Soma Spokane Sermons

A parable is a short story or metaphor, drawn from familiar cultural context and experience, and prompted by Jesus’ need to explain himself and his ministry. Each week this summer we'll explore one of Jesus' parables, asking what it is meant to teach us about Jesus and the Kingdom of God. In this week's parable, Jesus is conversing with Peter about how much a follower should forgive another. In doing so, he tells a parable, a ridiculous parable at that of how much a certain fellow is forgiven by a good master and yet still is mean and unforgiving to a fellow servant. The master then tortures and throws this slave out because the kingdom of heaven requires its participants to be forgiving of others. The parable seems to point at there needing to be more than just an awareness of how much we have been forgiven in order for us to live out the Kingdom of Heaven.