The Lord’s Prayer

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 21, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 47.

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The Lord’s Prayer

Children’s Lesson—No. 6

The Lord’s Prayer

“And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.”

Memory Verse; “Forgive, and ye shall be forgiven.” Luke 6:37.

Every sin is a debt to God,—a debt that can never be paid; it must be forgiven.

All have sinned. Rom. 3:23.

All may be forgiven. 1 John 1:9.

God does not forgive the unforgiving. Matt. 18:23-35.

The Unforgiving Debtor

Was forgiven ten thousand talents | Refused to forgive $20,000,000 | an hundred pence | $17

Was delivered to the tormentors

The lesson to every one. Matt. 18:35.

The rabbis taught, “Forgive a first offense, forgive a second, a third, but punish a fourth.”

Peter’s question. Matt. 18:21, 22.

Whatever the offense, a forgiving spirit should be cherished, never the spirit of hate or revenge. Forgiving others is the test of our fitness to receive forgiveness from God. “Take care how you offend me, for I never forgive,” said a man to John Wesley. “Then,” said Mr. Wesley, “I hope you never sin.”

Sins forgiven:—

Scarlet made white. Isa. 1:18.
As far removed as east from west.

Ps. 103:12.

Remembered no more. Jer. 31:34.
Blotted out. Acts 3:19.