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Day by Day Devotional - Year 3 of 5
Devotional: August 7th

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Matthew 18:15-35

The Lord explains how quarrels between brethren should be settled (vv. 15-17). We can connect that with His teaching concerning forgiveness (v. 22; cf. Ephesians 4:32; Colossians 3:13). But it is also an opportunity for Him to revert to the subject of the Assembly, giving us a verse, or rather a promise, of the greatest importance: "For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them" (v. 20). From this presence flows all that meets the need of the weakest company of believers gathered in the name of the Lord Jesus. How could there fail to be blessing when He who is the source of it is there in the midst of those who are waiting upon Him? The promise here is particularly in connection with the authority conferred on the assembly (binding and loosing) and with the prayer of two or three for anything, with the assurance that it will be done for them. Alas! how many Christians forget the importance of the prayer meeting.

The parable of the servant owing ten thousand talents (an enormous sum) reminds us of the incalculable debt which God has forgiven us in Christ (Ezra 9:6). What, in comparison, are the petty wrongs we may have to suffer? Divine pardon, of which we have been the objects, makes us responsible to show mercy in our turn.

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