{"id":5552,"date":"2019-09-30T04:10:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/how-much-can-god-forgive\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:10:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:10:54","slug":"how-much-can-god-forgive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/how-much-can-god-forgive\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Can God Forgive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many Christians are defeated because they cannot get rid of guilt or feel forgiven.  C.S. Lewis says Satan&#8217;s strategy is to get Christians preoccupied with their failures; from then on, the battle is won.<\/p>\n<p>  1. Christ&#8217;s death on the cross was a sacrifice for all sins, past, present<br \/>\n       and future.<br \/>\n         (Even Hitler could be forgiven.  Billy Graham was asked this.)<br \/>\n  2. The punishment for our sins has been laid on Christ.  We cannot be<br \/>\n       punished for them.<br \/>\n  3. God does not become weary in hearing our confessions of sin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Christians are defeated because they cannot get rid of guilt or feel forgiven. C.S. Lewis says Satan&#8217;s strategy is to get Christians preoccupied with their failures; from then on, the battle is won. 1. Christ&#8217;s death on the cross was a sacrifice for all sins, past, present and future. (Even Hitler could be forgiven. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1330,2516,92,1364,527,207,2897,2898,434],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}