{"id":10605,"date":"2019-02-24T22:10:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T22:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=10605"},"modified":"2019-02-24T22:10:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T22:10:13","slug":"self-will-the-door-to-insanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/10605\/self-will-the-door-to-insanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-will: The Door to Insanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Whew! Enjoyed this article: <em><a style=\"color:#0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Self-will: The Door to Insanity&#8221;<\/a><\/em> .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">This excerpt &#8211; wow!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">&#8220;Self-will is the way that humans conjure up demons from their place of damnation to come inhabit a new home, a human one.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">To understand that &#8220;self-will&#8221;, which is rebelliousness, is to practice the &#8220;sin of divination&#8221;, is a profound thought, Pastor John.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The will of God for us is a safe place.\u00a0 It is a place (the only place) that He created for us that is free from such things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">But I love most of all the simple answer that you gave us for\u00a0this,\u00a0and\u00a0whatever else we stumble at: &#8220;Stay happy and free, and just do the simple, sweet will of God in Christ Jesus.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Only the Truth is simple.\u00a0 And I&#8217;m noticing as I go along, all other conversation\u00a0that\u00a0is edifying, is simply had to get us back there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thank you for this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Jerry<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, Whew! Enjoyed this article: &#8220;Self-will: The Door to Insanity&#8221; . This excerpt &#8211; wow! &#8220;Self-will is the way that humans conjure up demons from their place of damnation to come inhabit a new home, a human one.&#8221; To understand that &#8220;self-will&#8221;, which is rebelliousness, is to practice the &#8220;sin of divination&#8221;, is a [&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-10605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10605"}],"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=10605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}