{"id":14832,"date":"2024-07-05T19:12:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T00:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=14832"},"modified":"2024-07-05T19:18:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T00:18:36","slug":"young-paul-a-son-of-the-accuser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/14832\/young-paul-a-son-of-the-accuser\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Paul, a Son of the Accuser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hi, John.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In re-reading the opening paragraph of Wednesday night\u2019s reading (7\/3\/2024), the phrase stating that Satan was \u201ca stern and obedient servant\u201d of God made me think of Paul (Saul) before his conversion on the road to Damascus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Saul was a\u00a0son of the Accuser during his persecution of followers of Jesus.\u00a0\u00a0He obediently followed the orders of the\u00a0priests and\u00a0Pharisees who \u201cbelieved themselves to be acting on God\u2019s behalf.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As you pointed\u00a0out, \u201cWhen tares occupy positions of authority over God\u2019s people, they often reflect the merciless spirit of Satan.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Young Paul\u00a0was like that.\u00a0\u00a0He\u00a0also believed that God would\u00a0not\u00a0treat him the way he treated followers of Jesus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As you point out in your new paragraph, a new birth is required to change.\u00a0\u00a0The new birth is required to even have a chance to not be a tare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Allison\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/FS-Reading-for-Tonight-PDF.pdf\">F&amp;S Reading for Tonight PDF<\/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\/1809381142501491164\">https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1809381142501491164<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, John. In re-reading the opening paragraph of Wednesday night\u2019s reading (7\/3\/2024), the phrase stating that Satan was \u201ca stern and obedient servant\u201d of God made me think of Paul (Saul) before his conversion on the road to Damascus. Saul was a\u00a0son of the Accuser during his persecution of followers of Jesus.\u00a0\u00a0He obediently followed the [&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-14832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14832"}],"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=14832"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14836,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14832\/revisions\/14836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}