Q. Is there a limit to the amount of forgiveness we offer? Matthew 18:21-35 A. No, we have received and are expected to give an unlimited supply of forgiveness.
a) Can the offender exhaust their allowance? Can they sin so much that you are no longer required to forgive?
No, extent of the forgiveness that we offer is not based on what they deserve, but rather it is based on the extent of their need.
b) Can we exhaust our supply?
No, the extent of the forgiveness that we offer is not based on our natural capacity or ability to bestow forgiveness, but rather it is based on the amount of forgiveness we have received from God.
As sinners, we owed a debt we could not pay; but He paid a debt He did not owe. Now, he extends to us the opportunity to follow his example and he expects us to live take every opportunity to offer forgiveness that we can.
Jesus makes both of these points quite clear in his parable about the unforgiving servant.
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Jamie was the Associate Pastor of Bethel Baptist Church in Parkersburg, West Virginia from 2005 to 2012. He has been a missionary in Zambia, Africa from 2012 to the present. He serves as one of the elders of Kitwe Church and has recently been sent out to lead a Church Plant to...
