{"id":1456,"date":"2026-09-13T14:30:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T13:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2026-09-13T14:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T13:30:23","slug":"forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2026\/09\/13\/forgiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Given by our reader Julie Taylor on the 15th Sunday after Trinity on 13\/9\/26<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/130926\" width=\"500\" height=\"30\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Download Mp3\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/130926\/130926.mp3\">HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sermon starts at 2:40<\/p>\n\n\n\n<font color=\"red\">Matthew 18 v 21\u201335\n<br><br>\nThe Parable of the Unmerciful Servant<\/font>\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>21<\/b><\/font> Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, \u201cLord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?\u201d\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>22<\/b><\/font> Jesus answered, \u201cI tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>23<\/b><\/font> \u201cTherefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>24<\/b><\/font> As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand bags of gold was brought to him. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>25<\/b><\/font> Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>26<\/b><\/font> \u201cAt this the servant fell on his knees before him. \u2018Be patient with me,\u2019 he begged, \u2018and I will pay back everything.\u2019 \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>27<\/b><\/font> The servant\u2019s master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him go.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>28<\/b><\/font> \u201cBut when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred silver coins. He grabbed him and began to choke him. \u2018Pay back what you owe me!\u2019 he demanded.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>29<\/b><\/font> \u201cHis fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, \u2018Be patient with me, and I will pay it back.\u2019\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>30<\/b><\/font> \u201cBut he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>31<\/b><\/font> When the other servants saw what had happened, they were outraged and went and told their master everything that had happened.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>32<\/b><\/font> \u201cThen the master called the servant in. \u2018You wicked servant,\u2019 he said, \u2018I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>33<\/b><\/font> Shouldn\u2019t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?\u2019 \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>34<\/b><\/font> In anger his master handed him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>35<\/b><\/font> \u201cThis is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother or sister from your heart.\u201d\n<br><br>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Given by our reader Julie Taylor on the 15th Sunday after Trinity on 13\/9\/26 Download Mp3\u00a0HERE! Sermon starts at 2:40 Matthew 18 v 21\u201335 The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant 21 Then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2026\/09\/13\/forgiveness\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1457,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions\/1457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}