{"id":12040,"date":"2021-05-05T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=12040"},"modified":"2021-05-05T14:57:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T14:57:00","slug":"leviticus-placating-aroma-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/12040\/leviticus-placating-aroma-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Leviticus &#8211; &#8220;Placating Aroma&#8221; Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">That answer does something to me.\u00a0 I read your reply and went back to look at Exodus.\u00a0 I want to read it all over again.\u00a0\u00a0My mind was filtering everything through the law being\u00a0a preparation\u00a0and merciful, God preparing hearts for the day His Son came to rescue us. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">A few times, it has hit me about God&#8217;s wrath, but I read right through most of it without really seeing wrath,\u00a0even the sufferings He sent for Israel building a golden calf.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">To have wrath and still show mercy!\u00a0 It is so hard to put those together in my mind.\u00a0\u00a0To know that God sent Jesus to save me from sin and yet, HATED the sins I was committing just makes the mercy so much deeper!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">It&#8217;s also scary to think of God&#8217;s wrath.\u00a0\u00a0Imagine the wrath you\u00a0might incur if you went back to your old filth after God called you out of it to be His.\u00a0 Yet, I have seen him rescue a\u00a0loved one with just such tender love and mercy.\u00a0 It is all just swirling around in my mind right now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Beth D.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That answer does something to me.\u00a0 I read your reply and went back to look at Exodus.\u00a0 I want to read it all over again.\u00a0\u00a0My mind was filtering everything through the law being\u00a0a preparation\u00a0and merciful, God preparing hearts for the day His Son came to rescue us. \u00a0 A few times, it has hit me [&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-12040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12040"}],"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=12040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}