{"id":13264,"date":"2022-09-11T13:14:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T13:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=13264"},"modified":"2022-09-11T13:14:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T13:14:07","slug":"peace-joy-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/13264\/peace-joy-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace, Joy, Love"},"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;\">I have a question.\u00a0 If a person doesn\u2019t have a Holy Spirit within them it means that he\/she can\u2019t experience peace, joy, love, and the fruit of the spirit.\u00a0 They are blind to that. Are all they can feel within them are hatred and all negative feelings?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I\u2019ve been thinking about this.\u00a0 A person who hasn\u2019t been baptized by the Holy Ghost can\u2019t live right. And they can\u2019t see the Kingdom of God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Leika<\/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>Hey Leika,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>They can feel human love, and human compassion, joy, peace, etc.\u00a0 But there are many stories in the Bible of people feeling those human feelings and sinning because of it (e.g., 1Kgs. 20:31\u201343).\u00a0 Only God\u2019s kind of love, God\u2019s peace, and mercy, etc., will keep us on the right track.\u00a0 With our own ways, we hurt people even as we are trying to help them. Walking in the Spirit, we do what is truly good for them, and are a real blessing to those around us. We must be led by the Spirit to do anything that is right and holy.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, I have a question.\u00a0 If a person doesn\u2019t have a Holy Spirit within them it means that he\/she can\u2019t experience peace, joy, love, and the fruit of the spirit.\u00a0 They are blind to that. Are all they can feel within them are hatred and all negative feelings? I\u2019ve been thinking about this.\u00a0 A [&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-13264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13264"}],"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=13264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}