{"id":1349,"date":"2010-10-28T02:01:42","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T02:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2010-10-28T02:01:42","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T02:01:42","slug":"the-bride-of-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/1349\/the-bride-of-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bride of Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/site\/php\/besetting.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">http:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/site\/php\/besetting.html<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The other day I was reading one of your tracts &#8220;The Besetting Sin&#8221;, on the last page it&#8217;s talking about the bride of Christ. It says the bride of christ is not the body of Christ as a whole, but only that part of the body that keeps itself pure. Does this mean a backslider cannot be the bride of Christ? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">God Bless,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"color:#333333;\">M<\/span>ichelle<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">=============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Good question, Michelle.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">The bride of Christ will be only that part of the body of Christ that is faithful to the Bridegroom and invited into the &#8220;marriage supper of the Lamb&#8221; at the end of the age. They are the ones whom Jesus called &#8220;wise virgins&#8221;. It is not wise to claim to be the bride of Christ, just as it is not wise to claim to be saved already. Jesus will decide all that when he comes.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Pastor John<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/site\/php\/besetting.html Pastor John, The other day I was reading one of your tracts &#8220;The Besetting Sin&#8221;, on the last page it&#8217;s talking about the bride of Christ. It says the bride of christ is not the body of Christ as a whole, but only that part of the body that keeps itself pure. Does this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349"}],"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=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}