{"id":10059,"date":"2018-01-17T14:44:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T14:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=10059"},"modified":"2018-01-17T14:44:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T14:44:37","slug":"the-best-is-not-good-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/10059\/the-best-is-not-good-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best is Not Good Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Something else has sunk in!\u00a0\u00a0(I love this life.)\u00a0 I love that Jesus sews the truth into our hearts.\u00a0 I really enjoyed bro Stuart&#8217;s testimony recently about his being &#8220;a good kid\u201d growing up.\u00a0 I have been thinking on it since he told it.\u00a0 To think Stuart grew up doing the right thing, going to school, obeying his parents, but that &#8220;good kid&#8221; needed Jesus just as much as I did.\u00a0 I have heard it over and over that we all needed Jesus and the holy ghost, and I thought I understood it, but when my sweet brother told that testimony, Jesus let it sink in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I was talking to Jesus today and I said, \u201cLord, if I had lived right and had been a good person doing the right thing&#8230;&#8221; and the spirit stopped me and said, \u201dyou would still have gone to Hell.\u201d\u00a0 Oh, that takes my breath away, Pastor John, because \u2026 well, it\u2019s just in there now.\u00a0 I just get it.\u00a0 A plant can be the best plant it can possibly be, and yet it will still never be human.\u00a0 And we can be the best person we can be, and never be holy without the Spirit.\u00a0 It\u2019s in there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Beth <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John,\u00a0 Something else has sunk in!\u00a0\u00a0(I love this life.)\u00a0 I love that Jesus sews the truth into our hearts.\u00a0 I really enjoyed bro Stuart&#8217;s testimony recently about his being &#8220;a good kid\u201d growing up.\u00a0 I have been thinking on it since he told it.\u00a0 To think Stuart grew up doing the right thing, going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}