Family Discipleship April Week 1
April 6th- 12th
Debts and Debtors
The Big Picture: What should you do if someone steals something from you or tells a lie that get you in trouble? One day Jesus taught his disciples what to do if someone sins agains them. If a person admits his fault and asks for forgiveness, Christians should forgive. When Peter heard this teaching, he had a follow up question: "Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?"(Matt 18:21). Jesus replied, "Not seven times, seventy-seven times" (See Matt 18:22). In other words, "we should be counting how many times someone does something wrong towards us. We should forgive them every single time!" Today's story is a parable that Jesus told the disciples so they could understand better.
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This weeks big truth is:
We should forgive others just as God forgave us.
We should forgive others just as God forgave us.
This weeks memory verse is:
Be kind one to another, tender hearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
(EPHESIANS 4:32)
Be kind one to another, tender hearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
(EPHESIANS 4:32)
Reading 1: MATTHEW 18:15-20
IF SOMEONE SINS AGAINST YOU
If someone sins against you, should you look the other way or be really mad and mean? If the person who sins against you won't confess the sin and ask you for forgiveness, what should you do next?
IF SOMEONE SINS AGAINST YOU
If someone sins against you, should you look the other way or be really mad and mean? If the person who sins against you won't confess the sin and ask you for forgiveness, what should you do next?
Reading 2: MATTHEW 18:21-22
SEVENTY-SEVEN TIMES
Does Peter want a limit to how many times he should forgive someone? What does Jesus think about how many times we should forgive? Has anyone ever done something wrong against you the same way a few times? If so, did you find it difficult to forgive them? How many times will God forgive us of the same sin?
SEVENTY-SEVEN TIMES
Does Peter want a limit to how many times he should forgive someone? What does Jesus think about how many times we should forgive? Has anyone ever done something wrong against you the same way a few times? If so, did you find it difficult to forgive them? How many times will God forgive us of the same sin?
Reading 3: MATTHEW 18:23-27
JESUS TELLS ANOTHER PARABLE
A "debt" is when you owe somebody money. A "talent" was an amount of money. Kind of like a dollar. Ten thousand talents, would have been a lot of money today. Could the servant have ever been able to pay the king back for what he owed? What did the servant do? What did the king do? What can we learn from this parable?
JESUS TELLS ANOTHER PARABLE
A "debt" is when you owe somebody money. A "talent" was an amount of money. Kind of like a dollar. Ten thousand talents, would have been a lot of money today. Could the servant have ever been able to pay the king back for what he owed? What did the servant do? What did the king do? What can we learn from this parable?
Reading 4: MATTHEW 18:28-30
THE UNMERCIFUL SERVANT
How much money did the second servant owe? What should he have done when the second servant asked him to give him time to pay it back? What did he do instead? Was that a a good decision?
THE UNMERCIFUL SERVANT
How much money did the second servant owe? What should he have done when the second servant asked him to give him time to pay it back? What did he do instead? Was that a a good decision?
Reading 5: MATTHEW 18:31-35
FORGIVE FROM THE HEART
What did the king say and do to punish the first servant? What lesson is going trying to teach the disciples and us with this story?
FORGIVE FROM THE HEART
What did the king say and do to punish the first servant? What lesson is going trying to teach the disciples and us with this story?
GOSPEL CONNECTION
Our trespasses or sins are like debts we owe God. Our debt is as massive as the first servant in the parable. We owe God ten billion dollars. So what are we to do? We can't do anything can we? There is nothing that we can do to earn salvation. Thankfully God has done something with our debt. He sent Jesus to pay that debt for us. Jesus gave his "life as a ransom" (Matt 20:28), a full payment. We, through faith, can accept that good news and have all our sins forgiven! And because God (like the king in the parable) has forgiven others (like the second servant's much-smaller debt) when they sin against us. The forgiven must be forgiving.
Our trespasses or sins are like debts we owe God. Our debt is as massive as the first servant in the parable. We owe God ten billion dollars. So what are we to do? We can't do anything can we? There is nothing that we can do to earn salvation. Thankfully God has done something with our debt. He sent Jesus to pay that debt for us. Jesus gave his "life as a ransom" (Matt 20:28), a full payment. We, through faith, can accept that good news and have all our sins forgiven! And because God (like the king in the parable) has forgiven others (like the second servant's much-smaller debt) when they sin against us. The forgiven must be forgiving.
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