{"id":4432,"date":"2010-04-03T02:00:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T02:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dirtygirlsministries.com\/blog\/?p=4432"},"modified":"2010-04-03T02:14:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T02:14:01","slug":"the-old-is-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=4432","title":{"rendered":"The Old is Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Easter is my favorite.<\/p>\n<p>I should probably do this more often, but Easter always gets me thinking about the sacrifice Jesus really made\u2014the weight of bearing the sin of the world.<\/p>\n<p>The weight of bearing my sin.<\/p>\n<p>From the beginning of time, to the end of time to come&#8230; \u00a0He bore the sins of the world on that cross.\u00a0And not just the little sins like lying about how many donuts I ate yesterday. But the big sins like the man on death row, guilty of raping and killing 12 women.<\/p>\n<p>It seems silly to even put those 2 sins in the same breath. But the same blood that covered my donut lies, is the same blood that covered his acts of murder&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>and the same blood covers your sin too.<\/h3>\n<p>But if you feel as though you&#8217;ve done too much to ever be <em>loved<\/em> by Christ\u2014let alone be <em>forgiven<\/em> for the messiness in your life\u2014you&#8217;re in good company with some of the most prominent figures in the Bible:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit and introduced sin to the world.<\/li>\n<li>David has an affair and killed his mistress&#8217; husband.<\/li>\n<li>Abraham had a child with his mistress.<\/li>\n<li>Moses killed a man.<\/li>\n<li>Mary Magdalene was an\u00a0adulteress\u00a0and prostitute.<\/li>\n<li>Peter denied Christ three times.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yet, we see in scripture that God still loved and\u00a0publicly\u00a0forgave these crazy people (and many more like them).<\/p>\n<p>And He does <em>love<\/em> you, He has <em>forgiven<\/em> you and He wants to be <em>with<\/em> you.<\/p>\n<p>And He proved it by\u00a0<strong><em>dying<\/em><\/strong> so that you could live with Him forever.<\/p>\n<p>So, as we celebrate His resurrection this coming Easter, remember friends that the old is gone\u2014and the New has come.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #872137;\">Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 2 Corinthians 5:17<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easter is my favorite. I should probably do this more often, but Easter always gets me thinking about the sacrifice Jesus really made\u2014the weight of bearing the sin of the world. The weight of bearing my sin. From the beginning of time, to the end of time to come&#8230; \u00a0He bore the sins of the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=4432\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Old is Gone<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forgiveness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4432"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4457,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432\/revisions\/4457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}