{"id":10513,"date":"2018-11-16T13:53:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T13:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=10513"},"modified":"2018-11-16T13:53:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T13:53:24","slug":"enemy-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/10513\/enemy-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Enemy of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I was reading this morning and this really struck me.\u00a0 I never really considered being an enemy of God because of sin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Romans 5:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">10. For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Verses 7 and 8 really touched me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Romans 5:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">7. Rarely will someone die for a righteous man, though for a good man, one might possibly bring himself to die,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">8.but God commends to us His kind of love, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Matthew 5:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">44. But I say to\u00a0<i>y<\/i>ou, love\u00a0<i>y<\/i>our enemies; bless those who curse\u00a0<i>y<\/i>ou; do good to those who hate\u00a0<i>y<\/i>ou; and pray for those who mistreat\u00a0<i>y<\/i>ou and persecute\u00a0<i>y<\/i>ou,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">45. so that\u00a0<i>y<\/i>ou may be children of\u00a0<i>y<\/i>our Father who is in heaven. For He makes His sun to rise upon the evil and the good, and sends rain upon the just and the unjust.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Beth D.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John,\u00a0 I was reading this morning and this really struck me.\u00a0 I never really considered being an enemy of God because of sin. Romans 5: 10. For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. [&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-10513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10513"}],"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=10513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}