{"id":14400,"date":"2023-11-22T15:16:39","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T15:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=14400"},"modified":"2023-11-22T15:16:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T15:16:39","slug":"ephesians-319","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/14400\/ephesians-319\/","title":{"rendered":"Ephesians 3:19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">When reading thru your Job notes, I just wondered if I am getting the point on the phrase\u00a0\u201clove of Christ, which surpasses knowledge\u201d in the sentence\u00a0below.\u00a0\u00a0Can you expound on the phrase,\u201d love surpasses knowledge\u201d?\u00a0\u00a0Here it is.\u00a0\u00a0Paul said, \u201cand to know the love of Christ, which surpasses knowledge, so that\u00a0you might be filled with all the fullness of God.\u201d<\/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: #0000ff\"><em>Hi Wendell.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em>It\u2019s simple, really.\u00a0\u00a0Paul is just saying that the love of God is better than knowledge about God.\u00a0\u00a0I would say that the whole point of learning about God is to be able to walk in His love.\u00a0\u00a0It might even be said that to walk in God\u2019s love is to truly know Him.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em>Uncle Joe once testified in a meeting that he didn\u2019t want to know more than he could love.\u00a0\u00a0That is a good prayer.\u00a0\u00a0Whatever we know, it is what people feel from us that means the most.\u00a0\u00a0Jesus said that all men would know that we were his disciples by the love we have, one to another, not by the amount of information we have about God.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em>God help us be known by that love!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John, When reading thru your Job notes, I just wondered if I am getting the point on the phrase\u00a0\u201clove of Christ, which surpasses knowledge\u201d in the sentence\u00a0below.\u00a0\u00a0Can you expound on the phrase,\u201d love surpasses knowledge\u201d?\u00a0\u00a0Here it is.\u00a0\u00a0Paul said, \u201cand to know the love of Christ, which surpasses knowledge, so that\u00a0you might be filled with all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14400"}],"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=14400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}