{"id":6152,"date":"2016-08-16T03:49:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/redeeming-forgiveness\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:49:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:49:06","slug":"redeeming-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/redeeming-forgiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"REDEEMING\n  FORGIVENESS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Forgiveness; Opportunity; Salvation<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>References:<\/b> 1 Corinthians 6:2; Hebrews 3:7\u20138<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Gift cards often come with expiration dates. Sometimes I will stuff one in my wallet and forget about it. A gift card can be worth $100 one day, and then the next day you might as well throw it in the garbage because it has expired. You have missed the opportunity to spend it!<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>God\u2019s gift of forgiveness is like a gift card that is more valuable than anything we can imagine. He paid for it with his Son\u2019s life. God is holding that priceless gift card out to us, waiting for us to take it. If we don\u2019t accept it and use it, however, it\u2019s of no value to us.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>A gift card is only plastic unless it is redeemed. Don\u2019t wait to claim God\u2019s gift before it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Mike Silva, <i>Would You Like Fries With That?<\/i> (Word, 2005)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Forgiveness; Opportunity; Salvation References: 1 Corinthians 6:2; Hebrews 3:7\u20138 Gift cards often come with expiration dates. Sometimes I will stuff one in my wallet and forget about it. A gift card can be worth $100 one day, and then the next day you might as well throw it in the garbage because it has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/redeeming-forgiveness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;REDEEMING<br \/>\n  FORGIVENESS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6152","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=6152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}