It's All About Pardons!
A Presidential Pardon sounds like good news to a lot of people these days! It is a gift of great value. The right to grant a pardon is given to our Presidents in our Constitution, Article 2, Section 2.
Can it be overturned? No! Not even a unanimous decision of the Supreme Court can overturn a Presidential Pardon! Nor any law or statute passed by Congress.
The only thing that can effect a pardon is that in order to be validated it must be accepted!
In 1830 President Andrew Jackson issued a pardon to George Wilson, a man convicted of a US mail robbery and sentenced to death. He refused it and the Supreme Court determined that a pardon is a deed that requires acceptance from the person pardoned to be confirmed.
Look at what God is offering us:
"I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against Me, and I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned and by which they have transgressed against Me" (Jeremiah 33:8).
Cleansed and pardoned! Erased forever!
Like our human Presidential Pardons, our pardon from God cannot be overturned-- but the requirement is also that it must be accepted!
Not accepting the pardon makes it null and void - completely invalid, has no legal force, considered as if it never existed.
That means the convict is condemned to face punishment as the law requires! Who would want that?
I have accepted God's forever pardon! (It is also preemptive!) Joyfully! Have you?
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