{"id":15602,"date":"2025-04-25T11:12:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T16:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15602"},"modified":"2025-04-26T11:41:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T16:41:06","slug":"blog-fulfilled-responses-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15602\/blog-fulfilled-responses-continued\/","title":{"rendered":"blog, &#8220;Fulfilled&#8221; responses continued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Fulfilled.pdf\">Fulfilled <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Click on the above link to review the blog, &#8220;Fulfilled&#8221;. See previous\u00a0 post &#8220;blog Fulfilled&#8221; for additional responses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Reading this makes me wonder, then, how it was acceptable for any Jew who received the holy Ghost baptism to continue in Moses\u2019 Law.\u00a0\u00a0I always understood the reason to be that it was acceptable because for a time, tactically speaking, it was easier to spread the gospel amongst the Jews when early converts did not have to convince them also of Jesus&#8217; fulfillment of Moses Law.\u00a0\u00a0However the point you make in this blog, especially the point that \u201chis fulfilling the law proved beyond all question that the law was from God,\u201d to me at least, feels that permitting Jews to continue living by the Law is a denial of Jesus&#8217;s fulfillment of it.\u00a0\u00a0It feels to me a bigger deal than, for example, believing in the Trinity while honoring Jesus as King of Kings and Lord of Lords.\u00a0\u00a0Seems to fall more into the essential bucket to me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Michael D.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Thanks for the thoughts, Michael.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>God was very gentle and patient with His beloved nation of Israel, granting them some time to adjust to the great change from the Old Testament church(temple)-based religion to the New Testament\u2019s Spirit-based religion.\u00a0\u00a0I can see your point, that to continue in a church-based religion after the Spirit came denied that Christ had fulfilled the law, and that is undeniably true.\u00a0\u00a0But God.\u00a0\u00a0He is so tender when it comes to human hearts, and He knew how hard it would be for the Jews to make an immediate, clean break with the past, principally because they KNEW that God commanded Israel to obey the law or be damned.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>You see the spiritual weakness of ancient Jewish believers who were unable to leave the law behind and worship God only \u201cin Spirit and in truth.\u00a0\u00a0But there are similar instances in the Old Testament of God showing unlawful mercy and great forbearance, such as the following:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>God did not condemn David and his desperate men when they ate the bread which the law allowed no one but God\u2019s priests to eat.<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>God did not have David executed after his murder of Uriah and adultery with Bathsheba, even though the law demanded no mercy be shown in such cases.<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Naaman the Syrian general was permitted by God to kneel in a heathen temple whenever the Syrian king required him to.<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>God forgave the Israelites who ignorantly disobeyed the law when they failed to prepare for the Passover feast that King Hezekiah had prepared.\u00a0\u00a0In fact, instead of punishing them, God even healed them.<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>So, yes, it is a reproach to God\u2019s Son for believers to continue worshipping in ceremonies as if the Son had never come to earth and suffered and died to provide the Spirit and purge our conscience from dead works.\u00a0\u00a0But God is very patient.\u00a0\u00a0He gives people time to grow in grace and to grow in the knowledge of the truth.\u00a0\u00a0As David said, \u201cHe has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor has he recompensed us according to our iniquities.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>After God poured out His Spirit on the Jews in Acts 2, He gave Jewish believers several years to grow in the Spirit.\u00a0\u00a0Then, He raised up Paul and anointed him to fully explain what the Son had accomplished and to declare that the Son\u2019s glory so far exceeded the law that the law had no more glory at all, and no more purpose.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>I am thankful that we understand that, Michael.\u00a0\u00a0It is a gift to us from our heavenly Father.\u00a0\u00a0As Paul said, \u201cThanks be to God for His unspeakable gift!\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>May God help us walk worthy of His wonderful Son.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is good!\u00a0 I now have a better understanding of what it means that Jesus fulfilled the Law.\u00a0 So thankful Jesus has opened the eyes of our hearts to see these things.\u00a0 On the way to Savannah yesterday, the glory of God filled my car, and I was overwhelmed with thankfulness for what He has shown us.\u00a0 I said out loud, \u201cI love the fellowship I have with Paul!\u201d \u00a0While I may not completely understand everything Paul writes, we share the same feelings, and I know his gospel is the Truth.\u00a0 I want that fellowship with all of God\u2019s children!\u00a0 Blogs like this one are the perfect antidote for the poison that\u2019s being fed to them in Christianity.\u00a0 I hope someone who reads this will begin to question what they\u2019ve always been taught and begin to seek the truth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lee Ann<\/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\/1916170352830358005\">https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1916170352830358005<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fulfilled Click on the above link to review the blog, &#8220;Fulfilled&#8221;. See previous\u00a0 post &#8220;blog Fulfilled&#8221; for additional responses. Pastor John, Reading this makes me wonder, then, how it was acceptable for any Jew who received the holy Ghost baptism to continue in Moses\u2019 Law.\u00a0\u00a0I always understood the reason to be that it was acceptable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15602"}],"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=15602"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15612,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15602\/revisions\/15612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}