{"id":14886,"date":"2024-07-21T08:07:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T13:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=14886"},"modified":"2024-07-24T08:17:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T13:17:22","slug":"old-testament-study-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/14886\/old-testament-study-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Testament Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pastor John<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I wanted to share some good feelings I have had during my Old Testament study this week. (<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/gtj_otcourse-1010.html\">https:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/gtj_otcourse-1010.html<\/a><\/span>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0We read Psalm 119 to see how many times David used the words testament, precepts, judgments, and others as synonyms to the word &#8220;law&#8221;.\u00a0 I got to the place where I was looking for the word &#8220;word&#8221;,\u00a0and after reading several scriptures I heard,\u00a0&#8220;In the beginning was the Word.&#8221;\u00a0 Where I could, I started replacing &#8220;word&#8221; with Jesus.\u00a0 Here are just a few:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ps 119:42 So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word (Jesus).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ps. 119:74 They that fear thee will be glad when they see me because I have hoped in thy word (Jesus).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ps 119:160 Thy word (Jesus) is true from the beginning and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth forever.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This felt so good to me!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Also, while reading and listening to &#8220;The Introduction to the Law&#8221;, I came to the part where you mention Matthew 12:1-4 where Jesus talks about David eating the shewbread.\u00a0 I started tearing up with thankfulness that I know that story.\u00a0 Before you taught me the Old Testament back in 2002, the only Old Testament book I remember reading was Psalms.\u00a0\u00a0I knew nothing about these stories.\u00a0\u00a0But because you have taught me, I now know these stories when they are mentioned in the New Testament.\u00a0 Thank you!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Julie P.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Jesus said that if we do not believe Moses, we would not be able to believe him.\u00a0 But how can we believe Moses if we do not know what he said?\u00a0 It is a blessing to know the Old Testament.\u00a0 Learning it prepares us to hear from Jesus, and I am glad you are doing it!\u00a0 That is wisdom.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/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\/1816100131243954617\">https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1816100131243954617<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John I wanted to share some good feelings I have had during my Old Testament study this week. (https:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/gtj_otcourse-1010.html) \u00a0We read Psalm 119 to see how many times David used the words testament, precepts, judgments, and others as synonyms to the word &#8220;law&#8221;.\u00a0 I got to the place where I was looking for 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-14886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14886"}],"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=14886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14888,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14886\/revisions\/14888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}