You can almost hear the love in Jesus’ voice when He pricks Peter’s balloon I know I’ll say not three times I’ll double it add one for luck and say seven times. So Peter thought after Jesus’ talk about The love of God for those that wander. It was both biblical tradition and the teaching of the Jewish Rabbis that when there was an offence you should forgive the person three times. You see Pete’s convinced Jesus will be impressed by such generosity of forgiveness. “how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?” I can almost see the other friends of Jesus wince as ‘motormouth’ the devoted follower who cannot resist opening his mouth and inserting his big left boot steps forward. It’s a useful passage about forgiveness and reconciliation.īut it is this that leads Peter to think to himself. He is so keen to express God’s Love for us when we wander away from Him using another parable about a lost sheep and then He gets specific and gives advice to us about how we should deal with those who sin.
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He moved on to try and help us understand how to deal with sin. Jesus had been talking to His friends and there were some kids with them and you can imagine him grabbing one and tickling him and he then He talked about the need for us to be childlike in our humility and acceptance of God’s Kingdom Rule in our lives. Now we haven’t got time for a big explore of the verses beforehand in Chapter 18 but this might be be good material for Small Groups. It’s always difficult when we get a Then at the beginning of our story cos we know we have to go back and look at the bit before. Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?”
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We need to go back to our passage and look at Peter’s question