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To pardon can mean to release someone from a duty or requirement. To set or declare someone free from blame, guilt, punishment or responsibility.
To forgive means to stop feeling angry, resentful and displeasure toward someone for their crime or offense against you. It is the waiving of your right to seek revenge or restitution for the hurt and/or injury someone caused you.
Pardoning tends to have to do with the release from punishment. For example an official judicial authority may pardon a criminal’s punishment and commute their sentence. Although he or she may be guilty of the crime and/or offence, they are released and freed from serving any more prison time for their offence and/or crime.
Forgiveness tends to have to do with the offended party’s emotions and feelings toward the one who is guilty of the offense against them. For example the offended person may waive their right to take revenge or exact retribution or punishment or payment from the one who offended and/or injured them. They release themselves from the emotional and spiritual desire to hurt the one who hurt them. They release themselves from the righteous and justifiable law of revenge. Thus setting themselves free from the heavy burden and dark emotional baggage of unforgiveness.
Forgiving and Pardoning sometimes coexist and are inclusive of one another. For instance, when we forgive a debt, we often pardon the repayment of it.
But more often than not, Forgiving and Pardoning are exclusive of each other. For example, a murder victim’s family may forgive the murderer of killing their loved one but the murderer is not pardoned from the judicial and moral consequences of their murderous act. They will still have to serve time and may even be required to surrender their life as punishment for their crime. Nevertheless, they are forgiven.
In like manner, sometimes we are forgiven for our trespasses against another and against God but we still have to pay and/or suffer the consequences for our sinful acts.
A good example of when Pardoning and Forgiveness do not co-exist maybe be found in the sin of fornication where a child is conceived out-of-wedlock. The sexual sin of fornication may be repented of and forgiven but the consequences are inevitable and life-changing and lifelong. This particular sin may even have generational and intangible, psychological, sociological, moral and spiritual consequences that will impact innocent generations yet unborn.
Another good example of where Forgiving and Pardoning are exclusive of each other would be mankind’s fall from grace. Sin entered the world through one man – Adam, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all have sinned through Adam. Therefore, all human beings suffer the wages of sin – physical death. For it is appointed to man once to die and after that to face judgment. However, all mankind can be forgiven from their sins through believing the Gospel, Repentance, Water Baptism in the name of Christ and the gift of the HOLY GHOST. Nevertheless, all human beings will still have to die Physically and Spiritually at least once as a consequence of Adam’s original sin.
Are You Hearing What The Spirit Is Saying Unto The ONE TRUE EKKLESIA of CHRIST?
All sins do not reap the same consequences and all offenses do not receive the same penalty. It is a case by case assessment and only God knows enough about each situation and mitigating circumstances to judge righteously and dispense justice fairly. That is why YHVH reserved vengeance – The dispensing of justice and punishment – for himself. (Deuteronomy 32:35, Romans 12:19)
We are commanded to forgive each other and not to repay evil for evil. We really don’t have to get anybody back for anything that they did to us. Regardless of how much we forgive them, they will reap whatsoever they sow. We can’t stop the spiritual law of sowing and reaping. True pardoning of sins comes only from GOD through Christ.
THEREFORE, FORGIVE EVERYONE JUST AS GOD IN CHRIST FORGIVES YOU. HOWEVER, THE PREROGATIVE TO PARDON MAYBE TOTALLY UP TO GOD.
REPENT! HUMBLE YOURSELF AND BECOME CONTRITE OVER YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS. ASK GOD TO PARDON YOUR SINS SO THAT YOU WILL BE TOTALLY FREE FROM THE WAGES, CONSEQUENCES AND CURSE OF SIN.
REPENT!!!
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Psalm 119:89
Your word, LORD, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens.Psalm 119:160
Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.Isaiah 40:8
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand forever.
God’s Word is Settled for all Eternity!
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“Just because a homosexual who claims to be a Christian is a gifted ordained preacher, noted public speaker, acclaimed talented singer, an exceptional convincing performer or a well degreed educator, doesn’t make them a Christian in the sight of God.
They Must Be Born Again! They Must Be Holy! They Must Be Sexually Moral, Straight and Righteous even as God has Commanded. (1 Corinthians 6:9-10)
There is no such thing as a gay Christian. That animal just does not exist.
Friendship with the world includes friendship with and acceptance of what the world approves of and endorses and that includes homosexuality. And the Bible teaches that the world loves its own. (John 15:19 & 1 John 4:5)
However the Word of God says that any friendship with the world make one any enemy of God. (James 4:4)
I don’t want to burst your bubble, but if you have a friend or family member who is homosexual and you endorse their sin against God by accepting their non-repentant and vile rebellion against God and nature through indifference and/or your “immoral” support, you are just as immoral and condemned as they are and have declared yourself to be an enemy of God.
It is time to choose whose side that you are really on. It is time to choose who you are willing to stand up for and who you are prepared to die for. (Psalm 139:21-23)
God isn’t playing. He is serious about all sin but especially sexual sin and He will not tolerate it in His Kingdom nor in the Body of Christ and neither should those who profess Christ.
I implore every soul who reads this article to please repent of anything and every action you may have done, said, written of endorsed that could be understood as supporting a homosexual man or woman or the gay agenda. You are endangering your soul.
Some would argue that God says for us to love the sinner and not the sin. This is a misstatement and trick from Satan meant to dilute the righteousness and holiness of God’s Word and our divine obligation to expose sin and admonish the sinner to repent. God requires us to love by telling the truth and not by compromising it as some have become accustomed to doing through their friendships and good-humored partnerships with gays and lesbians and other vile and filthy spirits who war against God.
We will all have to give an account to God at the Judgment for ourselves and for where we placed our loyalties. We will all have to answer to God for why we rejected Christ and His blood sacrifice by embracing and befriending what He plainly hates and rejects. (Revelation 21:8)
The end-times are here and there is a perversion of Christianity that the world has never seen before and it is growing worse everyday. It will not end until the return of Christ with His Holy Saint. (2 Timothy 3:13)
Many professed Christians who do not adhere steadfastly to the teachings of Christ and His Apostles and the Eternal Commands of Father God and repent, will die a sudden and unexpected death and in hell they will lift up their eyes. They will be destroyed in such a way that it will be plain to see that their death was because of their sexual and moral rebellion against Father YHVH and Against the Blood Of Christ.
I wonder will they think at that time that their friendships with gays and lesbians were worth an eternity in damnation?
God Is Not Playing With Sin and We Shouldn’t Either.
REPENT!!!
Scripture Text: Romans 1:20-32 (ESV)
20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature,have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. 21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. 29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
Are we more righteous than God? Who are we to correct God and embrace what He has rejected?
REPENT!!!
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Praise The LORD my friends and enemies alike.
I bring you greetings in the name of the Holy Messiah.
Please allow me to share a little about myself and make myself perfectly clear and repeat what I have been saying for over 30 years.
I did not “go into the ministry” as some men and women do. I did not seek the office I now serve in nor did I receive it from any man or institution. Any knowledge or insight that anyone may perceive as coming from me is not from me but from Him who sent me.
Being a Preacher-Teacher is not a job (vocation/career or big business) for which I am seeking employment, prestige, honor or glory. I am not called into the Kingdom of God ministry to compete like a business for finances, membership, property acquisitions, worldly accolades and material investments and prosperity. I am called out from the world’s religious systems and sent by GOD to teach and preach His divine Truth of salvation and challenge every creature to repent. It is a “LIFE” to which I was especially and personally called and sent by the FATHER through Christ.
Initially, man’s system of “Church and Religion” tried to indoctrinate me and pervert the message and assignment that the LORD sent and is still sending me on. But thanks to God’s intervention, I was removed from their influence and freed to operate in the office to which I was appointed and gifted by God through Christ. I do not knowingly subscribe to any institutional faith or religion. My calling and election is strongly anchored in Christ and in God as all ministers of the Gospel of the Kingdom of God should be.
It still disturbs me though that I almost missed salvation while running after Church affiliation. So many people do not realize that the system of “churches” as we have come to know them today doesn’t exist in the kingdom of God or in the message of Christ. Perhaps we shall address that subject in a future post.
I have taught other preachers in the past, through the revelation of Christ, that if we are truly sent by God, we should be able to find our “True Spiritual Selves” in the pages of the Holy Scripture, i.e., a portrait of the person we have become through Christ. And although I have found several passages of Holy Scripture that may reflect who I am and what I stand for in Christ, none seems to be more personal and applicable regarding my calling than that of Paul’s (Saul’s) proclamation in Galatians 1:1-12.
Now as you read the following scripture passage, please don’t get it twisted. I am not professing to be an Apostle of Christ by any stretch of the imagination. That Christ appointed distinction belongs only to the original Apostles of the Lamb. I am only stressing the point of the divine origin and purity of my calling and of the message of my ministry.
Galatians 1:1-12 (CJB)
1 From: Sha’ul, an emissary — I received my commission not from human beings or through human mediation but through Yeshua the Messiah and God the Father, who raised him from the dead — also from all the brothers with me
2 To: The Messianic communities in Galatia:
3 Grace and shalom to you from God our Father and from the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, 4 who gave himself for our sins, so that he might deliver us from the present evil world-system, in obedience to the will of God, our Father. 5 To him be the glory forever and ever! Amen.
6 I am astounded that you are so quick to remove yourselves from me, the one who called you by the Messiah’s grace, and turn to some other supposedly “Good News,” 7 which is not good news at all! What is really happening is that certain people are pestering you and trying to pervert the genuine Good News of the Messiah. 8 But even if we — or, for that matter, an angel from heaven! — were to announce to you some so-called “Good News” contrary to the Good News we did announce to you, let him be under a curse forever! 9 We said it before, and I say it again: if anyone announces “Good News” contrary to what you received, let him be under a curse forever!
10 Now does that sound as if I were trying to win human approval? No! I want God’s approval! Or that I’m trying to cater to people? If I were still doing that, I would not be a servant of the Messiah.
11 Furthermore, let me make clear to you, brothers, that the Good News as I proclaim it is not a human product; 12 because neither did I receive it from someone else nor was I taught it — it came through a direct revelation from Yeshua the Messiah.
I am not politically correct nor do I profess to be of eloquent and persuasive speech. I am simply and most humbly a servant of Father God.
May God The Father Be Glorified And Praised In EVERYTHING That I Do And Say Through Christ Our LORD!
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