Matthew 27:5<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThen he threw down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed, and went and hanged himself.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The blood of atonement is sufficient to cleanse us from all our sins, to free us from the judgment of God, and to rid us of continual sorrow over past sins. God\u2019s will is that after we bring our sinful actions before His Throne of mercy; we should allow the full work of redemption to takeover. While in this human tent, we will surely commit some kind of sin; but when that happens, let\u2019s release ourselves to God who is able to work His work of grace over us. Of course, we should never intend to or plan to sin, but if it does happen, grace is more than able to deal with it. Grace does not only heal; grace remakes and remolds tishe broken. Where the vices of sin have torn our hearts, God\u2019s work of renewal is more than able to make all things new again. Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Forgive yourself. God is not holding out His rod of anger over you. You failed, and you have repented; therefore, move on. Too many people keep clutching to the past; to things that God has forgotten ever happened. God does not hold a record of our wrongs after we have repented. Satan wants to keep us bound in the prison of everlasting guilt, leading eventually to our destruction. Judas did not believe that Jesus could forgive him, and so he could not forgive himself. Judas fell into Satan\u2019s perfect trap, and you must never allow yourself to enter this same trap. Forgive yourself. Did you sin? Repent and let it go. It\u2019s over. Jesus forgave you the moment you asked for forgiveness. Again, I say, it\u2019s over. Let it go, please.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI rebuke the voices of condemnation over me, in the name of Jesus. I have been forgiven, and I am free from guilt. Jesus died for my total deliverance from sin and guilt, and for this reason, I refuse to live under the bondage of either. In Jesus\u2019 name, I pray. Amen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Matthew 27:5 \u201cThen he threw down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed, and went and hanged himself.\u201d The blood of atonement is sufficient to cleanse us from all our sins, to free us from the judgment of God, and to rid us of continual sorrow over past sins. God\u2019s will is that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-reflections-from-matthew"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Reflections-from-Matthew.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4585,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583\/revisions\/4585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}