{"id":12706,"date":"2022-01-22T01:10:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T01:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=12706"},"modified":"2022-01-22T01:10:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T01:10:05","slug":"talents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/12706\/talents\/","title":{"rendered":"Talents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n

Wednesday night\u2019s message and songs were so good. I loved all of it! I have been re-watching the meeting and trying to take in all the goodness. What you said last night about the parable in Matthew 25:14-30 reminded me of the \u201cPearl of Wisdom\u201d from October 23, 2021*.\u00a0 Preacher Clark said,<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cJesus told a parable about a rich man entrusting some of his servants with money, called \u2018talents\u2019. Everyone has at least one talent, one gift. He gives you one to start with, and you\u2019d better have at least two talents when he returns if you want to be saved.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

I remember reading that and thinking, \u201cWhat, is a talent and do I have at least two?\u201d The next day, I found the answer to my question in the \u201cThought for the Evening ,10-24\u201d titled \u201cThe Word of Their Testimony\u201d!** In this you wrote,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere are two essentials to overcoming the Devil, and John told us what they are when he wrote, “they overcame him through the blood of the Lamb and through the word of their testimony.<\/em>” Satan has beguiled the whole world, as John noted in the verses above, and without these two essentials of spiritual life, we cannot hope to escape the suffocating spiritual darkness that covers mankind.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

You explain that the\u00a0blood of the Lamb<\/em>\u00a0is the holy Ghost and that the\u00a0word of their testimony\u00a0<\/em>is confessing Christ and what he has done, by doing that we can overcome the world. You summed it up by saying, “Don’t be found at the coming of the Lord with a testimony never told. You do not want to be condemned by the Lord for hiding the talent he gave you and then offering it, unused, to him when he returns.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Last night you said that in the end the only thing the unprofitable servant in the parable had was the holy Ghost (that one talent\/gift he was given) but he never grew in grace and knowledge (he hid his talent, he didn\u2019t tell his testimony). You told us, \u201cUse what Jesus gave you. You want to testify to what he\u2019s done, it might bear fruit and you might not show up empty handed! But you will show up empty handed if you never use it!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

That was just so good to me I wanted to share \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n

Amy F.<\/span><\/p>\n

* https:\/\/pjhpearls.blogspot.com<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

** https:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/gtj_thoughts.html?tname=tfe10-24<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey Pastor John, Wednesday night\u2019s message and songs were so good. I loved all of it! I have been re-watching the meeting and trying to take in all the goodness. What you said last night about the parable in Matthew 25:14-30 reminded me of the \u201cPearl of Wisdom\u201d from October 23, 2021*.\u00a0 Preacher Clark said, […]<\/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-12706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12706"}],"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=12706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}