playlist for this series. The next part of Jesus’ discussion of forgiveness in Matthew 18 asks the question “is infinite forgiveness shown to us by God. and are we supposed to do the same?” Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me,…
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My Next Fool’s Errand: Justifying continued prayer for other believers who have told me I must “forget” them because of an offense

Preliminary outline of two series dealing with mutual imprisonment by unforgiveness, God’s goal of reconciliation, and praying for those who don’t want my prayers using constructive, New Testament prayers.

Both of the Debtors in the Parable of the Unforgiving Servant Ended up in Debtors’ Prison

The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant in Matthew 18 shows that an unresolved offense keeps both parties imprisoned, bound from service, though only the unforgiving one is tortured by their unforgiveness.