{"id":7732,"date":"2025-07-24T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=7732"},"modified":"2015-07-03T00:09:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T21:09:11","slug":"what-else-forgiveness-brings-life-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/what-else-forgiveness-brings-life-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"What else forgiveness brings into our life II"},"content":{"rendered":"Greetings to you, dear friends! Grace and peace to you from Father God and our Lord Jesus Christ! We are still talking about the impact of God\u2019s forgiveness on our lives. We have established that:\r\n\r\n \r\n
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  1. God\u2019s forgiveness annuls our debts.<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n \r\n
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    1. Forgiveness gives us strength to walk our daily walk.<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n \r\n
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      1. Forgiveness<\/strong>gives us an access to God\u2019s inheritance with the saints.<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n \r\n
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        1. Forgiveness renews in us the joy of salvation.<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n \r\n
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          1. Forgiveness softens our hearts towards other people.<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n \r\n\r\nToday we will discuss one more aspect of God\u2019s forgiveness in a person\u2019s life.\r\n\r\n \r\n
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            1. God\u2019s forgiveness delivers us from the feelings of guilt.<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n \r\n
              \u00abI acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, \u201eI will confess my transgression to the LORD,\u201d and You forgave the iniquity of my sin\u00bb\u00a0(Psalm, 32:5).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n
              \u00abBeloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God\u00bb\u00a0(1 John, 3:21).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nSin makes us feel guilty, and guilt robs a person of his confidence and makes his faith ineffective. When the heart is filled with condemnation, no person can be sure to receive any answer from God. When God feels guilty, then he accepts all negative things in life as something unavoidable. He starts thinking that he deserves these bad things, so he is not capable to fight against them or to accept the good.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nWe see this happening in the life of Joseph\u2019s brothers:\r\n\r\n \r\n
              \u00abThen they said to one another, \u201cWe are truly guilty concerning our brother, for we saw the anguish of his soul when he pleaded with us, and we would not hear; therefore this distress has come upon us.\u201d And Reuben answered them, saying, \u201cDid I not speak to you, saying, \u2018Do not sin against the boy\u2019; and you would not listen? Therefore behold, his blood is now required of us.\u201d But they did not know that Joseph understood them, for he spoke to them through an interpreter\u00bb\u00a0(Genesis, 42:21-23).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nGuilt not only robs a person of the confidence, but it also strengthens the feelings of unworthiness. Forgiveness takes it all away.\r\n\r\n \r\n
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              1. Forgiveness delivers a person from his past.<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n \r\n\r\nOur past influences us in a great way. It is possible we learn something from the things that happened in our past, but we cannot run away from it. We can try to forget our past, but we can\u2019t change it. Our history is an inseparable part of our lives. We can only be delivered from the negative influence of our past through God\u2019s forgiveness.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nLet\u2019s look at the lives of Jacob\u2019s sons who sold their brother Joseph into slavery. This story haunted these men their whole life. Even when Joseph told them that he had forgiven them, they still experienced fear and couldn\u2019t be free from their past. These feelings peeked when their father died. Brothers were sure that now Joseph would repay them for all of the things they had done to them and would have his revenge. Only repeated reassurances from Joseph brought them true freedom. This miracle is possible only through forgiveness:\r\n\r\n \r\n
                \u00a0\u00ab\u00a0When Joseph\u2019s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, \u201ePerhaps Joseph will hate us, and may actually repay us for all the evil which we did to him.\u201d So they sent messengers to Joseph, saying, \u201eBefore your father died he commanded, saying, \u2018Thus you shall say to Joseph: \u201eI beg you, please forgive the trespass of your brothers and their sin; for they did evil to you.\u201d\u2019 Now, please, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of your father.\u201d And Joseph wept when they spoke to him. Then his brothers also went and fell down before his face, and they said, \u201eBehold, we are your servants.\u201d Joseph said to them, \u201eDo not be afraid, for am I in the place of God?\u00a0 But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive. Now therefore, do not be afraid; I will provide for you and your little ones.\u201d And he comforted them and spoke kindly to them\u00bb\u00a0(Genesis, 50:15-21).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nGreat freedom came into the hearts of these people after they heard from Joseph: \u201cYOU ARE FORGIVEN!\u201d\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nSome events in our lives point out to the mistakes and sins of the past, but through forgiveness we can gain freedom from all the consequences and influence of the past happenings. We must understand and practice the power and benefits of forgiveness. It is a great privilege to be forgiven! Blessed is the man whose sins and debts have been forgiven!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nTalk to you tomorrow through \u201eDaily Word for Spiritual Edification\u201d!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nGod bless you and your loved ones!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nPastor Rufus Ajiboye","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"God\u2019s forgiveness delivers us from the feelings of guilt.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\u00abI acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, \u201eI will confess my transgression to the LORD,\u201d and You forgave the iniquity of my sin\u00bb (Psalm, 32:5).","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-word"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":12,"label":"Daily Word"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/pexels-photo-247851-1024x582.jpeg",1024,582,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Pastor Rufus Ajiboye","author_link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/author\/rufus-ajiboye\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":12,"name":"Daily Word","slug":"daily-word","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","parent":0,"count":650,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":12,"category_count":650,"category_description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","cat_name":"Daily Word","category_nicename":"daily-word","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40068,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7732\/revisions\/40068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}