Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Matthew 18:28-35
by: Victoria Shephard.
The first slave forgot what the king had just done, and now demanded the amount he was owed from the second slave. Sure, the first slave was owed about 100 days’ wages—no small amount. It is, however, small in comparison to the debt he had been forgiven—somewhere between 30 and 100 million days’ worth of peasant’s wages (and possibly more money than was in Judea at the time Jesus told the parable, IVP Commentary).
Jesus’ point isn’t about money; it’s about our sin debt to God (an amount impossible to ever repay), and the sins of others against us (paltry in comparison to our debt). We need to extend to others the same forgiveness that God has given us.