{"id":10599,"date":"2019-02-18T14:37:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T14:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=10599"},"modified":"2019-02-18T14:37:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T14:37:22","slug":"zeal-for-god-without-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/10599\/zeal-for-god-without-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Zeal for God, without Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Yesterday&#8217;s message regarding zeal for God, without knowledge, gave me a brand new perspective on this scripture, from Hosea (4:6): <strong>\u201cMy people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.\u201d<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I have always considered that scripture to mean that God&#8217;s people wither and perish for what they DON&#8217;T do,\u00a0<i>due to lack of knowledge. \u00a0<\/i>But now I see how all the more, destruction can come from what God&#8217;s people WILL do because of the lack of the knowledge of God.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">In our time, buildings (and human beings) are being blown up; wars are started; hatred abounds; and misappropriated love toward what is evil is everywhere. All of this is due to the lack of the knowledge of God, but a zeal to go forward in his name, nonetheless.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">A prayer for &#8220;zeal for God,&#8221; without having the knowledge of God is a prayer for more energy to<i>\u00a0&#8211; go in the wrong direction!<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I have never considered this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thank you for that!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Jerry<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John,\u00a0 Yesterday&#8217;s message regarding zeal for God, without knowledge, gave me a brand new perspective on this scripture, from Hosea (4:6): \u201cMy people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.\u201d\u00a0 I have always considered that scripture to mean that God&#8217;s people wither and perish for what they DON&#8217;T do,\u00a0due to lack of knowledge. \u00a0But now [&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-10599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599"}],"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=10599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}