{"id":1214,"date":"2013-02-15T07:24:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T11:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2013-02-15T07:24:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T11:24:05","slug":"un-forgiveness-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/?p=1214","title":{"rendered":"Un-forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All too often, I run across people that have experienced some kind of past hurt.\u00a0 Many years ago, someone did something hateful or disgusting to him or her and they are still harboring that pain and anger.\u00a0 They have a special place of <em>ill will,<\/em> reserved in their heart for the perpetrating individual.\u00a0 Their mind is like a video player that is stuck on <em>repeat<\/em>, where they continually remember every detail of the painstaking offense.\u00a0 Some also go as far as rehearsing in their mind different ways to get even.\u00a0 This is called un-forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Un-forgiveness is a state of mind where an individual will not, under any circumstances, stop feeling angry or resentment for a past wrong that he or she has suffered.\u00a0 The offender is not necessarily limited to an individual.\u00a0 It can also be a group or an organization that one feels has misrepresented him or her.\u00a0 The bottom line is that un-forgiveness can be aimed at a person or a thing.\u00a0 Un-forgiveness is like a cancer that slowly eats away at your insides, while having no effect on the adversary.\u00a0 Un-forgiveness is like ingesting poison expecting it to kill the wrongdoer.\u00a0 Un-forgiveness is like going on a hunger strike to punish someone else for a wrong.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Un-forgiveness is borderline blasphemy of the Holy Ghost.\u00a0 As long as one hold on to un-forgiveness, that individual is out of the will of Almighty God; Mt 6:15, \u201cBut if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.\u201d\u00a0 As soon as an individual releases un-forgiveness, he is actually repenting and is only then considered to be a truly born-again individual; Mt 6:14, \u201cFor if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.\u201d\u00a0 If you are harboring un-forgiveness, release it and open the door of a more abundantly life, but holding on to it builds a wall between you and Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All too often, I run across people that have experienced some kind of past hurt.\u00a0 Many years ago, someone did something hateful or disgusting to him or her and they are still harboring that pain and anger.\u00a0 They have a special place of ill will, reserved in their heart for the perpetrating individual.\u00a0 Their mind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hmmmm","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}