{"id":10380,"date":"2018-08-28T14:57:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T14:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=10380"},"modified":"2018-08-28T14:57:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T14:57:11","slug":"losing-the-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/10380\/losing-the-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Losing the Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">When a person baptized in the Holy Spirit is not living in godly way, the holy spirit is grieved.\u00a0 Is it possible that the holy spirit will depart from such a person?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Leika<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hi Leika.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Good question.\u00a0 The short answer is yes.\u00a0 The Spirit may leave a backslider, under certain conditions, while he is still living in this world.\u00a0 Paul refers to those who have been thus cursed as \u201creprobates\u201d (2Cor. 13:5\u20137).\u00a0 If a backslider never repents in this life and dies in his sin, the Spirit will no doubt be taken from him after death; however, <\/em><\/span><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>the Bible is silent about that specific point.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Thankfully, God is very patient, \u201cnot willing that any should perish\u201d, and He will wait for many years, for a wayward child to repent.\u00a0 We may all be thankful for that.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John,\u00a0 When a person baptized in the Holy Spirit is not living in godly way, the holy spirit is grieved.\u00a0 Is it possible that the holy spirit will depart from such a person? Leika ======== Hi Leika. Good question.\u00a0 The short answer is yes.\u00a0 The Spirit may leave a backslider, under certain conditions, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10380"}],"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=10380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}