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The Parable of the Two Debtors teaches us about God's gift of mercy, forgiveness, and grace. However, did you know that the story that surrounds this parable could teach us powerful lessons that will surely magnify the deep meaning of the parable?
In this video, I invite you to go through Luke 7:41-43 and delve into the wise words of our Master and Savior!
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Well brethren have you ever stopped and wondered what it means to be forgiven
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Sometimes we forget about the seriousness and magnitude of God's forgiveness toward us and now brethren this is actually March 23 and just a
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little bit or just about a month from now we are going to keep the Passover
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and this is high time for us to reflect one of the meanings the great
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significance of this day which is the forgiveness that you receive from God
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through the death and sacrifice of our Lord and Master Yeshua. That's why
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brethren I want us to take into consideration this afternoon the importance of forgiveness and one of the best ways to better understand this
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concept is through going to the one of the most or I would say most important
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parables of Yeshua and in this parable we will better understand what it means
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for God to forgive us and to extend the same love grace and mercy to other
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people. So brethren I would like to invite you to look into the parable of
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the two debtors. The parable of the two debtors. Let's go there brethren and this
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is the only passage that I have for you so we are going to focus into the story
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now I'm not just going to talk about the parable itself but I would like us to go
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through the story itself that why did Yeshua give this story or this parable
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why did he what what are the what is the situation that has led him to give this
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parable and by doing so brethren we will have a bigger or deeper understanding
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of what this parable will mean. So this is the lessons that we will receive or
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we will acquire from the parable the two debtors. So let's go there brethren
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let's start reading Luke 7 verse 36 Luke 7 verse 36 then one of the Pharisees so
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later we will see that this the name of this Pharisee is Simon. One of the
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Pharisees asked him to eat with him so Simon invited Yeshua to go to his home
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and have meal with him and he went to the Pharisee's house and sat down to eat
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and behold a woman the city who was a sinner so this woman is a known sinner
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within that place and what's so interesting about this woman brethren is
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that we know that everyone is a sinner but this particular woman maybe people
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have seen this woman to have exceeded the average level of being a sinful woman so
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a lot of people knew that this woman is sinful and some scholars assume that
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this woman is a prostitute so this woman heard that Yeshua is in that house in
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the house of that Pharisee and when she knew that Yeshua sat at the table in
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the Pharisee's house brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil and stood
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at his feet behind him weeping. Alright so by reading this verse we probably
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don't really appreciate the depth and the impact or the magnitude of the
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action of this woman so actually if you think about it it takes a lot of courage
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for this woman to approach Yeshua the one who can forgive sin in her life
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because if you knew the culture at the time how can a sinful woman know to that
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place to approach Yeshua and even in entering the house of a righteous
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Pharisee so this is a big surprise this is unexpected this is something that
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Yeshua and other people have not really are not prepared for so all of a sudden
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they're eating they're eating and suddenly there's this woman coming inside and bringing alabaster flask and fragrant oil and what did he do
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brethren what did she do and she began to wash his feet with her ears and wipe
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them with the hair of her head and she kissed his feet and anointed them with
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the fragrant oil. Now this is very controversial at that time brethren you
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know why because in that in that society for a woman to let down her hair
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it's a an action of being seductive it is something that a normal a moral
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normal woman would never do right in the public and she was doing this and what
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else did he do she do if it weren't because of her tears people have might
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be thinking that she was seducting or seducing Yeshua because she was kissing
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the feet so this is actually a controversial action by the in the in
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the in the part of the woman and so a lot of these people were thinking oh no
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this woman is immoral this woman is sinful what is she doing here and people
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were thinking of themselves the right thing to do here is to push away this
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woman reject her and just to put her away so they were expecting Yeshua to do
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the same and yet what did Yeshua did you know what did Yeshua did here he says
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we read here or we now see the reaction of Simon here which represented
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the usual or the normal reaction of the people around him look at this verse 39
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now when the Parsi who had invited him saw this he spoke himself so maybe no
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balloon or or he was just telling himself this man talking about Yeshua if
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he were a prophet would know who and what manner of woman is is who is
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for she is a sinner so in the mind of Simon that in the mind of Simon that
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this woman does not deserve to be in his house to be in front of the teacher he
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was so convinced that this woman should be rejected to the point that he he he
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thought that Yeshua is not a prophet when we see here brethren and to the
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surprise of Simon Yeshua does not only knew the heart of the woman she also he
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also knew the heart of Simon that's why in verse 40 brethren says and Yeshua
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answered he answered and said to him Simon I have something to say to you so
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this is where the parable of the two debtors comes in and he said teacher
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say it in verse 41 there was a certain creditor who had two debtors one owed
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five hundred denarii and the other 50 so these two in the parable there were two
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first there are two people the one owed 50 denarii and the other is about 500
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denarii so according to scholars one denarii is or one denarius is
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equivalent to a day's wage so we have this one person who has who was was a
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debt of 50 denarii so it is equivalent to about two months of salary and the
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other is about two years of salary now the two people here does not have or do
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not have the same amount of of debt but the one common denominator denominator
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here is that both of them cannot pay it anymore so both of them even though the
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one the other one has bigger debt both of them cannot pay it anymore and so
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what did the creditor do says here in verse 42 and when they had nothing with
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which to repay he freely forgave them both tell me therefore so this is the
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question of Yahshua to Simon tell me therefore which of them will love him
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more so Simon was sensing I think this is a tricky question I think I think I
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love you not to do more though that's why he did not answer immediately he said
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here and I am Simon answered and said I suppose so he was kind of hesitant to
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answer the question because he knew that this is going to be about him he
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says I suppose the one whom we forgave more and so Yahshua said you have
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rightly judged verse 44 when he turned to the woman said to Simon do you see
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this woman now why would Yahshua ask Simon this question do you see this
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woman you know what brother you know why because Simon cannot see the woman
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he was so blinded by self-righteousness that he cannot see a woman there all he
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could see was the woman's sin and yet when Yahshua saw the woman he saw a
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woman that needs mercy grace and forgiveness that's why brethren it is
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very important for us to have compassion to other people because you
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know why because all of us are sinners all of us have fallen short of the glory
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of God that's why you cannot say now you cannot um you cannot fully compare
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yourself to others saying that oh look at this this this is a sinner this is
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someone is worse sinner than me and yet that is only natural for us when we see
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someone is committing when you see a drug addict how many of us have really
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thought that oh this person needs forgiveness the first thing that comes
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into our mind is that person deserves it that person needs to be sent to jail
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when we see people who are committing who is a drug in in death who are
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drowned in their sins or living since we don't usually see people who need
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forgiveness we see people who need condemnation we need see we see people
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who need punishment that's the natural thing to do here brethren but yet
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Yahshua was trapping us to see a person who needs mercy grace and forgiveness
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that's why brethren he asked do you see this woman I entered your house you
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gave me no water for my feet but she has washed my feet with her tears and wiped
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them with the hair of her head you gave me no kiss but this woman has not ceased
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to kiss my feet since the time I came in you did not anoint my head with oil but
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this woman has anointed my feet with fragrant oil therefore I say to you her
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sins which are many are forgiven for she loved much but to whom little is
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forgiven the same loves little now I want to extract important lessons here
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for all of us now let me just give you at least three of them here the first
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lesson is this this lesson or this parables teaching us that it teaches us
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that we are all singers and no matter how big or small our sins are you don't
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have the ability to pay them back your sins have been you don't have the ability to pay it back that's why
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brethren we must not be proud of ourselves and say we are more righteous
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than others you know why because our righteousness is just equivalent to
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filthy rags we cannot simply say that oh look at me I sin little compared to
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this person who sin so big and so I'm better than this person no we cannot say
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that oh look at this look at this um look at this church look at this um look
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at this congregation look at their their leaders look at their members you know sometimes we are good at judging and judging others
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and yet we didn't see that on our own turf on our church we are doing the same
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thing or sometimes we kind of think that other people are worse sinners than us
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and yet we are just sinning in different way that's why brethren the message of
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this parable is that we should not think highly too much of ourselves because no
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matter how big or small your sin is every sin deserves death penalty and we
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cannot pay the penalty of sin and number two it teaches us that no amount of sin
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God cannot forgive no matter how big or small your sin is God can forgive that
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that's why when you committed sin brethren do not run away from God run
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towards him because that's the only way your sin will be forgiven and number
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three brethren it teaches us that God's mercy is infinite can you just imagine
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brethren if our Savior is like Simon someone who God is not in the business
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of condemning other people he is in the business of saving other people that's
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why he sent his son for us so that our sins would be forgiven and so in verse
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48 brethren we see we read here then he said to her to the sinful woman your
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sins are forgiven and those who sat at the table with him began to say to
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themselves who is this who even forgive sins and then verse 50 then he said to
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the woman your faith has saved you go in peace now what a wonderful way to
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give benediction to the woman you see brethren being forgiven should give us
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the peace of mind we should have the confidence that our sins have really
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been forgiven and because of this reference because God has extended this
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this forgiveness to us we must also extend this to other people now you
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might say oh that's very nice Joshua that's a very nice teaching from the
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Bible so so it's so it's so nice to the ears and yet brethren you know what by
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the time someone betrays you by the time someone offends you this teaching can
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s can easily be forgotten it can easily be thrown out of the window why because
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the natural thing to do is to be to be full of bitterness hatred we don't want
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to forgive we want to take revenge and yet brethren because we are forgiven
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then we ought to forgive other people now finally brethren I want us to
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remember this we must not be like the like Simon or other people have been
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forgiven you know what brethren because not everyone who has been forgiven of
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their death are happy have you ever experienced that brethren someone someone borrowed money to you and instead of being happy because you have
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you have lent money to them they become angry they become um I remember one time
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when I I let someone I let I lent someone money and then she forgot to pay
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and I asked her to I told her that I need the money and she told me that
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Josh so it is really something that sometimes people who are forgiven are
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not really that grateful and that is very dangerous you know why brethren
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because we don't take it seriously the forgiveness that we have received and
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because of that we don't see the need to overcome sin because it is very easy
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to be forgiven a month so I will just keep on sinning I would just ask for forgiveness but if we become we will become like this woman brethren when we
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it is like this brethren the bigger the sin the bigger the grace that is needed
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to be forgiven and because of that brethren we must not forget that it
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needs a big grace for us for our sins to be forgiven and that is how serious
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our sin is and so brethren this is the importance or this is the message of the
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parable of the two debtors so brethren no matter what sins you have
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committed it requires the death of our Savior because of great love mercy and
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grace of our Heavenly Father brethren we ought to extend the same love to
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other people and when we may we not forget the true meaning of God's
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forgiveness and how we should respond to his great love toward us
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