{"id":10493,"date":"2018-10-29T20:01:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T20:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=10493"},"modified":"2018-10-29T20:01:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T20:01:50","slug":"listening-to-the-spirit-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/10493\/listening-to-the-spirit-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening to the Spirit Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I&#8217;ve heard it said, &#8220;Good intentions pave the way to hell.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Well, what road are &#8220;bad&#8221; intentions paving?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I don&#8217;t believe God wrote that scripture.\u00a0 I think good intentions pave a way for Jesus to show up in your life and introduce you to holy intentions and holy actions!\u00a0 What can a man have beyond a good intention before God shows up?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Man&#8217;s goodness is not the righteousness of God, and it will not get you into heaven.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">But your goodness will precede your being a partaker of God&#8217;s Holiness, if you&#8217;re ever going to partake of it at all.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Jerry D.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">==========\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>That\u2019s true, Jerry.\u00a0 Our righteousness will not save us, but Jesus said he calls those who are laboring, trying to do what is right, and yet still longing for God\u2019s righteousness (Mt. 11:28).\u00a0 And though he told his disciples that they must go beyond human righteousness (e.g., Mt. 5:20), he did not tell them to despise it.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Thank God for everybody, everywhere, who is trying to do good!\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John,\u00a0 I&#8217;ve heard it said, &#8220;Good intentions pave the way to hell.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Well, what road are &#8220;bad&#8221; intentions paving?\u00a0 I don&#8217;t believe God wrote that scripture.\u00a0 I think good intentions pave a way for Jesus to show up in your life and introduce you to holy intentions and holy actions!\u00a0 What can a man [&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-10493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10493"}],"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=10493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}