{"id":51349,"date":"2015-08-29T07:21:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T07:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/archbishop_ben_kwashi_unconditional_love_for_our_enemies\/"},"modified":"2015-08-29T07:21:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-29T07:21:46","slug":"archbishop_ben_kwashi_unconditional_love_for_our_enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51349","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop Ben Kwashi: Unconditional love for our enemies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The love of God is revolutionary. It is not a careless, sentimental, \u201cI love you.\u201d\u009d The love of God transforms, it changes you completely! When Jesus died on the cross carrying our sins and our burdens,  he literally took our hatred, our bitterness, our lies and our unforgiveness into the grave. When He rose on the third day, He left those unwanted commodities in the grave. He came out triumphant bursting out with love!. God is LOVE!<\/p>\n<p>When you hate, you are walking back into the grave to take what Jesus has already deposited there. When you say you will not forgive, you are going back to the grave and taking something that is like contraband in heaven! You cannot take hatred or lies or unforgiveness to heaven. If it is useless to God and to you so why carry it around?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newhorizon.org.uk\/unconditional-love-for-our-enemies\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The love of God is revolutionary. It is not a careless, sentimental, \u201cI love you.\u201d\u009d The love of God transforms, it changes you completely! When Jesus died on the cross carrying our sins and our burdens, he literally took our<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51349\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-biblical-commentary-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}