Forgive

“For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.” – Matthew 6:14-15

For a Christian, the failure to forgive is unthinkable.  I don’t care what the issue is, I don’t care what the offense is, a failure to forgive is a blatant, open act of disobedience.  We have been told as explicitly as we could possibly be told that if anybody offends us we are to forgive them.  How many times?  Seventy times seven or, that is, an endless number of times.  And that the reason we are to forgive is because our Father in heaven has forgiven us and will continue to forgive us as we are faithful to forgive others. – John MacArthur