dare God ask us to forgive seventy times seven (18:21–22) when we well know that the person who wronged us will do it again? “After all,” we murmur, “people don’t change.” Neither of our Simons was a change-skeptic. They both believed in change. However, they raged against each other concerning the source of change. Simon Peter was living proof that deep change comes as a gift from above (James 1:17–18). But Simon the Sorcerer, reaching back into his old life, thought he could buy the power to change
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