J: Yeah, that’s what he was saying, because they lived under eye- for eye, tooth for tooth. You hit me, I hit you. And he thought Jesus was going to say, “Oh, Peter, you got it. Blessed you are.” But Jesus looks at him and says, “Not seven times seven, seventy times seven.” And in Luke’s gospel He said, “In a day.” Now that’s 490 times in one day. Now if I was to sin against you 490 times in one day, I’d have to do it once every three minutes, provided you and I don’t go to sleep. That’s heavy duty.
And Jesus said, “Look, let me tell you a parable, Peter. Make sure you get this. You have a servant that owes this king $4.5 billion.” I’m going to shorten this. That’s an un payable debt. What we owed God was an un payable debt. Jesus chose to forgive us before we ever said, “I am sorry.” Now this is what Christians don’t understand. I’ve heard so many believers say to me, “I’ll forgive them when they say I’m sorry.” Well, if Jesus were to have done that with us, He never would have forgiven us from the cross. He hung from the cross and said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they’re doing.” And He was not only speaking to them, but He was speaking to us in generations down passed. So if a person says, “I’ll forgive them when they come and say I’m sorry,” they’re holding on to un forgiveness, which will eventually develop as a root of bitterness, which will fuel sickness and disease. And we’ll get into that in a minute.
But the reason a person cannot forgive is because they’ve forgotten what they’ve been forgiven of. We deserve now let me tell you what you and I deserve, every one of us we deserved hell. When Adam sinned against God, the Father could have looked at the Son and said, “They disobeyed us. They chose the devil. Let them all ago to hell. We’re going to go over and create another universe and create somebody that really loves us.” But God chose when we didn’t deserve it, to send His Son. And Jesus left glory and came, and He died on the cross for us when we did not deserve it. Now a Christian that does not realize what he’s been forgiven of as a Christian doesn’t have a revelation of hell. I wish every believer could see hell for 30 seconds.
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