{"id":36437,"date":"2022-09-13T12:55:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T17:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/how-do-faith-and-forgiveness-work-together\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T12:55:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T17:55:51","slug":"how-do-faith-and-forgiveness-work-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/how-do-faith-and-forgiveness-work-together\/","title":{"rendered":"How do faith and forgiveness work together?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Forgiveness is dependent upon our faith in God&rsquo;s word.&nbsp;\u200b<\/p>\n<p>A Christian embraces the truths in God&rsquo;s word. We remember, &ldquo;<strong>without faith <\/strong>it is<strong> impossible to please God<\/strong>,&rdquo; (Hebrews 11:1). Consequently, we<strong> study<\/strong> the Bible, have <strong>faith<\/strong> in the scriptures, and<strong> apply<\/strong> it.\u200b<\/p>\n<p>In order to receive forgiveness for our sins, we need to have <strong>faith that Jesus&rsquo;s sacrifice atones for our sins<\/strong>. Colossians 1:14, &ldquo; In whom (<em>Jesus<\/em>) we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins.&rdquo;\u200b<\/p>\n<p>Jesus also taught us to pray, &ldquo;If you <strong>forgive those who sin against you<\/strong>, your heavenly <strong>Father will forgive you<\/strong>. But if you refuse to forgive others, your Father will not forgive your sins,&rdquo; Matthew 6:14,15 (NLT). So, not only do we need to believe God will forgive us, but also we need to forgive others to receive God&rsquo;s forgiveness.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Forgiveness is dependent upon our faith in God&rsquo;s word.&nbsp;\u200b A Christian embraces the truths in God&rsquo;s word. We remember, &ldquo;without faith it is impossible to please God,&rdquo; (Hebrews 11:1). Consequently, we study the Bible, have faith in the scriptures, and apply it.\u200b In order to receive forgiveness for our sins, we need to have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/how-do-faith-and-forgiveness-work-together\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How do faith and forgiveness work together?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}