{"id":14698,"date":"2024-05-03T15:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=14698"},"modified":"2024-05-06T18:03:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T23:03:29","slug":"the-law-and-perfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/14698\/the-law-and-perfection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Law and Perfection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey sir how you doing tonight? sorry it took me so long to write you.\u00a0 I am a friend of Margo, and she sent me your email to personally ask any questions i have based on the HOLY GHOST and HIS word. while i was reading todays thought of the day, which was: Thought For The Morning 05-02 Keeping the Law, Part 1.*\u00a0 If god is perfect in every way possible and teaches how to be of perfection, then why would he create laws that could not keep us, is it to test our faith and see how we handle temptation and worldly behavior, or am i looking at it from the wrong perspective. I hope you have a wonderful rest of your night and stay blessed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Alex\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hello Alex.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you for writing.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Everything God does has purpose, and the purpose for the law He gave to Israel was to prepare Israel for the Messiah that He would send them, His Son Jesus.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The prophets prophesied with words, but the law was prophecy in activities such as sacrifices, holy days, holy places, religious clothing, etc.\u00a0 We would have had no way to understand what Jesus did for us without God providing us the concept\u00a0of sacrifice, priesthood, etc.\u00a0 All those\u00a0things spoke of Jesus.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The law God\u00a0gave Moses could make no one perfect because nothing but the holy Ghost can do that.\u00a0 But as Paul said to the Galatians, if there were such a thing as a law that could make people perfect, it would have been the\u00a0law of Moses (Gal. 3:21).\u00a0 The Son is so great that the law was holy, just for telling of his coming.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you again for writing.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

* Going to Jesus.com – Keeping the Law, Part 1<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Hey sir how you doing tonight? sorry it took me so long to write you.\u00a0 I am a friend of Margo, and she sent me your email to personally ask any questions i have based on the HOLY GHOST and HIS word. while i was reading todays thought of the day, which was: Thought For […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14698"}],"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=14698"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14704,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14698\/revisions\/14704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}