{"id":10970,"date":"2020-02-13T01:28:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T01:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=10970"},"modified":"2024-01-26T14:05:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T19:05:56","slug":"melchizedek-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/10970\/melchizedek-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Melchizedek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hello Pastor John.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I don\u2019t recall ever hearing it discussed but did Melchizedek only have man\u2019s kind of righteousness? Considering he was the \u201cking of righteousness\u201d and the fact that Abraham paid tithes to him and not much else is known about him. I assume he didn\u2019t have God\u2019s righteousness but I\u2019ve never heard it said, or at least I don\u2019t remember hearing about him specifically.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Robert A. Payne, L. G.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">=========<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hi, Bob.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Thanks for the question.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>It was impossible for anyone to possess God&#8217;s kind of righteousness before God&#8217;s extraordinary Son came and paid the price for it. &#8220;King of Righteousness&#8221; is the meaning of the name &#8220;Melchizedek&#8221;; the true King of Righteousness is the Son of God, of whom righteous Melchizedek was only a figure, like Abraham, David, and many others.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Pastor John. I don\u2019t recall ever hearing it discussed but did Melchizedek only have man\u2019s kind of righteousness? Considering he was the \u201cking of righteousness\u201d and the fact that Abraham paid tithes to him and not much else is known about him. I assume he didn\u2019t have God\u2019s righteousness but I\u2019ve never heard it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10970"}],"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=10970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14544,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10970\/revisions\/14544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}