{"id":101,"date":"2007-03-26T23:24:53","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T04:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/blogpastor\/2007\/what-does-the-bible-say-about-apologies\/"},"modified":"2007-03-26T23:24:53","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T04:24:53","slug":"what-does-the-bible-say-about-apologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hanoverbaptistchurch.org\/blogpastor\/2007\/what-does-the-bible-say-about-apologies\/","title":{"rendered":"What does the Bible say about apologies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"biblequote\">\n<p class=\"noindent\">He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will find compassion. <cite class=\"biblequote\">(Proverbs 28:13&#8212;NASV)<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> Did you ever have someone ask you to forgive them but your heart told you something was wrong? How can you know without a doubt that the person is sincere? Better yet, can God accuse you of the same behavior?<\/p>\n<p> This verse gives some real horse sense about the sincerity of a confession. If there is a shadow of cover-up and a lack of willingness to spell out what is being confessed, then you are right to question the truth of the appeal. God does the same thing.<\/p>\n<p> But, the one who plainly states the offensive act in clear terms and then fully forsakes the right to practice the same offense is worthy of mercy. A Bible term defined by this level of sincere apology is the word &#8220;repent&#8221;. Simply put, repentance is a 180 degree turn around, a real change of behavior. God will accept nothing less. The repentant one will not rest until the offense is made right.<\/p>\n<p> On a scale of 1 to 3, are you a sincere apologizer? Usually, someone who cannot be honest with people cannot be honest before God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will find compassion. (Proverbs 28:13&#8212;NASV) Did you ever have someone ask you to forgive them but your heart told you something was wrong? How can you know without a doubt that the person is sincere? Better yet, can God accuse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanoverbaptistchurch.org\/blogpastor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanoverbaptistchurch.org\/blogpastor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanoverbaptistchurch.org\/blogpastor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanoverbaptistchurch.org\/blogpastor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanoverbaptistchurch.org\/blogpastor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanoverbaptistchurch.org\/blogpastor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanoverbaptistchurch.org\/blogpastor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanoverbaptistchurch.org\/blogpastor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanoverbaptistchurch.org\/blogpastor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}