Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch
Acts 8:26-40
Key Verse: 8:35
Date: Sep. 4, 2018
Question
For what do we pray in the fifth request?
Answer
In the fifth request (Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors), encouraged by God's grace, which makes it possible for us sincerely to forgive others, we pray that for Christ's sake God would freely pardon all our sins.
Reference Passages
1
Matthew 18:21-35
Ephesians 4:32
Colossians 3:13
13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
2
Psalm 51:1-2
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
1 Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your steadfast love;
according to your abundant mercy
blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
and cleanse me from my sin!
Psalm 51:7
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Psalm 51:9
Daniel 9:17-19
1 John 1:7