Why Forgiven Sins Still Have Consequences
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
We can be 100% confident that when we confess our sins, we receive complete and total forgiveness from God. However, God loves us so much, that he’s allowed the choices we make in life to matter. That means that even when we’ve experienced forgiveness for our actions from God, we may still face the natural consequences for those actions here on earth.
Today, Fr. Mike explains why we still experience some consequences for sins that have been forgiven in confession.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, once again, it's good to be back. |
| 0:02.6 | It's good to be back. |
| 0:04.3 | He's back, he's back, hold the moths back. |
| 0:07.2 | How many times Father Mike Smith's, and this is essential, |
| 0:17.2 | presents, so as we're going through the Bible any year, |
| 0:19.5 | you might be also going through the Bible any year. |
| 0:21.1 | One of the things that people have noticed |
| 0:23.3 | is that there are many times when God declares |
| 0:25.6 | that he's forgiven someone, and yet there are still |
| 0:28.5 | consequences to their actions. |
| 0:31.1 | So one incredibly famous example is that of King David, |
| 0:34.5 | where King David has this horrible situation with Bathsheba, |
| 0:39.5 | who is the wife of another man. |
| 0:40.8 | Bathsheba becomes pregnant. |
| 0:42.8 | David orchestrates the murder essentially of her husband, |
| 0:46.8 | and then takes Bathsheba into his home, |
| 0:49.9 | essentially marries her, and then she gives birth |
| 0:51.4 | to a child, a son. |
| 0:53.2 | And then the prophet Nathan comes to David and declares, |
| 0:56.3 | like, you know, this is your guilt, and you're thinking, |
| 0:59.2 | you think you've got away with this, |
| 1:00.7 | you didn't get away with this, and David repents. |
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