{"id":15136,"date":"2024-10-29T10:33:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T15:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15136"},"modified":"2024-10-31T10:46:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T15:46:38","slug":"two-thoughts-from-the-father-and-son-reading-10-27-2024-section-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15136\/two-thoughts-from-the-father-and-son-reading-10-27-2024-section-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Thoughts from the Father and Son reading (10\/27\/2024) Section 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n

After you left our house tonight, I remembered a couple of things that stood out to me from\u00a0The Father and Son* <\/em>reading this Past Sunday night.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first part was from the\u00a0Just a Few<\/em>\u00a0section.\u00a0 \u00a0It said, \u201cSince nothing good dwells in us, as Paul said, it follows that if anyone feels guilt for doing wrong, it is never that he is convicted by his own conscience, for conviction for sin is good, and good is not in us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing good in us\u2026 what a thought!<\/span><\/p>\n

That led me to wonder what the difference\u00a0 is\u00a0between conviction and condemnation, as seen in 1 John 3:19-20: \u201cAnd by this, we know that we are of the truth, and we will assure our hearts before Him, for if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and He understands everything.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Is condemnation the opposite of justification?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Condemnation and conviction are parts of the same experience.\u00a0\u00a0Our hearts condemn us only when God convicts us of wrongdoing.\u00a0\u00a0Our hearts, on their own, cannot condemn us.\u00a0 God must first convict us.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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And if faith is having confidence that what I am doing is pleasing to God, then what would be the opposite of that\u2014the confidence that what I am doing is displeasing to God?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Such confidence is what faith is, and faith is the opposite of unbelief, which is refusing to believe the truth that God freely offers.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Also, in the\u00a0Finding Glory<\/em>\u00a0section, you said, \u201cMany of God\u2019s children who join a Christian church live unsatisfied lives, unfulfilled in Church religion, but thinking they are pleasing God, they go along with the program.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

That touched me because it is the absolute truth to me.\u00a0\u00a0In Christianity, I felt that hope-crushing \u00a0burden.\u00a0\u00a0I called that miserable feeling \u201ckeeping the faith\u201d or \u201cfighting the good fight.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Sure, I had some good times at church functions, but when I\u2019d get home, I\u2019d feel empty.\u00a0 I wanted the Holy Ghost; I wanted to know the truth of it all; I wanted to feel something real.\u00a0 And those neatly wrapped, feel-good sermons just couldn\u2019t hold water by the end of the day.\u00a0 I remember wondering if there was something wrong with me.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was relieved when I realized I was not \u201csaved\u201d and that my life didn\u2019t have to continue that way, and that there is so much more we can experience in God during this life.\u00a0\u00a0It felt like\u00a0not<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0being \u201csaved\u201d actually saved my life.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am so grateful Jesus rescued me from that tormenting lie.\u00a0 And I am very thankful he put me in your care with this wonderful body.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you!<\/span><\/p>\n

Johnny<\/span><\/p>\n

*\u00a0 Father and Son 24 PDF<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Tell us what you think:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hey Pastor John, After you left our house tonight, I remembered a couple of things that stood out to me from\u00a0The Father and Son* reading this Past Sunday night. The first part was from the\u00a0Just a Few\u00a0section.\u00a0 \u00a0It said, \u201cSince nothing good dwells in us, as Paul said, it follows that if anyone feels guilt […]<\/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-15136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15136"}],"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=15136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15140,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15136\/revisions\/15140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}