{"id":7618,"date":"2016-06-24T17:37:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T17:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=7618"},"modified":"2016-06-24T17:37:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T17:37:08","slug":"sea-of-forgetfulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/7618\/sea-of-forgetfulness\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea of Forgetfulness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hi Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I was driving to work this morning singing along to the song about &#8220;the sea of God&#8217;s forgetfulness&#8221;.\u00a0 What a good song!\u00a0 I love that song, but most of all I love to think about the sea of God&#8217;s forgetfulness.\u00a0 It&#8217;s wonderful!\u00a0 And makes me feel deeply thankful.\u00a0 But it made me wonder where in the Bible this is talked about.\u00a0 I did a search and other than Micah\u00a0<span>7:19<\/span>, there doesn&#8217;t seem to be a place where it is talked about.\u00a0 Do you know where the Bible verse is?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Jenny<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hi Jenny.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>As you have learned, the song&#8217;s wonderful phrase, &#8220;in the sea of God&#8217;s forgetfulness&#8221; isn&#8217;t directly from the Bible.\u00a0 But there are a number of verses which speak of God forever removing our sins from us, such as these:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em> Psalm 103:12:<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em> &#8220;As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Isaiah 43:25:<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em> &#8220;I, even I, am He that blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and will not remember your sins.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em> So, let&#8217;s just keep singing that song!\u00a0 I agree with you, that it is a good one.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em> Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Pastor John, I was driving to work this morning singing along to the song about &#8220;the sea of God&#8217;s forgetfulness&#8221;.\u00a0 What a good song!\u00a0 I love that song, but most of all I love to think about the sea of God&#8217;s forgetfulness.\u00a0 It&#8217;s wonderful!\u00a0 And makes me feel deeply thankful.\u00a0 But it made me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}