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Matt.5:23 "If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you, 5:24 leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. 5:25 Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison. 5:26 Most certainly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there, until you have paid the last penny.{literally, kodrantes. A kodrantes was a small copper coin worth about 2 lepta (widow's mites)--not enough to buy very much of anything.}

Today there is a profound public slander where moral cowardice run's rampant. The connection of mankind by internet, news media, and entertainment, has created a soil rich in accusations and public slander. Where people give little or no thought to what they say or whom they destroy by their words. But God has a much higher standard for those claiming to love him. God is not viral publicly flying into fits of rage, and slandering those whom don't agree with him. God is not imputing evil motives to human, although, he knows the truth of human hearts.

Romans 12:17 Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

Psalms 2:1 Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

Jude 1:8 Yet in like manner these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings. 1:9 But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, "May the Lord rebuke you!" 1:10 But these speak evil of whatever things they don't know. What they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, they are destroyed in these things. 1:11 Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah's rebellion.

However, the flesh is bold, proud, and haughty, where the slightest discomfort causes it to rage with a flood of outburst from its mouth into abusive speech for those it will murder in its heart for the simplest infraction. How shallow is the spiritual depth of a person that would cause their ruin of extenal life with God to exact a splinter from their brothers eye? Here Christ speaks to those with haughty prideful opinions of themselves whom considering the rest as nothing that hold a grudge at God's altar. Those that would make a person pay their last penny to be right, what high-mindedness, what an elevated pride has a person thinking they can call down evil while claiming to be Christ-like, a Christian?

Matthew 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

Proverbs 16:19 It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, than to divide the plunder with the proud.

Proverbs 29:23 A man's pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

The altar of God brings peace too us, not by our goodness, not by our practicing breathing techniques, no! From God's Holy Spirit which gives peace to those whom have peace with their brothers, what peace? The peace of God's altar where precious life in given for our sins. Does God drag out a list of every infraction we make killing an animal fro each one, or Christ for a each sin on the list? No! He does not, he forgives us freely, without paybacks, without trying to be right as all cost. God does not hold a grudge, he does not look for a splinter in our eye, He does not impute evil too us, he does not delight in finding sin in us or our making a mistake. He does not publicly slander, and destroy lives to vent his discomfort over something we have done against him deliberately and/or by mistake.

Micah 7:19 He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

Those putting themselves in the position of God, that is, into the temple of God determining what sins to hold and what sin to forgive by infraction done against them, are the man of lawlessness. They are without God's law in Christ under the new covenant by retaining the sins of other thinking they have a right as god because of some specialness in their flesh. They will pay the last penny which they have taken by debt of sin towards their brother in spiritual darkness. What they think is their will be taken, pay out everything that they have held in their heart towards brother and sister in Christ.

Luke 8:18 Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has."

2Thess.2:3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the departure comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction, 2:4 he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.

They will know God freely forgive them, and they have no right as a human to uses a person debt of sin for a grudge and/or to look better in their flesh in being right before others. What gained by evil force will be taken from them and given to another.

Matt.18:22 Jesus said to him, "I don't tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven. 18:23 Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants. 18:24 When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.{Ten thousand talents represents an extremely large sum of money, equivalent to about 60,000,000 denarii, where one denarius was typical of one day's wages for agricultural labor.} 18:25 But because he couldn't pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. 18:26 The servant therefore fell down and kneeled before him, saying, 'Lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you all!' 18:27 The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt. 18:28 "But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him one hundred denarii,{100 denarii was about one sixtieth of a talent.} and he grabbed him, and took him by the throat, saying, 'Pay me what you owe!' 18:29 "So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, 'Have patience with me, and I will repay you!' 18:30 He would not, but went and cast him into prison, until he should pay back that which was due. 18:31 So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told to their lord all that was done. 18:32 Then his lord called him in, and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.
18:33 Shouldn't you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?' 18:34 His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all that was due to him. 18:35 So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don't each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds."

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