Do you know the Lord’s Prayer? It starts, “Our Father in heaven” (Matt. 6:9). After we pray “Give us this day our daily bread,” the very next thing we ask God to do for us is to “forgive us our debts” (or trespasses or sins). Just like we need daily bread to live, we need daily forgiveness too. Our trespasses or sins are like debts we owe God. Our debt is as massive as the first servant’s debt in the parable. We owe God ten billion dollars. So what are we to do? We can’t do anything to earn our salvation. But thankfully God has done something about our debt problem. He sent Jesus to pay it all. Jesus gave his “life as a ransom” (20:28), a full payment. We, through faith, can accept that good news. And forgiven people forgive others. That’s how it works. In fact, after Jesus taught the Lord’s Prayer, he taught that Christians are to “forgive others their trespasses” (6:14). Jesus even implied that if we haven’t forgiven, we probably haven’t truly been forgiven (see 6:12, 14). The forgiven must be forgiving! We are to “be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one other, as God in Christ forgave” us (Eph. 4:32).