Emphasis Preaching Journal
Forgive others seventy times seven...
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Forgive others seventy times seven: it seems to be an impossibly high standard. There was one family who managed to live up to Jesus' words, though: a Korean family. Their son had journeyed to America as an exchange student, to the University of Pennsylvania. One day, as he stepped out of his dormitory to mail a letter, he was brutally assaulted by a street gang. The leather-clad toughs beat him with a blackjack and a lead pipe, and then with their own fists and feet. When they were done, their victim lay bleeding and dying in the gutter.