{"id":2700,"date":"2013-05-10T21:48:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T04:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2700"},"modified":"2013-05-10T21:48:19","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T04:48:19","slug":"sin-has-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2013\/sin-has-consequences\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sin Has Consequences&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I heard that &#8220;sin has consequences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So do grace and love.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"verse\">&#8220;Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound&#8221;<\/span> (Romans 5:20).<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"verse\">&#8220;Love covereth all sins&#8221;<\/span> (Proverbs 10:12).<\/p>\n<p>Sin, repented of and properly dealt with, needs no further review and regurgitation.<\/p>\n<p>When we insist on consequences over grace and love, we sow for a bitter harvest.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t wish that harvest on anyone. Especially on myself.<\/p>\n<p>So which will matter most to me in my relationships with those who fail?<\/p>\n<p>Let me allow grace and love to triumph in my heart!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"verse\">&#8220;Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy&#8221;<\/span> (Matthew 5:7).<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But when we insist on consequences over grace and love, we sow for a bitter harvest.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,12,20],"tags":[775,800],"class_list":["post-2700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-lessons-for-living","category-youve-been-warned","tag-forgiveness","tag-relationships"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-Hy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}