Matthew 18 (22nd October) - Ezra

Matt 18 is actually very easy to understand if you just see it stright forwardly.

In the first part from verse 1 to 14, Jesus is bringing across to everyone that, even the little ones meant a lot to the Father.

It doesn't mean that you can only know Him when you are an adult, but even the little ones can too. They are God's presious ones.
As it is written, God is a Father, if out of 100 sheeps, 1 is missing, He will search everywhere for this 1 sheep till He finds it.

Verse 15-20 talks about how 2 or more coming together to pray for a person. Though the first part talks about telling a brother his faults, and it goes on to say that, if he refuses to listen to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or tax collector.

I believe what we can learn from that is, not to see it in a literial way, but to see it deeper. There isn't right or wrong way to look at it, bible scripture speaks to everyone in many different ways. But for me, this is what I gather- no matter what the brother or sister is or their rebeliousness is, we must pray for them. If they chooses to sin and ask us to join them, that is where we draw back, but still continue to keep them in prayer.

Verse 21-35, as Jesus speaks, He knows that His time will come where He will be cruxified, and cancel our sins/depts. In the same way, what this passage speaks to me is that, as Jesus die on the cross for our sins, He has forgiven us, we as His children must learn to forgive our brothers / sisters if they have wrong us.