{"id":12896,"date":"2022-03-18T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=12896"},"modified":"2022-03-18T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T15:01:00","slug":"i-john-418","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/12896\/i-john-418\/","title":{"rendered":"I John 4:18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I John 4:18 says, &#8220;There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, for fear has to do with punishment, and he who fears has not been perfected in love.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">What is \u201cperfect love\u201d and \u201cpunishment\u201d mean in the verse above?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Michelle\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">=========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Hi Michelle.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>We should understand that verse to read, &#8220;There is no fear in love [except the fear of God], but perfect love casts out fear [of anything but God], for fear [of anything\u00a0but God] has to do with [damnation], and he who fears [anything but God] has not been perfected in love.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Hope that helps.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, I John 4:18 says, &#8220;There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, for fear has to do with punishment, and he who fears has not been perfected in love.&#8221; What is \u201cperfect love\u201d and \u201cpunishment\u201d mean in the verse above?\u00a0 Michelle\u00a0 ========= Hi Michelle. We should understand that verse [&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-12896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12896"}],"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=12896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}