CONDITION FOR FORGIVENESS

IF YOU FORGIVE PEOPLE’S SINS THEY ARE FORGIVEN JOHN 20:19-23

It was late that Sunday evening, and the disciples were gathered together behind locked doors, because they were afraid of the Jewish authorities.  Then Jesus came and stood among them. “Peace be with you,” he said. After saying this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples were filled with joy at seeing the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father sent me, so I send you.” 

Then he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive people’s sins they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”
 

Our Lord Jesus Christ breathed on the disciples an empowerment to forgive Sin and retain Sin. If we can recall after healing the man at the pool  in John Chapter 5:1-18  “Do you want to get” the man reply was no one to put him in the pool, But Jesus being the WORD spoke the WORD asking him to get up, pick his bed and walk. There was argument because he was healed on a Sabbath. Later Jesus found him in the Temple and said:  “Listen, you are well now, so stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.”14 . Sin is very destructive; its consequence is very devastating It destroys body and soul.  Perhaps this was the reason Christ gave his disciples the authority to forgive Sin.   Some people accuses Catholics of going to confession, some will ask if it is in the BIBLE? This is Christ command and authority because he gave them the power to forgive by breathing on them and empowering them through the Holy Spirit to forgive sins.  It is Spiritual Cleansing. Our body need to be clean so is our Soul made of Spirit, so it is through the Spirit, it can be washed and cleansed. PLEASE MEDITATE ON THIS.

I AM RETURNING TO MY FATHER

JESUS APPEARS TO MARY MAGDALENE John 20:1-18 

 Mary stood crying outside the tomb while she was still crying, she bent over and looked in the tomb and saw two angels there dressed in white sitting where the body of Jesus had been, one at the head and the other at the feet. ‘Woman, why are you crying/” they asked her.

She answered, “They have taken my Lord away, and I do not know where they have put him.”  Then she turned round and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. “Woman, why are you crying?” Jesus asked her. “Who is it that you are looking for?”

She thought he was the gardener, so she said to him, “If you took him away sir, tell me where you have put him, and I will go and get him.” Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned towards him and said in Hebrew, “Rabboni!”  (This means “Teacher”).

“Do not hold on to me,” Jesus said to her, “because I have not yet gone back up to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them that I am returning to him who is my Father and their Father, my God and their God.”

So Mary Magdalene went and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord and related to them what the Lord told her.

My God I Love You