{"id":16108,"date":"2026-04-08T19:35:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=16108"},"modified":"2026-04-10T19:36:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:36:42","slug":"living-in-the-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/16108\/living-in-the-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in the Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Good morning Pastor John,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I was listening to a fireside chats from December today and heard something I have missed until today.\u00a0 The people caught a man gathering sticks on a Sabbath.\u00a0 \u00a0Not knowing what to do with him they brought him to Moses who went to the Lord for guidance.\u00a0 The Lord said for all the people to stone him with stones.\u00a0 I believe there is a big lesson in this story.\u00a0 Just because we may not have been told not to do something we are supposed to feel what is right in the sight of the Lord and do that.\u00a0 The people had not been told not to do that explicitly yet he was stoned.\u00a0 He should have been able to know not to do that from the law he did know.\u00a0 With us having His Spirit how much more we are expected to know what is right in the eyes of the Lord.\u00a0 It is a fearful thing when hearing this story.\u00a0 But the other side is so much joy in His Spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I just wanted to share that while I remembered it.\u00a0 Now back to the pumps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mark W.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning Pastor John,\u00a0 I was listening to a fireside chats from December today and heard something I have missed until today.\u00a0 The people caught a man gathering sticks on a Sabbath.\u00a0 \u00a0Not knowing what to do with him they brought him to Moses who went to the Lord for guidance.\u00a0 The Lord said for [&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-16108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16108"}],"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=16108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16109,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16108\/revisions\/16109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}