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We Forgive Big Idea: How can you demand others pay their debt when Jesus paid yours? Questions: 1. What ways do you tend to react when someone wrongs you? Does it change when it's someone who is close to you? 2. Do you find it more painful when the person who wrongs you is a "brother", a family member in the family of God? 3. What was the point of Jesus' story? What part of the parable stood out you you? 4. Are there people in your life you need to forgive? Text (Matthew 18:21-35): 21 Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” 22 Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times. 23 “Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants. 24 When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. 25 And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and p