{"id":12519,"date":"2021-11-19T01:26:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T01:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=12519"},"modified":"2021-11-19T01:26:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T01:26:00","slug":"who-sent-back-the-holy-ghost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/12519\/who-sent-back-the-holy-ghost\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Sent Back the Holy Ghost?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hi Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I have a question.\u00a0 After Jesus died, rose again, ascended to the Father, and made His sacrifice to the Father, that meant the holy Ghost could be sent to us.\u00a0 But, who sent it?\u00a0 Jesus or the Father?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thank you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Jenny<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Hi Jenny,\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Thanks for the question.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Jesus said this, in John 14:26:\u00a0&#8220;the comforter, the holy Spirit which\u00a0<u>the Father will send<\/u>\u00a0in my name&#8221;.\u00a0 And he also said, this in John 15:26: &#8220;when the Comforter comes, whom\u00a0<u>I will send<\/u>\u00a0to\u00a0you from the Father, the Spirit of truth which comes out from the Father\u2019&#8217;.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>So, the picture we get is that Jesus\u00a0obtained the Spirit from the Father for us, as well as permission to pass it on to us, which is what Peter said on the day of Pentecost, in Acts 2:33: &#8220;being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the holy Spirit, he [Jesus] has shed forth this which\u00a0you\u00a0yourselves now see and hear.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>The Father is the source of it all (Jesus said he himself came from the Father), but Jesus is the means by which the Father sends all things to us.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Thank you again for the question.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Pastor John, I have a question.\u00a0 After Jesus died, rose again, ascended to the Father, and made His sacrifice to the Father, that meant the holy Ghost could be sent to us.\u00a0 But, who sent it?\u00a0 Jesus or the Father? Thank you, Jenny ========== Hi Jenny,\u00a0 Thanks for the question. Jesus said this, in [&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-12519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12519"}],"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=12519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}