{"id":14132,"date":"2023-08-28T00:41:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T00:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=14132"},"modified":"2023-08-28T00:41:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T00:41:25","slug":"1-kings-the-sin-of-jeroboam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/14132\/1-kings-the-sin-of-jeroboam\/","title":{"rendered":"1 Kings &#8220;The Sin of Jeroboam&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Good morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">I am reading in 1Kings this morning about Jeroboam making those two golden calves for Israel to worship. Barbara mentioned at a meeting recently how it stood out to her, how the end result of all that is Christianity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">It is standing out to me this morning too.\u00a0 &#8220;Any way but God&#8217;s way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">It is something to read this and put it together with the fact that every bit of Christianity is a lie. It was never of Jesus at all.\u00a0 What a mess!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">God had sent Rehoboam the right answer through the old, established men that had been with his father, but his heart followed the advice it wanted.\u00a0 And so, God gave him and Israel what they wanted.\u00a0 That is terrifying.\u00a0 Leaves me praying for Jesus to give me a pure heart, pure and pliable in His hands.\u00a0 If going through things burns out anything that would keep me from God, then it is worth it to go through trials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">I don&#8217;t want anything in my heart like that!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">And golden calves, figuratively, are here AGAIN!\u00a0 Surely, those people, and modern believers, remember what happened the last time someone made a golden calf.\u00a0 The taste has left their tongues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Beth D.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. I am reading in 1Kings this morning about Jeroboam making those two golden calves for Israel to worship. Barbara mentioned at a meeting recently how it stood out to her, how the end result of all that is Christianity. It is standing out to me this morning too.\u00a0 &#8220;Any way but God&#8217;s way.\u201d [&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-14132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14132"}],"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=14132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}