{"id":15141,"date":"2024-10-29T10:50:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T15:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15141"},"modified":"2024-10-31T10:56:32","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T15:56:32","slug":"question-about-the-levitical-law-found-in-john-1525","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15141\/question-about-the-levitical-law-found-in-john-1525\/","title":{"rendered":"Question about the Levitical Law found in John 15:25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Good Evening,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I am just trying to be sure I am thinking about this correctly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">John 15:25 says, \u201cBut\u00a0this happened\u00a0so that the saying\u00a0written in their law<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>might be fulfilled, \u2018They hated me for no reason.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I found\u00a0\u00a0the quote above twice in the book of Psalms, but for \u201ctheir Law\u201d was John referring to this Levitical law: \u201cYou shall not hate your brother in your heart; you shall plainly reprove your fellow, lest you bear sin because of him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thanks,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wendell<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Hi Wendell.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>John was correct to quote that verse in Psalms and say that it is in the law.\u00a0\u00a0Any scripture from any of the Old Testament books may be referred to as coming from the law.\u00a0 In 1Corinthians 14:21,\u00a0Paul quoted Isaiah 28 and says that verse was from the law.\u00a0\u00a0In John 10:34, Jesus quoted Psalm 110 and said that verse was from the law.\u00a0\u00a0So, whether a scripture is found in the history books (Genesis\u2013Esther), the wisdom books (Job\u2013Song of Solomon), or the prophecy books (Isaiah\u2013Malachi), it is considered to be from the law.\u00a0\u00a0<\/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\/1852016574825148449\">https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1852016574825148449<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John, Good Evening, I am just trying to be sure I am thinking about this correctly. John 15:25 says, \u201cBut\u00a0this happened\u00a0so that the saying\u00a0written in their law\u00a0might be fulfilled, \u2018They hated me for no reason.\u2019\u201d I found\u00a0\u00a0the quote above twice in the book of Psalms, but for \u201ctheir Law\u201d was John referring to this Levitical [&hellip;]<\/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-15141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15141"}],"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=15141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15143,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15141\/revisions\/15143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}