{"id":15896,"date":"2025-08-07T16:01:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T21:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15896"},"modified":"2025-08-10T16:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T21:03:11","slug":"morning-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15896\/morning-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hi Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I really enjoyed Damien\u2019s knowledge transfer of what Jesus showed him about the sacrifice on the Day of Atonements.\u00a0(See related links below.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As I was thinking about some questions related to it, I was listening to our music play in the background this morning.\u00a0 I realized our recent song lyrics are all about Jesus.\u00a0 The Spirit started showing me the type of humility God had in order to watch His own Son Jesus suffer and die.\u00a0 If he had been an earthly father, he would done everything to stop what Jesus was going through.\u00a0 He was showing us what a heavenly Father would do!\u00a0 But also, when God accepted Jesus\u2019 sacrifice, God was\u00a0<em>entrusting<\/em>\u00a0Jesus with His kind of power.\u00a0 Jesus had paid the price and was rewarded by God with that position in heaven, to be our High Priest, because he had proven he could be entrusted with it by overcoming the world with God\u2019s kind of life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">By design, and from the beginning of all things, Jesus\u2019 plan all along was to transfer that trust to us as his children through the Spirit. If we feel that trust, the love and fear of God can flow freely through us to actively live and respect this kind of heavenly life we\u2019ve been given.\u00a0 It\u2019s like Aunt Sue said, \u201cWe are the chosen of the chosen!\u201d Jesus is very serious (and seriously, deeply happy to the heavenliest degree) when we live that truth through walking in the Spirit he died for us to have!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wendy<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/gtj_books.html?tname=light\">Going to Jesus.com &#8211; Spiritual Light<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/gtj_tracts.html?tname=tract-079-sacrificeofchrist\">Going to Jesus.com Tracts &#8211; The Sacrifice of Christ<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Pastor John, I really enjoyed Damien\u2019s knowledge transfer of what Jesus showed him about the sacrifice on the Day of Atonements.\u00a0(See related links below.) As I was thinking about some questions related to it, I was listening to our music play in the background this morning.\u00a0 I realized our recent song lyrics are all [&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-15896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15896"}],"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=15896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15897,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15896\/revisions\/15897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}