{"id":15335,"date":"2025-01-23T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15335"},"modified":"2025-01-27T09:05:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T14:05:33","slug":"jesus-hidden-in-a-good-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15335\/jesus-hidden-in-a-good-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Hidden in a Good Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I had the thought today that the religion of Christianity has kept Jesus hidden from this world\u2014in a good way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If the only people in all the world declaring to belong to Jesus were spirit-filled saints full of the power of God, it would bring the wrath of the world and all its strange spirits down on the saints of God quickly.\u00a0 But instead, the loudest voice has been Christianity, which has given evil people in this world little to worry about in the way of being an obstacle to their sin or rendering righteous judgment.\u00a0 Christianity&#8217;s voice has been much louder than the voice of holiness folk, and it has caused evil people in this world not to look too closely at holiness people as representatives of Jesus.\u00a0 That has kept God&#8217;s holy-ghost filled saints safe.\u00a0 And because the loudest voice is a divided and powerless institution, that has caused evil people in the world not to take Jesus too seriously, overall.\u00a0 So Christianity has fulfilled a very important purpose there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Is that right?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thank you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jerry<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Yes, it is.\u00a0\u00a0My father often said that Christianity functioned for God\u2019s saints the same way the Outer Banks of North Carolina, protecting the mainland from the harshness of the ocean\u2019s waves and storms.\u00a0\u00a0Christianity is there, claiming to represent Christ, but dealing with governments and cultures so that those governments and cultures don\u2019t come crashing down on us.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Comments welcome:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1883878738884165805\">https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1883878738884165805<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, I had the thought today that the religion of Christianity has kept Jesus hidden from this world\u2014in a good way. If the only people in all the world declaring to belong to Jesus were spirit-filled saints full of the power of God, it would bring the wrath of the world and all its [&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-15335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15335"}],"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=15335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15337,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15335\/revisions\/15337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}