Good morning. So we just talked about the 70×7 forgiving of others. Jesus then tells a parable comparing the kingdom of heaven to a certain king who wished to settle accounts with his slaves. One owed him 10,000 talents. That was a tremendous amount of money. I don't know if it was the same size as the talent in the book of Kings when Naaman was cleansed of his leprosy. Elisha’s servant followed him and asked for a talent of silver. He gave him two. It took two men to carry them. One Bible says that they weighed 75 pounds each. Back to the parable: The slave could not repay his debt. The king was going to sell him and his entire family to help repay the debt. The slave begged for mercy, and the king felt compassion. Later the slave found some other slave who owed him much less money. When that slave could not repay him, he had him thrown in prison. The king was told about it and got angry. I forgave you this huge debt, and you would not forgive your fellow slave’s small debt. He had him turned over to the torturers until he could repay all that was owed. I'm not sure how he could repay the king if he was being tortured. Jesus said “so shall My Heavenly Father also do to you, if each of you does not forgive his brother from your heart.” If God forgave us an infinite amount, surely we could forgive our brothers and sisters some trivial (by comparison) amount. Father thank You that You have forgiven the reader for all of the wrong things that he/she has done. He/she readily forgives those who have wronged him/her.

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