{"id":8696,"date":"2017-02-03T21:14:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T21:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=8696"},"modified":"2017-02-03T21:14:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T21:14:11","slug":"forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/8696\/forgiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">In Jesus Christ, I greet you!<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"> Do you find that BIBLICAL forgiveness means that you don&#8217;t bring a continuing sin up to an acquaintance, and only pray that God bless them without accountability?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> Maxine G.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hi Maxine.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Thank you for this important question.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em> God&#8217;s kind of forgiveness always follows genuine repentance.\u00a0 God has never forgiven anyone who did not first repent.\u00a0 Solomon made this point when he said, &#8220;He that covers his sins shall not prosper, but he that confesses and forsakes them shall have mercy&#8221; (Prov. 28:13).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em> To forgive sin before the sinner repents is only to encourage him in his sin.\u00a0 That kind of forgiveness is not of God, and it does more harm than good.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em> Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, In Jesus Christ, I greet you! Do you find that BIBLICAL forgiveness means that you don&#8217;t bring a continuing sin up to an acquaintance, and only pray that God bless them without accountability? Maxine G. ============ Hi Maxine. Thank you for this important question. God&#8217;s kind of forgiveness always follows genuine repentance.\u00a0 God [&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-8696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8696"}],"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=8696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}