{"id":16250,"date":"2026-08-11T10:56:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T15:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=16250"},"modified":"2026-08-16T10:59:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T15:59:21","slug":"the-spirit-vs-the-flesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/16250\/the-spirit-vs-the-flesh\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spirit vs. the Flesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Read this tonight. It is from the Thought for the Morning 8\/10, \u201cHating God.\u201d* The only way is to worship in spirit and in truth!\u00a0 Any form of worship that man comes up with is hating God!\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;There is no man who does not hate God unless the holy Spirit of God has come into him, no matter what that man says or thinks.\u00a0 By nature, every man hates God.\u00a0 This is the truth behind the fact that every way of worship man has devised is sinful. How can any way of worship that man invents honor a God that he by nature hates?\u00a0 We need the holy Ghost to lead us in everything; it alone knows \u201cthe deep things of God.&#8221;\u00a0 The holy Ghost is an absolute necessity for salvation.\u00a0 Without the holy Ghost, man is led by his own flesh, and when the flesh leads a man, his actions, even his religious ones, reflect hatred of God instead of submission to Him.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Carrie<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Hi Carrie.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>That is what I believe. Without the Spirit, we have no choice but to be led by the flesh, and Paul said that the flesh is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit is contrary to the flesh (Gal. 5:17).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>*<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/gtj_thoughts.html?tname=tfm08-10\">https:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/gtj_thoughts.html?tname=tfm08-10<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read this tonight. It is from the Thought for the Morning 8\/10, \u201cHating God.\u201d* The only way is to worship in spirit and in truth!\u00a0 Any form of worship that man comes up with is hating God!\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;There is no man who does not hate God unless the holy Spirit of God has come into [&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-16250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16250"}],"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=16250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16251,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16250\/revisions\/16251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}