Tag Archive: parable of the unforgiving servant

Other People Were Affected, Too—The Lord’s “Other Servants”

But the damage didn’t stop with the Unforgiving Servant and the Unforgiven Servant. The Lord’s “other servants” were also affected. Matthew 18:23-24 (WEB) Recall how the matter started. The Lord was settling accounts with his “servants,” plural, when one servant with a huge debt was brought before him. That servant begged the Lord for mercy, and the Lord gave him…
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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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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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