{"id":13354,"date":"2022-10-20T13:38:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T13:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=13354"},"modified":"2022-10-20T13:38:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T13:38:43","slug":"malice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/13354\/malice\/","title":{"rendered":"Malice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I was thinking tonight of the feelings we have here in the body and the feelings of some who have drifted away from the Lord.\u00a0 The word malice kept coming to my mind, so I searched it on the bible app to see what the scriptures say about malice.\u00a0 This is what came up, and it struck me that we do not have these feelings here.\u00a0 We do not have bitterness, wrath, anger, rage, slander, filthy talk or evil speaking, deceit, hypocrisy, or envy by any heart that is following Jesus and staying full of the holy ghost. Those feelings do not live among us towards each other, the world, or even any of God&#8217;s children who have left Him. We are\u00a0<strong><em>free<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0from those feelings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">We have feelings of sadness, mercy, prayer, hurt, and maybe frustration, too, but only because we know what others could be with Jesus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">It touched me tonight to go over some of what we are free from.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Here is the definition I found of malice and the scriptures that came up in my search:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>malice<\/strong>\u00a0m\u0103l\u2032\u012ds<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">noun<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">A desire to harm others or to see others suffer; extreme ill will or spite.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The intent to commit an unlawful act without justification or excuse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">An improper motive for an action, such as desire to cause injury to another.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong><em>1Co 5:8\u00a0so that we might keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with leaven of\u00a0malice\u00a0and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong><em>Amen!\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Eph 4:31\u00a0Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil-speaking be put away from\u00a0<em>y<\/em>ou, with all\u00a0malice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Col 3:8\u00a0And put away all these things as well: anger, rage,\u00a0malice, slander, filthy talk from\u00a0<em>y<\/em>our mouth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">1Pe 2:1\u00b6\u00a0Therefore, having put away all\u00a0malice, and all deceit, and hypocrisy, and envy, and all evil speaking<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Beth D.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking tonight of the feelings we have here in the body and the feelings of some who have drifted away from the Lord.\u00a0 The word malice kept coming to my mind, so I searched it on the bible app to see what the scriptures say about malice.\u00a0 This is what came up, and [&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-13354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13354"}],"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=13354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}