{"id":13542,"date":"2023-01-07T15:13:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T15:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=13542"},"modified":"2023-01-07T15:13:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T15:13:35","slug":"testimony-about-sonship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/13542\/testimony-about-sonship\/","title":{"rendered":"Testimony about Sonship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Dear Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">I was looking for something online when I bumped into this video, and first I didn&#8217;t even want to spend time watching it, but I just had a feeling that I should. So I listened to the whole material, and it&#8217;s a very thorough, Bible-based study about why there is only one God, the Father; why Jesus is the Son of God, and why that&#8217;s important; and why the holy Spirit is not a separate individual, but the spirit of the Father and the Son, in fact, the Spirit is Christ himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">There are a couple of points where the speaker contradicts the truth, i.e. he thinks the OT prophets knew that God had a Son, he also believes that Jesus was already the Christ, when he was born in Bethlehem. But there was one point he made that really blessed me, and I&#8217;m not sure whatsoever, that he&#8217;s aware that he made a wonderful case for why speaking in tongues must happen every time a person is born again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">This is what he said (it starts at 19:21 in the video, and ends at 22:38): In the gospels there are three times when the Father audibly speaks from heaven. Two of these three times He declares that Jesus is His Son (first at Jesus&#8217; baptism and the second time on the &#8220;mount of transfiguration&#8221;). The speaker makes the point that Jesus being His Son was so important to the Father, that He didn&#8217;t send an angel or a prophet to declare it, even though He could have, but\u00a0did it himself, both times. Then he says this: Jesus being the Son is\u00a0<em>&#8220;so important, that God says, &#8216;This must not be entrusted with anyone, I will say it myself'&#8221;<\/em>. As I was hearing these words, I felt like the Spirit was telling me: &#8220;So is the case every time someone becomes a son.&#8221; It must be the Spirit giving the witness! As Paul said: &#8220;The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Here&#8217;s the video:<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6TpRpKi5N_o\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6TpRpKi5N_o<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 238px\" width=\"324\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td width=\"312\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6TpRpKi5N_o\">Truth About the Holy Spirit &#8211; MUST WATCH &#8211; Part 1<\/a><\/span>Who or what is the Holy Spirit? Is the Trinity doctrine Biblical? Find out the Bible truth in this great sermon. PART 2:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BSUonLc046Q\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BSUonLc046Q<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">www.youtube.com<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Zoli<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Pastor John, I was looking for something online when I bumped into this video, and first I didn&#8217;t even want to spend time watching it, but I just had a feeling that I should. So I listened to the whole material, and it&#8217;s a very thorough, Bible-based study about why there is only one [&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-13542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13542"}],"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=13542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}