The Greatest Prayer - Week 6 "Forgive Us Our Debts"
This week I'm preaching the 6th installment of the sermon series, "The Greatest Prayer." I'm focusing on the most difficult line, "Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors." This is the line that seems to hang so many of us up as we try to truly pray this great prayer that Jesus taught his disciples. For starters, not many of us really know which word to use when we are praying it. But I will get to that in a minute. I believe that when we pray "Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors," what we are essentially affirming is this: Our ability to forgive is evidence of God's grace in our heart. So which is it? Debts, Debtors , Trespasses, Those who trespass against us, Sins , Sins against... what's the absolute right way to pray this line of the prayer? Well technically us Presbyterians with our "debts/debtor" language have the most literal translation of the word which is opheilamata, which means... debts. ...