forgiveness and pardon
February 11th 2008 07:14
In any time of the year and even through-out the history of mankind over the past six thousand years, the word foregiveness, has been the usual name for how to fore give a person a debt that another person owed you, either it was a debt of money, or a debt of harm the other person had done directly to you or to a member of your family. And in the traditional use of the word Foregive, from olden times as the word has been translated from the Ancient Greek, and Latin and Hebrew and German languages it was spelled as to Fore give; which placed it in the form of an announcement by the person being offended or hurt, or harmed either physically or financially or in marital circumstances, or against you or your estate in any way, that you are letting go of your right to have the person prosecuted by law or by family or by the town elders or by the clergy, or by the local and high courts of the land. And in our times the word has been shortened by the removal of the letter “e” at the end of the word Forte; by which we now usually read the word as thus “forgive, and forgiveness.” The meaning also has changed in its application from the olden days to our century to mean the following as the dictionary definition from the on-line dictionary says this about the word forgiveness:
“1. To excuse for a fault or an offense; waive away your rights to restitution for harms done to mean pardon.
2. To renounce anger or resentment against the offender voluntarily.
3. To absolve from payment of (a debt, for example) voluntarily. v.intr. To accord forgiveness.
for•giv a•ble adj. for•giv a•bly adv. for•giv er n. Synonyms: forgive, pardon, excuse, condone: These verbs mean to refrain from imposing punishment on an offender or demanding satisfaction for an offense. The first three can be used as conventional ways of offering apology.”
Where in previous and ancient times, including the times of Noah and Abraham, and since, of the Bible, the words “to foregive and or foregiveness” meant to allow the person the opportunity to escape the death penalty, or imprisonment, or a whip lashing, or from being exiled from out of the society in which every one lived; without giving up ones right to justice if it is required by the offended or harmed man or woman or parents of the child, or owners of the business, or cattle or land.
Today it means “shee’l be right mate,” “no worries, pal,” “its awlrite matey,” and so on. Which basically means that the person has given up their right to restitution’s for harms and offences done against another person. Which leaves the person (you and I) open to other such attacks against us.
The action is one of having held and convened a judicial trial of the facts and of the supposed guilty party (person or others involved in such a criminal act against us), in a matter of moments with in the confines of ones home (or office – or place of work and so on) and to reach a decision about the person’s guilt and as to the type of punishment we would require that person to under go, in reciprocation and repentance and restitution for the amount of damages we have actually under gone by their criminal actions. For example if a neighbour goes around telling every one who will listen to him or her or them, that we are liars, and thieves, and murders, and the police come around to investigate such allegations against us, then there are harms done to our name, and to our personal integrity, and character and the condition of our actual estate in the town, or village or city or neighbourhood we live in, and it can even effect our business in the area as well - A little mud thrown at us sticks for a while until it dries and then it falls off, and while it is stuck there it covers us with its stain. And we have to go along way in having to wash it off of us completely. But the harm done is that of a lie made by a very inconsiderate neighbour. And it is an act of some one bearing a false witness against us. Which is a criminal offense; which is punishable by the Law. At such times the amount of personal damage in terms of equity for a complete restitution in terms of damages incurred can be quite a lot, and can end up in the person being imprisoned.
As children our parents were taught by their parents all the way back to the days of Noah and Abraham and Moses and since, that we are allowed to foregive our brother or sister, or friend or relative for the pushing of them, or for the lie they told about us, or tripped us, or took our toys from us by force and so on, because such things were probably of a minor offence and not done with any sort of malice intended. Then as they grew older from the age of ten years and upward, they were taught how to discern what was a deliberate action of fault against us, and what was just a bit of playful misconduct by our family member or friend or stranger. And it was left up to their parents to rightly judge the situation as to whether a harm done was of a serious one, where by the offender had actually wanted to cause serious harm to their children or to others who were also witnesses. Then it was their parents who decided the nature of the situation and to whether or not the legal authorities were to be called in to arrest the offender and to have them charged with an actual crime and for a judicial judgement by the Law on the matter. And if their parents were not available then the grandparents were called in to sit in on the matter, as to whether or not the legal authorities were needed to be called or not (depending on the type of harm done to one of their children or grandchildren). And so on.
Today those rights of our parents and grandparents are missing. How ever, the parents of today, are being told that they have very little rights to bring another person before the legal authorities, and that the proper way to teach their children of what is punishable by law and which is not (for the sake of making an argument) is to teach their children
hee’l be right mate”, or No worries pal”, or “its cool matey” in order to say, that no one has personal rights any more, let alone the right to judge any and all given situations for one self, and to take the legal and necessary actions to recover the damages done to our selves by another person, or corporation or law enforcement agency or member, or government official, or wealthy people. And so on. Today what we have is a very weakened idea and morality and moral integrity regarding and surrounding the topic of foregiveness, to the terrible state of forgiveness.
The Order of Pardon:
In the order of our societies structure regarding the legal law enforcement based on an act which is judged by most of us in our society as being a criminal act; the whole need and want for a godly moral judgement for a crime that has been done against another person in our society, has basically been replaced with the concept of a person who has committed a crime based on the legal statutes which have been registered and legally stamped and endorsed with in our state legislation and law reformation work’s and books. Therefore it is an attempt to avoid to proper use and function of our Federal Constitutional Laws, by which Australia is supposed to be governed by. And it is an attempt by many to avoid actually being exposed and brought to justice and perhaps even punishment under our Federally Constituted Laws. Therefore, The whole idea of a moral judgement to be brought against the accused (who is actually guilty of the crime) man or woman or company directors or government officials or cult leaders, or sect leaders, and so on, has been white washed over the past five hundred years, and even more so in our day and age, and given the yellow covering of the coward, which says, the crime done was not a moral crime, nor has it breached the Federal Constitutional Laws of Australia, or has it breached the Ten Commandments of the Bible; and that the crime is but a legal one, and the judgement to be given can only be a legal one and not a moral one, based on the current legislative state laws and bi-laws in practice at this time.
Yet today in our times the dictionary definition of a pardon has largely been wiped out of human memory and existence from our law books and statutes, by the so called “do gooders” with in our civil structures and governmental structures and banking fraternity, and law enforcement jurisprudence settings, and from our educational and medical and scientific community sections.
So what is the definition of the word pardon and what is it meant to be able to do for people like you and I? with the on line definition we see it as this:
1par•don Pronunciation: \ˈpär-dən\ Function: noun
Its Etymology is from the Middle English, from Anglo-French pardun, pardoun, from pardoner; Date: 14th century; 1: INDULGENCE 12: the excusing of an offense without exacting a penalty3 a: a release from the legal penalties of an offense b: an official warrant of remission of penalty4: excuse or forgiveness for a fault, offense, or discourtesy <I beg your pardon>. How ever this is just a scratching of the surface of the matter.
If we go back far enough through all of the Constitutional Laws with in the British Empire for example, we will find that the words “To Grant A-Pardon” was a serious matter indeed. For it meant that the Monarchy and not just the local law authorities were involved in the hearing of the case. It was a very serious part of a Kings duty to decide whether or not a person was seen to be worthy of a pardon from him to the accused before him. It was well known back then (six thousand years ago and up to five hundred years ago), that only the King of a Nation as the sovereign head of that Nation could cite and give any one a Pardon. For it meant that such a Pardon, would free the charged and guilty person from the death penalty by various rigorous and horrible ways, the least being, being beheaded, horse drawn and quartered, to being flogged to death, of just being beheaded, or being hung and burned at the stake, or to being crucified on a cross of some kind. And from being given a permanent exile from those lands. And so on.
Such was the importance of a Pardon from the King of a Nation, that once it was given, and granted by the King, then all of the person’s previous holdings ie:- their home, their land, their money, their savings, their title and title deeds, their land grants, and their family, and their business or businesses, or their former teaching status and employment, would be freed from further legal warrant, and were in fact to be fully restored to the person being pardoned. And that their personal family name and former prestige and privileges had to be restored to them, in full, with out further discrimination being held against the guilty and now pardoned person. And that if any one was found to be continually raising a grudge against the pardoned person and their family, and it was discovered by the local legal authorities, or King’s representative, then that person, would be brought up on even more serious charges for going against the Kings Pardon and Authority in the matter, and that person who still holds many a grudge against the pardoned person, could face the death penalty or imprisonment for fifty years or till the persons death, which seldom lasted longer than five years in the local prison’s; or they could be hanged or flogged till death takes them, from their pain and misery. Or they could lose all of their entitlements and privileges and so on, forever more, and be exiled from the lands forever more. And so on. So the word ‘Pardon’ meant a lot more than a release from a particular guilt. It meant that in the eyes of God and the King, the person was never guilty of such crimes, ever. The crime it self and any previous crimes the person had committed was now washed out of the Law Books and Court Register’s permanently, as if that crime and all of his or her previous crimes had never been committed by the person. And the person was a freed man, or woman or child indeed and title and name, for ever, of those crimes.
How ever these days it means some thing like this, Ie:-
1.ease (a person) from punishment; exempt from penalty: a convicted criminal who was pardoned by the governor.
2.To let (an offense) pass without punishment.
3.To make courteous allowance for; excuse: Pardon me, I'm in a hurry.
4.See synonyms at forgive.
n.
1.The act of pardoning.
2.Law.
a.Exemption of a convicted person from the penalties of an offense or crime by the power of the executor of the laws.
b.An official document or warrant declaring such an exemption.
3.Allowance or forgiveness for an offense or a discourtesy: begged the host's pardon for leaving early.
4.Roman Catholic Church. An indulgence.
[Middle English pardonen, from Old French pardoner, perdōnāre, to give wholeheartedly : Latin per-, intensive pref.; Latin dōnāre, to present, forgive (from dōnum, gift).] pardonable par'don•a•ble adj. pardonableness, par'don•a•ble•ness n. pardonably par'don•a•bly adv.
In our lives and society today, especially with in the British and Christian realms, the word Pardon, has sank so low as to mean, very little beyond, the letting go of a person from a crime, that deserved a long term period of imprisonment or death or exile. And that the person’s particular wealth, home, business or businesses, and finances and savings and trade goods, and good will, and family name and family members (wife, or husband, and any children and so on), and titles and land grants were never in jeopardy from the full punishment of the Constitutional Laws of the Monarchy of the nation; nor of the highest court in the land just below of the Kings pardon… It means in our lives today, that even if a person was granted immunity and full pardon from the crime he or she had committed, and given a pardon of today, then the person still has any previous crimes listed against him or her. They do not have any thing of the previous life pardoned and freed from. In fact today the act of a pardon is seen to be a breach of social conscious by the so called “do gooders” and those behind the scenes of those in normal authority today in Australian society and government and in Australia and around the world. And even the legal standing of the court ruling in our world and in Australia today for a “Decree Nisi” to be rendered to a guilty person, only serves a minor role in a guilty person’s life. It does nothing to write off all of the person’s former life.
How ever in the eyes of God whose authority over rules all other authorities in the world and in any nation, the word and act of a pardon has never lost any of its right and privilege and power and authority. And this is some thing that He instituted just six thousand years ago. It is from His Constitutional Laws held with in the Ten Commandments and His Word and Doctrines and Statutes, and Gospel of Jesus Christ, that we in mankind began to use His teaching about Foregiveness and Pardon, close to six thousand years ago, in the attitude He requires of us all to use it. For if we (mankind), were to be judged by Him for all of our crimes since the fall of Adam six thousand years ago, and after the world wide flood in which He saved mankind from total extinction (in the saving of Noah and his family), then we would all deserve total extinction, and delivered up to eternal damnation. For none of us are free from rimes against Him and against His Word and against the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and against the Holt Ghost.
So there are three types of Forgiveness, and Pardon, of which we need to consider all of the time in our lives from now on. First of all there is God’s full foregiveness and full pardon, under the justification of Jesus Christ, for His predestined and effectually called chosen people, through out the previous centuries and for those to come in to the fold according to God’s infallible and incorruptible Word; then there is the one registered previously by the King of a Nation; and then we have the local state law of a decree nisi, or forgiveness and pardon. The ones which grow weaker and weaker every year, are the Kings Right to pronounce some one with a full pardon and foregiveness, and then there is our current ones in use and practice today. The one that never fails to uphold it self in heaven as it does in the earth, is the one given to those who the father has predestined to be given to His only begotten Son Jesus Christ, who are filled with the Holy Ghost and baptized in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, in Jesus the Christ Name.
How we teach our children today and how they will be able to teach their children and so on, on the proper and full meaning of the words forgiveness, and pardon, ought to be done with the knowledge and experience of having been foregiven and pardoned, by God in Jesus Christ, who is the only mediator and justifier of His effectually called people, according to the Word of God. If you have enough money to buy a Bible (authorized King James Bible) and the Westminster Confession of Faith, then I urge every one to do so, and to see for your selves as to the meaning and purpose of the words foregiveness and pardon. And if you know the original ancient Hebrew and Greek languages then you can also buy a copy of the original Hebrew Text and the original Greek Textus Receptus Text and to see it again more properly and come to believe it for your selves from the original Word of God, as He fore-ordained and predestined His Word to be established in the world for all to see and know for our selves, with out further authentication by Him, nor Jesus Christ.
And I ask you too, to consider whose job and right and duty is it to educate your children these things? Is it up to the school teachers, or up to the principle of our schools, or is it up to the scholars in our society, or of the so called counselors that have spread like a cancer into every area of our lives and places of work and business and education? Or is it up to us as parents and is it up to our Minister’s and perhaps priest? Or is it up to the local law authorities and legislative assembly, and so on? I for one, know and understand, that it is first the duty of our parent, then with the help of our Minister’s with the Holy Bible, and Westminster Confession of Faith, and possibly those priests that abound every where around us, and then with consideration from our members of parliament, and law courts, and up to our legislative assembly, and then the Constitutional Law of our Nation.
And if you check the internet for these things you can have a look at this website:
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As God says in His Word: Psalm One - 1: Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2: But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. 3: And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. 4: The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. 5: Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. 6: For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. And in Psalm Two - 1: Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2: The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, 3: Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. 4: He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. 5: Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. 6: Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. 7: I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. 8: Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. 9: Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. 10: Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. 11: Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. 12: Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. And in Psalm Three - 1: LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me. 2: Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah. 3: But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head. 4: I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah. 5: I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me. 6: I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about. 7: Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly. 8: Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah.
CHAPTER XI.
Of Justification.
I. Those whom God effectually calleth, he also freely justifieth: not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins, and by accounting and accepting their persons as righteous; not for any thing wrought in them, or done by them, but for Christ's sake alone; not by imputing faith itself, the act of believing, or any other evangelical obedience to them, as their righteousness; but by imputing the obedience and satisfaction of Christ unto them, they receiving and resting on him and his righteousness by faith; which faith they have not of themselves, it is the gift of God.
II. Faith, thus receiving and resting on Christ and his righteousness, is the alone instrument of justification; yet is it not alone in the person justified, but is ever accompanied with all other saving graces, and is no dead faith, but worketh by love.
III. Christ, by his obedience and death, did fully discharge the debt of all those that are thus justified, and did make a proper, real, and full satisfaction of his Father's justice in their behalf. Yet inasmuch as he was given by the Father for them, and his obedience and satisfaction accepted in their stead, and both freely, not for any thing in them, their justification is only of free grace, that both the exact justice and rich grace of God might be glorified in the justification of sinners.
IV. God did, from all eternity, decree to justify the elect; and Christ did, in the fullness of time, die for their sins and rise again for their justification; nevertheless they are not justified until the Holy Spirit doth, in due time, actually apply Christ unto them.
V. God doth continue to forgive the sins of those that are justified; and although they can never fall from the state of justification, yet they may by their sins fall under God's Fatherly displeasure, and not have the light of his countenance restored unto them, until they humble themselves, confess their sins, beg pardon, and renew their faith and repentance.
VI. The justification of believers under the Old Testament was, in all these respect, one and the same with the justification of believers under the New Testament.
And in the chapter for Christian Liberty and Liberty of Conscience it says this:
CHAPTER XX.
Of Christian Liberty, and Liberty of Conscience.
I. The liberty which Christ hath purchased for believers under the gospel consists in their freedom from the guilt of sin, the condemning wrath of God, the curse of the moral law; and in their being delivered from this present evil world, bondage to Satan, and dominion of sin, from the evil of afflictions, the sting of death, the victory of the grave, and everlasting damnation; as also in their free access to God, and their yielding obedience unto him, not out of slavish fear, but a childlike love, and a willing mind. All which were common also to believers under the law; but under the New Testament the liberty of Christians is further enlarged in their freedom from the yoke of the ceremonial law, to which the Jewish Church was subjected; and in greater boldness of access to the throne of grace, and in fuller communications of the free Spirit of God, than believers under the law did ordinarily partake of.
II. God alone is Lord of the conscience, and hath left it free from the doctrines and commandments of men which are in any thing contrary to his Word, or beside it in matters of faith on worship. So that to believe such doctrines, or to obey such commandments out of conscience, is to betray true liberty of conscience; and the requiring an implicit faith, and an absolute and blind obedience, is to destroy liberty of conscience, and reason also.
III. They who, upon pretense of Christian liberty, do practice any sin, or cherish any lust, do thereby destroy the end of Christian liberty; which is, that, being delivered out of the hands of our enemies, we might serve the Lord without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
IV. And because the powers which God hath ordained, and the liberty which Christ hath purchased, are not intended by God to destroy, but mutually to uphold and preserve one another; they who, upon pretence of Christian liberty, shall oppose any lawful power, or the lawful exercise of it, whether it be civil or ecclesiastical, resist the ordinance of God. And, for their publishing of such opinions, or maintaining of such practices, as are contrary to the light of nature, or to the known principles of Christianity, whether concerning faith, worship, or conversation; or, to the power of godliness; or, such erroneous opinions or practices, as either in their own nature, or in the manner of publishing or maintaining them, are destructive to the external peace and order which Christ hath established in the Church, they may lawfully be called to account, and proceeded against by the censures of the Church, and by the power of the civil magistrate.
Of Christ the Mediator.
I. It pleased God, in his eternal purpose, to choose and ordain the Lord Jesus, his only-begotten Son, to be the Mediator between God and men, the prophet, priest, and king; the head and Savior of the Church, the heir or all things, and judge of the world; unto whom he did, from all eternity, give a people to be his seed, and to be by him in time redeemed, called, justified, sanctified, and glorified.
II. The Son of God, the second Person in the Trinity, being very and eternal God, of one substance, and equal with the Father, did, when the fullness of time was come, take upon him man's nature, with all the essential properties and common infirmities thereof; yet without sin: being conceived by he power of the Holy Ghost, in the womb of the Virgin Mary, of her substance. So that two whole, perfect, and distinct natures, the Godhead and the manhood, were inseparably joined together in one person, without conversion, composition, or confusion. Which person is very God and very man, yet one Christ, the only Mediator between God and man.
III. The Lord Jesus in his human nature thus united to the divine, was sanctified and anointed with the Holy Spirit above measure; having in him all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, in whom it pleased the Father that all fullness should dwell: to the end that being holy, harmless, undefiled, and full of grace and truth, he might be thoroughly furnished to execute the office of a Mediator and Surety. Which office he took not unto himself, but was thereunto called by his Father; who put all power and judgment into his hand, and gave him commandment to execute the same.
IV. This office the Lord Jesus did most willingly undertake, which, that he might discharge, he was made under the law, and did perfectly fulfill it; endured most grievous torments immediately in his soul, and most painful sufferings in his body; was crucified and died; was buried, and remained under the power of death, yet saw no corruption. On the third day he arose from the dead, with the same body in which he suffered; with which also he ascended into heaven, and there sitteth at the right hand of his Father, making intercession; and shall return to judge men and angels, at the end of the world.
V. The Lord Jesus, by his perfect obedience and sacrifice of himself, which he through the eternal Spirit once offered up unto God, hath fully satisfied the justice of his Father; and purchased not only reconciliation, but an everlasting inheritance in the kingdom of heaven, for all those whom the Father hath given unto him.
VI. Although the work of redemption was not actually wrought by Christ till after his incarnation, yet the virtue, efficacy, and benefits thereof were communicated into the elect, in all ages successively from the beginning of the world, in and by those promises, types, and sacrifices wherein he was revealed, and signified to be the seed of the woman, which should bruise the serpent's head, and the Lamb slain from the beginning of the world, being yesterday and today the same and for ever.
VII. Christ, in the work of mediation, acteth according to both natures; by each nature doing that which is proper to itself; yet by reason of the unity of the person, that which is proper to one nature is sometimes, in Scripture, attributed to the person denominated by the other nature.
VIII. To all those for whom Christ hath purchased redemption, he doth certainly and effectually apply and communicate the same; making intercession for them, and revealing unto them, in and by the Word, the mysteries of salvation; effectually persuading them by his Spirit to believe and obey; and governing their hearts by his Word and Spirit; overcoming all their enemies by his almighty power and wisdom, in such manner and ways as are most consonant to his wonderful and unsearchable dispensation. In these things we need only to look for these things for our selves, to eventually know for our selves that these things are true. But what of the actual act of foregiveness and pardon that we are supposed to live by now-a-days? Well as you can see, these things today mean nothing, and that it is only the Word of God that has the full authority and only authority over all nations and kingdoms and communities and sects and cults, and societies and laws on these matters.
So who should you turn to or call upon for more advice on these things? Smile….you know now, and it is up to you to see it for your self and for your rights to be upheld by the state and federal laws of our nation. Or make a big fuss to make sure that they are upheld as they are intended to be done so, by God’s Word and Commandments.
Cheerio for now. Sincerely, your very true friend, The Old Man.
“1. To excuse for a fault or an offense; waive away your rights to restitution for harms done to mean pardon.
2. To renounce anger or resentment against the offender voluntarily.
3. To absolve from payment of (a debt, for example) voluntarily. v.intr. To accord forgiveness.
for•giv a•ble adj. for•giv a•bly adv. for•giv er n. Synonyms: forgive, pardon, excuse, condone: These verbs mean to refrain from imposing punishment on an offender or demanding satisfaction for an offense. The first three can be used as conventional ways of offering apology.”
Where in previous and ancient times, including the times of Noah and Abraham, and since, of the Bible, the words “to foregive and or foregiveness” meant to allow the person the opportunity to escape the death penalty, or imprisonment, or a whip lashing, or from being exiled from out of the society in which every one lived; without giving up ones right to justice if it is required by the offended or harmed man or woman or parents of the child, or owners of the business, or cattle or land.
Today it means “shee’l be right mate,” “no worries, pal,” “its awlrite matey,” and so on. Which basically means that the person has given up their right to restitution’s for harms and offences done against another person. Which leaves the person (you and I) open to other such attacks against us.
The action is one of having held and convened a judicial trial of the facts and of the supposed guilty party (person or others involved in such a criminal act against us), in a matter of moments with in the confines of ones home (or office – or place of work and so on) and to reach a decision about the person’s guilt and as to the type of punishment we would require that person to under go, in reciprocation and repentance and restitution for the amount of damages we have actually under gone by their criminal actions. For example if a neighbour goes around telling every one who will listen to him or her or them, that we are liars, and thieves, and murders, and the police come around to investigate such allegations against us, then there are harms done to our name, and to our personal integrity, and character and the condition of our actual estate in the town, or village or city or neighbourhood we live in, and it can even effect our business in the area as well - A little mud thrown at us sticks for a while until it dries and then it falls off, and while it is stuck there it covers us with its stain. And we have to go along way in having to wash it off of us completely. But the harm done is that of a lie made by a very inconsiderate neighbour. And it is an act of some one bearing a false witness against us. Which is a criminal offense; which is punishable by the Law. At such times the amount of personal damage in terms of equity for a complete restitution in terms of damages incurred can be quite a lot, and can end up in the person being imprisoned.
As children our parents were taught by their parents all the way back to the days of Noah and Abraham and Moses and since, that we are allowed to foregive our brother or sister, or friend or relative for the pushing of them, or for the lie they told about us, or tripped us, or took our toys from us by force and so on, because such things were probably of a minor offence and not done with any sort of malice intended. Then as they grew older from the age of ten years and upward, they were taught how to discern what was a deliberate action of fault against us, and what was just a bit of playful misconduct by our family member or friend or stranger. And it was left up to their parents to rightly judge the situation as to whether a harm done was of a serious one, where by the offender had actually wanted to cause serious harm to their children or to others who were also witnesses. Then it was their parents who decided the nature of the situation and to whether or not the legal authorities were to be called in to arrest the offender and to have them charged with an actual crime and for a judicial judgement by the Law on the matter. And if their parents were not available then the grandparents were called in to sit in on the matter, as to whether or not the legal authorities were needed to be called or not (depending on the type of harm done to one of their children or grandchildren). And so on.
Today those rights of our parents and grandparents are missing. How ever, the parents of today, are being told that they have very little rights to bring another person before the legal authorities, and that the proper way to teach their children of what is punishable by law and which is not (for the sake of making an argument) is to teach their children
hee’l be right mate”, or No worries pal”, or “its cool matey” in order to say, that no one has personal rights any more, let alone the right to judge any and all given situations for one self, and to take the legal and necessary actions to recover the damages done to our selves by another person, or corporation or law enforcement agency or member, or government official, or wealthy people. And so on. Today what we have is a very weakened idea and morality and moral integrity regarding and surrounding the topic of foregiveness, to the terrible state of forgiveness. The Order of Pardon:
In the order of our societies structure regarding the legal law enforcement based on an act which is judged by most of us in our society as being a criminal act; the whole need and want for a godly moral judgement for a crime that has been done against another person in our society, has basically been replaced with the concept of a person who has committed a crime based on the legal statutes which have been registered and legally stamped and endorsed with in our state legislation and law reformation work’s and books. Therefore it is an attempt to avoid to proper use and function of our Federal Constitutional Laws, by which Australia is supposed to be governed by. And it is an attempt by many to avoid actually being exposed and brought to justice and perhaps even punishment under our Federally Constituted Laws. Therefore, The whole idea of a moral judgement to be brought against the accused (who is actually guilty of the crime) man or woman or company directors or government officials or cult leaders, or sect leaders, and so on, has been white washed over the past five hundred years, and even more so in our day and age, and given the yellow covering of the coward, which says, the crime done was not a moral crime, nor has it breached the Federal Constitutional Laws of Australia, or has it breached the Ten Commandments of the Bible; and that the crime is but a legal one, and the judgement to be given can only be a legal one and not a moral one, based on the current legislative state laws and bi-laws in practice at this time.
Yet today in our times the dictionary definition of a pardon has largely been wiped out of human memory and existence from our law books and statutes, by the so called “do gooders” with in our civil structures and governmental structures and banking fraternity, and law enforcement jurisprudence settings, and from our educational and medical and scientific community sections.
So what is the definition of the word pardon and what is it meant to be able to do for people like you and I? with the on line definition we see it as this:
1par•don Pronunciation: \ˈpär-dən\ Function: noun
Its Etymology is from the Middle English, from Anglo-French pardun, pardoun, from pardoner; Date: 14th century; 1: INDULGENCE 12: the excusing of an offense without exacting a penalty3 a: a release from the legal penalties of an offense b: an official warrant of remission of penalty4: excuse or forgiveness for a fault, offense, or discourtesy <I beg your pardon>. How ever this is just a scratching of the surface of the matter.
If we go back far enough through all of the Constitutional Laws with in the British Empire for example, we will find that the words “To Grant A-Pardon” was a serious matter indeed. For it meant that the Monarchy and not just the local law authorities were involved in the hearing of the case. It was a very serious part of a Kings duty to decide whether or not a person was seen to be worthy of a pardon from him to the accused before him. It was well known back then (six thousand years ago and up to five hundred years ago), that only the King of a Nation as the sovereign head of that Nation could cite and give any one a Pardon. For it meant that such a Pardon, would free the charged and guilty person from the death penalty by various rigorous and horrible ways, the least being, being beheaded, horse drawn and quartered, to being flogged to death, of just being beheaded, or being hung and burned at the stake, or to being crucified on a cross of some kind. And from being given a permanent exile from those lands. And so on.
Such was the importance of a Pardon from the King of a Nation, that once it was given, and granted by the King, then all of the person’s previous holdings ie:- their home, their land, their money, their savings, their title and title deeds, their land grants, and their family, and their business or businesses, or their former teaching status and employment, would be freed from further legal warrant, and were in fact to be fully restored to the person being pardoned. And that their personal family name and former prestige and privileges had to be restored to them, in full, with out further discrimination being held against the guilty and now pardoned person. And that if any one was found to be continually raising a grudge against the pardoned person and their family, and it was discovered by the local legal authorities, or King’s representative, then that person, would be brought up on even more serious charges for going against the Kings Pardon and Authority in the matter, and that person who still holds many a grudge against the pardoned person, could face the death penalty or imprisonment for fifty years or till the persons death, which seldom lasted longer than five years in the local prison’s; or they could be hanged or flogged till death takes them, from their pain and misery. Or they could lose all of their entitlements and privileges and so on, forever more, and be exiled from the lands forever more. And so on. So the word ‘Pardon’ meant a lot more than a release from a particular guilt. It meant that in the eyes of God and the King, the person was never guilty of such crimes, ever. The crime it self and any previous crimes the person had committed was now washed out of the Law Books and Court Register’s permanently, as if that crime and all of his or her previous crimes had never been committed by the person. And the person was a freed man, or woman or child indeed and title and name, for ever, of those crimes.
How ever these days it means some thing like this, Ie:-
1.ease (a person) from punishment; exempt from penalty: a convicted criminal who was pardoned by the governor.
2.To let (an offense) pass without punishment.
3.To make courteous allowance for; excuse: Pardon me, I'm in a hurry.
4.See synonyms at forgive.
n.
1.The act of pardoning.
2.Law.
a.Exemption of a convicted person from the penalties of an offense or crime by the power of the executor of the laws.
b.An official document or warrant declaring such an exemption.
3.Allowance or forgiveness for an offense or a discourtesy: begged the host's pardon for leaving early.
4.Roman Catholic Church. An indulgence.
[Middle English pardonen, from Old French pardoner, perdōnāre, to give wholeheartedly : Latin per-, intensive pref.; Latin dōnāre, to present, forgive (from dōnum, gift).] pardonable par'don•a•ble adj. pardonableness, par'don•a•ble•ness n. pardonably par'don•a•bly adv.
In our lives and society today, especially with in the British and Christian realms, the word Pardon, has sank so low as to mean, very little beyond, the letting go of a person from a crime, that deserved a long term period of imprisonment or death or exile. And that the person’s particular wealth, home, business or businesses, and finances and savings and trade goods, and good will, and family name and family members (wife, or husband, and any children and so on), and titles and land grants were never in jeopardy from the full punishment of the Constitutional Laws of the Monarchy of the nation; nor of the highest court in the land just below of the Kings pardon… It means in our lives today, that even if a person was granted immunity and full pardon from the crime he or she had committed, and given a pardon of today, then the person still has any previous crimes listed against him or her. They do not have any thing of the previous life pardoned and freed from. In fact today the act of a pardon is seen to be a breach of social conscious by the so called “do gooders” and those behind the scenes of those in normal authority today in Australian society and government and in Australia and around the world. And even the legal standing of the court ruling in our world and in Australia today for a “Decree Nisi” to be rendered to a guilty person, only serves a minor role in a guilty person’s life. It does nothing to write off all of the person’s former life.
How ever in the eyes of God whose authority over rules all other authorities in the world and in any nation, the word and act of a pardon has never lost any of its right and privilege and power and authority. And this is some thing that He instituted just six thousand years ago. It is from His Constitutional Laws held with in the Ten Commandments and His Word and Doctrines and Statutes, and Gospel of Jesus Christ, that we in mankind began to use His teaching about Foregiveness and Pardon, close to six thousand years ago, in the attitude He requires of us all to use it. For if we (mankind), were to be judged by Him for all of our crimes since the fall of Adam six thousand years ago, and after the world wide flood in which He saved mankind from total extinction (in the saving of Noah and his family), then we would all deserve total extinction, and delivered up to eternal damnation. For none of us are free from rimes against Him and against His Word and against the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and against the Holt Ghost.
So there are three types of Forgiveness, and Pardon, of which we need to consider all of the time in our lives from now on. First of all there is God’s full foregiveness and full pardon, under the justification of Jesus Christ, for His predestined and effectually called chosen people, through out the previous centuries and for those to come in to the fold according to God’s infallible and incorruptible Word; then there is the one registered previously by the King of a Nation; and then we have the local state law of a decree nisi, or forgiveness and pardon. The ones which grow weaker and weaker every year, are the Kings Right to pronounce some one with a full pardon and foregiveness, and then there is our current ones in use and practice today. The one that never fails to uphold it self in heaven as it does in the earth, is the one given to those who the father has predestined to be given to His only begotten Son Jesus Christ, who are filled with the Holy Ghost and baptized in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, in Jesus the Christ Name.
How we teach our children today and how they will be able to teach their children and so on, on the proper and full meaning of the words forgiveness, and pardon, ought to be done with the knowledge and experience of having been foregiven and pardoned, by God in Jesus Christ, who is the only mediator and justifier of His effectually called people, according to the Word of God. If you have enough money to buy a Bible (authorized King James Bible) and the Westminster Confession of Faith, then I urge every one to do so, and to see for your selves as to the meaning and purpose of the words foregiveness and pardon. And if you know the original ancient Hebrew and Greek languages then you can also buy a copy of the original Hebrew Text and the original Greek Textus Receptus Text and to see it again more properly and come to believe it for your selves from the original Word of God, as He fore-ordained and predestined His Word to be established in the world for all to see and know for our selves, with out further authentication by Him, nor Jesus Christ.
And I ask you too, to consider whose job and right and duty is it to educate your children these things? Is it up to the school teachers, or up to the principle of our schools, or is it up to the scholars in our society, or of the so called counselors that have spread like a cancer into every area of our lives and places of work and business and education? Or is it up to us as parents and is it up to our Minister’s and perhaps priest? Or is it up to the local law authorities and legislative assembly, and so on? I for one, know and understand, that it is first the duty of our parent, then with the help of our Minister’s with the Holy Bible, and Westminster Confession of Faith, and possibly those priests that abound every where around us, and then with consideration from our members of parliament, and law courts, and up to our legislative assembly, and then the Constitutional Law of our Nation.
And if you check the internet for these things you can have a look at this website:
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As God says in His Word: Psalm One - 1: Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2: But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. 3: And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. 4: The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. 5: Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. 6: For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. And in Psalm Two - 1: Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2: The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, 3: Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. 4: He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. 5: Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. 6: Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. 7: I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. 8: Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. 9: Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. 10: Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. 11: Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. 12: Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. And in Psalm Three - 1: LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me. 2: Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah. 3: But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head. 4: I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah. 5: I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me. 6: I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about. 7: Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly. 8: Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah.
CHAPTER XI.
Of Justification.
I. Those whom God effectually calleth, he also freely justifieth: not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins, and by accounting and accepting their persons as righteous; not for any thing wrought in them, or done by them, but for Christ's sake alone; not by imputing faith itself, the act of believing, or any other evangelical obedience to them, as their righteousness; but by imputing the obedience and satisfaction of Christ unto them, they receiving and resting on him and his righteousness by faith; which faith they have not of themselves, it is the gift of God.
II. Faith, thus receiving and resting on Christ and his righteousness, is the alone instrument of justification; yet is it not alone in the person justified, but is ever accompanied with all other saving graces, and is no dead faith, but worketh by love.
III. Christ, by his obedience and death, did fully discharge the debt of all those that are thus justified, and did make a proper, real, and full satisfaction of his Father's justice in their behalf. Yet inasmuch as he was given by the Father for them, and his obedience and satisfaction accepted in their stead, and both freely, not for any thing in them, their justification is only of free grace, that both the exact justice and rich grace of God might be glorified in the justification of sinners.
IV. God did, from all eternity, decree to justify the elect; and Christ did, in the fullness of time, die for their sins and rise again for their justification; nevertheless they are not justified until the Holy Spirit doth, in due time, actually apply Christ unto them.
V. God doth continue to forgive the sins of those that are justified; and although they can never fall from the state of justification, yet they may by their sins fall under God's Fatherly displeasure, and not have the light of his countenance restored unto them, until they humble themselves, confess their sins, beg pardon, and renew their faith and repentance.
VI. The justification of believers under the Old Testament was, in all these respect, one and the same with the justification of believers under the New Testament.
And in the chapter for Christian Liberty and Liberty of Conscience it says this:
CHAPTER XX.
Of Christian Liberty, and Liberty of Conscience.
I. The liberty which Christ hath purchased for believers under the gospel consists in their freedom from the guilt of sin, the condemning wrath of God, the curse of the moral law; and in their being delivered from this present evil world, bondage to Satan, and dominion of sin, from the evil of afflictions, the sting of death, the victory of the grave, and everlasting damnation; as also in their free access to God, and their yielding obedience unto him, not out of slavish fear, but a childlike love, and a willing mind. All which were common also to believers under the law; but under the New Testament the liberty of Christians is further enlarged in their freedom from the yoke of the ceremonial law, to which the Jewish Church was subjected; and in greater boldness of access to the throne of grace, and in fuller communications of the free Spirit of God, than believers under the law did ordinarily partake of.
II. God alone is Lord of the conscience, and hath left it free from the doctrines and commandments of men which are in any thing contrary to his Word, or beside it in matters of faith on worship. So that to believe such doctrines, or to obey such commandments out of conscience, is to betray true liberty of conscience; and the requiring an implicit faith, and an absolute and blind obedience, is to destroy liberty of conscience, and reason also.
III. They who, upon pretense of Christian liberty, do practice any sin, or cherish any lust, do thereby destroy the end of Christian liberty; which is, that, being delivered out of the hands of our enemies, we might serve the Lord without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
IV. And because the powers which God hath ordained, and the liberty which Christ hath purchased, are not intended by God to destroy, but mutually to uphold and preserve one another; they who, upon pretence of Christian liberty, shall oppose any lawful power, or the lawful exercise of it, whether it be civil or ecclesiastical, resist the ordinance of God. And, for their publishing of such opinions, or maintaining of such practices, as are contrary to the light of nature, or to the known principles of Christianity, whether concerning faith, worship, or conversation; or, to the power of godliness; or, such erroneous opinions or practices, as either in their own nature, or in the manner of publishing or maintaining them, are destructive to the external peace and order which Christ hath established in the Church, they may lawfully be called to account, and proceeded against by the censures of the Church, and by the power of the civil magistrate.
Of Christ the Mediator.
I. It pleased God, in his eternal purpose, to choose and ordain the Lord Jesus, his only-begotten Son, to be the Mediator between God and men, the prophet, priest, and king; the head and Savior of the Church, the heir or all things, and judge of the world; unto whom he did, from all eternity, give a people to be his seed, and to be by him in time redeemed, called, justified, sanctified, and glorified.
II. The Son of God, the second Person in the Trinity, being very and eternal God, of one substance, and equal with the Father, did, when the fullness of time was come, take upon him man's nature, with all the essential properties and common infirmities thereof; yet without sin: being conceived by he power of the Holy Ghost, in the womb of the Virgin Mary, of her substance. So that two whole, perfect, and distinct natures, the Godhead and the manhood, were inseparably joined together in one person, without conversion, composition, or confusion. Which person is very God and very man, yet one Christ, the only Mediator between God and man.
III. The Lord Jesus in his human nature thus united to the divine, was sanctified and anointed with the Holy Spirit above measure; having in him all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, in whom it pleased the Father that all fullness should dwell: to the end that being holy, harmless, undefiled, and full of grace and truth, he might be thoroughly furnished to execute the office of a Mediator and Surety. Which office he took not unto himself, but was thereunto called by his Father; who put all power and judgment into his hand, and gave him commandment to execute the same.
IV. This office the Lord Jesus did most willingly undertake, which, that he might discharge, he was made under the law, and did perfectly fulfill it; endured most grievous torments immediately in his soul, and most painful sufferings in his body; was crucified and died; was buried, and remained under the power of death, yet saw no corruption. On the third day he arose from the dead, with the same body in which he suffered; with which also he ascended into heaven, and there sitteth at the right hand of his Father, making intercession; and shall return to judge men and angels, at the end of the world.
V. The Lord Jesus, by his perfect obedience and sacrifice of himself, which he through the eternal Spirit once offered up unto God, hath fully satisfied the justice of his Father; and purchased not only reconciliation, but an everlasting inheritance in the kingdom of heaven, for all those whom the Father hath given unto him.
VI. Although the work of redemption was not actually wrought by Christ till after his incarnation, yet the virtue, efficacy, and benefits thereof were communicated into the elect, in all ages successively from the beginning of the world, in and by those promises, types, and sacrifices wherein he was revealed, and signified to be the seed of the woman, which should bruise the serpent's head, and the Lamb slain from the beginning of the world, being yesterday and today the same and for ever.
VII. Christ, in the work of mediation, acteth according to both natures; by each nature doing that which is proper to itself; yet by reason of the unity of the person, that which is proper to one nature is sometimes, in Scripture, attributed to the person denominated by the other nature.
VIII. To all those for whom Christ hath purchased redemption, he doth certainly and effectually apply and communicate the same; making intercession for them, and revealing unto them, in and by the Word, the mysteries of salvation; effectually persuading them by his Spirit to believe and obey; and governing their hearts by his Word and Spirit; overcoming all their enemies by his almighty power and wisdom, in such manner and ways as are most consonant to his wonderful and unsearchable dispensation. In these things we need only to look for these things for our selves, to eventually know for our selves that these things are true. But what of the actual act of foregiveness and pardon that we are supposed to live by now-a-days? Well as you can see, these things today mean nothing, and that it is only the Word of God that has the full authority and only authority over all nations and kingdoms and communities and sects and cults, and societies and laws on these matters.
So who should you turn to or call upon for more advice on these things? Smile….you know now, and it is up to you to see it for your self and for your rights to be upheld by the state and federal laws of our nation. Or make a big fuss to make sure that they are upheld as they are intended to be done so, by God’s Word and Commandments.
Cheerio for now. Sincerely, your very true friend, The Old Man.
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