{"id":12825,"date":"2022-02-22T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=12825"},"modified":"2022-02-22T21:15:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T21:15:00","slug":"a-matter-of-the-heart-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/12825\/a-matter-of-the-heart-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Matter of the Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">You wrote in the book,\u00a0<em>God Had a Son before Mary Did*<\/em>, &#8220;Adam and Eve were not made sinful by eating the forbidden fruit and obtaining \u2018the knowledge of good and evil\u2019 (Gen. 2:16\u201317; 3:6\u20137, 22). They ate the fruit and obtained that knowledge because they had already become sinful. Sin is a matter of the heart, and their choice to disobey God was the sin.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">That makes me think of Judas.\u00a0 What difference did it make to God if Judas returned the 30 pieces of silver?\u00a0 It was a matter of the heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Wow!\u00a0 What a thought!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">&#8220;Children, in their innocence, are in some measure clean before God. Jesus even said that we must become like innocent children if we hope to ever see God\u2019s kingdom (Mt.\u00a018:1\u20133). But when young children in Israel came of age and learned from the law what sin was, they realized their guiltiness before God and \u201cdied\u201d to their innocence. Paul described how this happened to him:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Romans 7<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">9.I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">10.And then, the very commandment that\u00a0<em>was ordained<\/em>\u00a0for life was found by me\u00a0<em>to be<\/em>\u00a0for death.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Beth D.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">* <span style=\"color:#3366ff;\"><a style=\"color:#3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/gtj_books.html?tname=fands\">Going to Jesus.com &#8211; God Had A Son Before Mary Did<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, You wrote in the book,\u00a0God Had a Son before Mary Did*, &#8220;Adam and Eve were not made sinful by eating the forbidden fruit and obtaining \u2018the knowledge of good and evil\u2019 (Gen. 2:16\u201317; 3:6\u20137, 22). They ate the fruit and obtained that knowledge because they had already become sinful. Sin is a matter [&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-12825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12825"}],"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=12825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}