{"id":13412,"date":"2022-11-12T18:59:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T18:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=13412"},"modified":"2022-11-12T18:59:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T18:59:02","slug":"sacrificing-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/13412\/sacrificing-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacrificing Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">It has always been hard to even read the parts of the Old Testament which speak of babies being sacrificed to Baal.\u00a0 In reading about that this morning, I wondered if a correlation could be drawn between sacrificing children to Baal and spiritually new-born &#8220;babes in Christ&#8221; being killed in the spirit with the false doctrines in Christianity?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Wendell<\/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>Absolutely!\u00a0 In fact, there have been many more new-borns in Christ sacrificed on the altars of Christian sects than there were children offered to Baal and Molech in the Old Testament.\u00a0 How it must hurt the heart of God!\u00a0 The feelings He expressed when Israel sacrificed their children are no doubt magnified now:\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>&#8220;They have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not\u00a0command, and did not speak, nor did it come into my mind!&#8221; (Jer. 19:5).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><em><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\">&#8220;You took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to [heathen gods], to be eaten!\u00a0\u00a0Was your fornication a small thing,\u00a0that you slaughtered my children and gave them up, making them to pass over\u00a0the fire\u00a0for them?&#8221; (Ezek. 16:2021).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Yes, Wendell, there is a correlation between the Old Testament sacrifice of children and the New Testament form of it.\u00a0 Peter touches on it in 2Peter 2:18\u201319, when he describes ministers who are successful in the eyes of men, but who are not sent by God: &#8220;Making pretentious, vain speeches [eloquent sermons], they entice . . . those who once had truly escaped from those who live in error,\u00a0promising them liberty, themselves being servants of corruption in.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Thanks for the question.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John, It has always been hard to even read the parts of the Old Testament which speak of babies being sacrificed to Baal.\u00a0 In reading about that this morning, I wondered if a correlation could be drawn between sacrificing children to Baal and spiritually new-born &#8220;babes in Christ&#8221; being killed in the spirit with the [&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-13412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13412"}],"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=13412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}