{"id":14382,"date":"2023-11-20T00:51:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T00:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=14382"},"modified":"2023-11-20T00:51:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T00:51:11","slug":"the-righteousness-of-god-message-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/14382\/the-righteousness-of-god-message-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0The Righteousness of God Message on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

PJ:<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you for your notes from your message Saturday night.\u00a0 I don’t know when I have felt such a pull in my heart to want more of\/from God.\u00a0 And I know it’s there if we want it.\u00a0 Reading your notes tonight, I just felt such a Presence of the Lord.\u00a0 As he once told me, “it is not hard-seeking, but heart-seeking” that lets Jesus into the chambers of our hearts that need more of him.\u00a0 Your message and notes meant so much to me tonight as I read them, that I just wanted to share some of the ones that really flooded me with feelings.\u00a0 Reading some of them even made me weep knowing how much God is calling to us to know him and his righteousness, and to know who he has made us.\u00a0 Thank you so much for being such a faithful servant for us and feeding us what God has given you.\u00a0 There are so many more feelings in my heart tonight from this message, but I have tried to keep it as brief as I could right now. This message makes it clear that God has given us what we need to live beyond this world and man’s righteousness.\u00a0 \u00a0Sandy\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Excerpts from your sobering and encouraging notes:<\/span><\/p>\n

The unborn infant is formed in the mother, but after it is born, the mother must be formed in the child, her knowledge and her abilities. So, we are formed in the womb of the body of Christ, as Christ convicts us, encourages us, and nourishes us until we come to the hour of birth.\u00a0And after the birth, Christ must be formed in us.<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

Any person who has received the Spirit of God is in a much better spiritual condition than John the Baptist because he is a new kind of creature, a creature that has a divine nature \u2013 God\u2019s \u2013 in a fleshly body. And that divine nature is filled with a divine kind of righteousness.<\/span><\/p>\n

When someone is born of God, God\u2077 shares His divine nature, His Spirit, with that person.\u00a0The holy Ghost is God\u2019s free gift to you, given because He wants you to know Him and be blessed.<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

Before Jesus paid the price for mankind to have God\u2019s nature, with its right thoughts and holy feelings, God put up with man\u2019s ignorance of Him.\u00a0But things changed with Jesus.<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

In this covenant, God is pleased \u2013\u2013 and well pleased \u2013\u2013 only when His children live as righteously as they can with His nature instead of their own.<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

God lives from the heart<\/u><\/strong>,<\/strong>\u00a0not by a set of rules. It is His nature to think right thoughts and to do good things.\u00a0And the entire reason God sent His Son to earth was to make the way for us to live that way, not being against rules; they are needed in this world, but being above rules, being ruled by the love and peace of God<\/u>.\u00a0That holy nature is in the Spirit, and Jesus paid the price for us to have it.<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

If we have been born of God and received His holy nature, we are in a far better spiritual state than Job, Abraham, or John the Baptist ever were. \u2013 if you want it. You can neglect that gift and retain your carnal mind. But if you do, you will never find out how much better a place you are in than anyone who lived before the Son came, like Job.<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

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Whew!\u00a0 We are so blessed!<\/span><\/p>\n

Sandy<\/span><\/p>\n

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PJ: Thank you for your notes from your message Saturday night.\u00a0 I don’t know when I have felt such a pull in my heart to want more of\/from God.\u00a0 And I know it’s there if we want it.\u00a0 Reading your notes tonight, I just felt such a Presence of the Lord.\u00a0 As he once told […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14382"}],"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=14382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}