It doesn’t matter how you hear it, the Gospel is Good News. God

has promised that our sins would be forgiven if only we ask. It doesn’t matter

how much we owe God, the truth is that we could never possibly pay off what we

owe no matter how we try, and still God is willing to forgive us. That’s Good

News, right? It’s always Good News. It’s the way we listen that effects the way

we hear the Good News. In the Gospel of Matthew (18.23-35) we find a man who

owed more than he could ever pay. His debt was forgiven, but he was unwilling

to forgive even the smallest debt a fellow servant owed to him. In return for

his selfishness the master threw him in prison and he spent all eternity being

tortured. But God still is willing to forgive us, and that will always be Good

News.