{"id":11139,"date":"2020-04-20T23:29:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T23:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=11139"},"modified":"2020-04-20T23:29:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T23:29:00","slug":"the-foolishness-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/11139\/the-foolishness-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Foolishness of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hi John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I listened to a message by you this morning, entitled, &#8220;Prepare to Die, to Live&#8221;, dated 4\/98.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">In it, you quoted Psalm 90:10-12:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 10. The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason or strength \u00a0 they be fourscore years, yet is their strength, labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 11. Who knoweth the power of thine anger? Even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0 12. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Yesterday, Dee and I were at the grocery store. Probably, about a third of the people there, including the workers, were wearing masks. People were not paying attention to the one-way arrows on the floor, and the checkers were not wiping down the counters each time after checking people out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Now, the country is on the edge of revolt, carrying signs and threatening politicians that they won&#8217;t be reelected if they don&#8217;t &#8220;open up&#8221; the country. What foolishness, what profound lack of wisdom! God&#8217;s wrath on this countries&#8217;s foolishness could create a second wave or possibly a third. It&#8217;s already happened in other countries. This protesting is so selfish, not thinking about the safety and well-being of our healthcare and frontline workers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">John, thank you for teaching us against the things that are foolishness and encouraging us in the things that are wise. Let us not be like the Corinthians that seemed such a burden on Paul because of their lack of wisdom. We need help every day. May the Lord help us in our decision making.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">God bless,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Jim K.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi John, I listened to a message by you this morning, entitled, &#8220;Prepare to Die, to Live&#8221;, dated 4\/98. In it, you quoted Psalm 90:10-12: \u00a0 \u00a0 10. The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason or strength \u00a0 they be fourscore years, yet is their strength, labour and [&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-11139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11139"}],"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=11139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}