Did You Get A Pardon?

                God has pardoned each and every one of us who have been born again....but He did more than pardon us....for He regenerated us beforehand....or we would never have had the faith to seek mercy and forgiveness.
                Charles Colson....Nixon's hatchet man....was despicable in life even before Watergate....although not as despicable as me. Marine Captain....White House Special Counsel....all that honor was gone. He was born again....changed his plea to guilty....went to prison....and later in life headed a marvelous international prison ministry....while writing thirty books....and receiving the Presidential Citizens Medal from President George W. Bush....photographed with him in the same Oval Office where he helped construct the Watergate break-in....and worse.
                It was in the 1990s I believe....when asked if he wanted a pardon for his crimes that he answered....something to this effect...."I have the only pardon that I need.' He did have his voting rights in Florida restored before he went to be with His merciful Savior in 2012.
                His 1976 book....Born Again....was one of the biggest selling books in all categories that year. I may have read it back then....because I was reading everything on Watergate....or I may not have read it until about 1982....the year that I was born again. Either way it had a profound affect on me.
                How about you. Did you get a pardon? Or are you demanding a pardon....or just asking for one....or don't think that you have a need for one? 
                 Below is a sermon by Charles Spurgeon....preached in 1886....five and a half years before Spurgeon went to the King of Kings who had pardoned him forty-six years previous. I confess that I have not yet heard this sermon as of yet....but I plan on it....Lord willing....as soon as I hit here the 'publish' button.