{"id":12245,"date":"2021-07-18T00:36:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T00:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=12245"},"modified":"2021-07-18T00:36:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T00:36:00","slug":"jesus-is-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/12245\/jesus-is-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus IS the Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Years ago when I would heard you say, &#8220;&#8230;the Truth is a Who, not a what!&#8221; I always understood that to be because a man \u2013 Jesus \u2013 embodied all the elements of the truth that God gave.\u00a0 I was still believing the truth was a WHAT&#8230;I just didn&#8217;t realize it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Then one day, like a light switch popping on, I\u00a0<em>felt\u00a0<\/em>the words you were saying and understood, GOD&#8217;S TRUTH IS JESUS.\u00a0 Not because Jesus represents God&#8217;s list of what is true, but because God created a Son and his name is Truth!\u00a0 He is Truth!\u00a0 Jesus doesn&#8217;t fulfill or represent anything in God&#8217;s creation.\u00a0 He is the beginning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">It reminds me of listening to an Old Testament teaching CD* one day and thinking, &#8220;What kind of man was Jesus, to be able to come and fulfill all of God&#8217;s Law!?&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0And the Spirit spoke to my heart and said, &#8220;Jesus wasn&#8217;t sent to fulfill the law, the law was sent to try to fulfill Jesus!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Jesus was the first of everything!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">So good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Jerry<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">*<\/span> <span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><a style=\"color:#0013a3;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/gtj_otcourse-1010.html\">Old Testament Course (Pt. 1) &#8211; Going to Jesus.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, Years ago when I would heard you say, &#8220;&#8230;the Truth is a Who, not a what!&#8221; I always understood that to be because a man \u2013 Jesus \u2013 embodied all the elements of the truth that God gave.\u00a0 I was still believing the truth was a WHAT&#8230;I just didn&#8217;t realize it. Then one [&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-12245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12245"}],"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=12245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}