{"id":10461,"date":"2018-10-11T21:26:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T21:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=10461"},"modified":"2018-10-11T21:26:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T21:26:18","slug":"paying-more-of-our-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/10461\/paying-more-of-our-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Paying More of Our Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Riding into Raleigh this morning, I spent my time feasting again on sister Sheila&#8217;s testimony from Saturday night, replaying it in my mind (and my heart) as I drove.\u00a0\u00a0Somewhere during the part where Sheila entreats us to take heed of the fact that \u201cwe will pay our debts to God before leaving this world if we are going to be saved,\u201d\u00a0God interrupted my thoughts.\u00a0 The injection of His thoughts over my own was overwhelming to me, and it frightened me, as the message that I heard came with a sound and a feeling that scared me.\u00a0 I did my best to record it as I drove, so that I could type it later.\u00a0 This (below) is the best that I can do to reproduce what I heard.\u00a0 I hope I have succeeded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u201cIs God going to pay more of our debt?\u00a0 If we are debtors to people\u2019s hearts, and we don\u2019t make\u00a0<i>that<\/i>\u00a0right, is God going to have to make it right, and are we going to owe him for the work that he\u2019s done\u00a0<i>again?\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">If we hurt the people around us (after we are born again) and we don\u2019t make those things right, and those people have to cry out to God with tears in prayer, and God has to come and mend those hearts because we did not,\u00a0<i>that<\/i>\u00a0is God paying our debt, AGAIN,\u00a0<i>after<\/i>\u00a0the sacrifice of his son!\u00a0\u00a0<b>Will God pay our debt\u00a0<i>again!<\/i>?\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><b>Is God going to pay\u00a0<i><u>more<\/u><\/i>\u00a0of our debt!?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">It scared me brother John.\u00a0 I started pleading with God, \u201cPlease let me pay my debts.\u00a0 God, please show me who it is that I owe; please show me who I\u2019m in debt to, so that I can take care of my own debt and pay what I owe\u00a0<b>before the judgment comes.<\/b>\u00a0 God, allow me to pay my debt, so you don\u2019t have to, once again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The last thought I had was of the man thrown in jail, that Jesus spoke of in\u00a0<b>Luke 12:59,\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u201cI tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the very last penny.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Good night,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Jerry<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John,\u00a0 Riding into Raleigh this morning, I spent my time feasting again on sister Sheila&#8217;s testimony from Saturday night, replaying it in my mind (and my heart) as I drove.\u00a0\u00a0Somewhere during the part where Sheila entreats us to take heed of the fact that \u201cwe will pay our debts to God before leaving this [&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-10461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10461"}],"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=10461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}