{"id":14760,"date":"2024-06-08T06:09:54","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T11:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=14760"},"modified":"2024-06-10T07:02:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T12:02:55","slug":"old-testament-class-a-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/14760\/old-testament-class-a-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Testament Class, a Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wendy\u2019s reply reminded me of what we always asked our kids when they come back from spending time with people. We\u2019d ask if they had a good time and then we\u2019d ask \u201cmore importantly how did \u201cso and so\u201d enjoy you?\u201d\u2026 that was what was the most important question. It wasn\u2019t about the kids. I loved that, Wendy!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ashley<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hi Pastor John,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">One piece of the first class that stood out to me today that you said from the Old Testament audio*, \u201cWe weren\u2019t made for our pleasure, we were made for God\u2019s pleasure. It\u2019s not about us enjoying God, but is God enjoying YOU?!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He made us because he wanted us, out of all the other things he could have created, he created US. He doesn\u2019t want to be alone in Heaven in the end, he wanted us to be there! With him now through the new covenant from Jesus\u2019 accepted sacrifice\u2026AND forever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You want to find more adjectives to describe the magnificence of it!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wendy<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Hi Wendy!<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>I am so glad you caught that. It is a good reminder of our purpose, and our responsibility to God and to one another.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Pastor John<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>*<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/gtj_otcourse-1010.html\">Old Testament Course (Pt. 1) &#8211; Going to Jesus.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tell us what you think:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1800136285656653929\">https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1800136285656653929<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy\u2019s reply reminded me of what we always asked our kids when they come back from spending time with people. We\u2019d ask if they had a good time and then we\u2019d ask \u201cmore importantly how did \u201cso and so\u201d enjoy you?\u201d\u2026 that was what was the most important question. It wasn\u2019t about the kids. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14760"}],"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=14760"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14762,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14760\/revisions\/14762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}