{"id":16278,"date":"2026-09-05T09:37:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T14:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=16278"},"modified":"2026-09-08T09:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T14:40:11","slug":"life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/16278\/life\/","title":{"rendered":"Life!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is from your book, God Had a Son Before Mary Did&#8221;*:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>\u201cWe worship God acceptably only as we worship in life because the Son ministers only in life. He baptizes us with God\u2019s life; buries us in that life and raises us up with him into more life; and with the sharp sword of life, he circumcises our hearts from faith in form and purges our conscience from dead works to serve a living God. The Son washes our souls with God\u2018s life so that we may stand blameless in holiness before our God and Father. No ceremony can do that for us.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">*<\/span><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/gtj_books.html?tname=fands\">Going to Jesus.com &#8211; God Had A Son Before Mary Did<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, This is from your book, God Had a Son Before Mary Did&#8221;*: \u201cWe worship God acceptably only as we worship in life because the Son ministers only in life. He baptizes us with God\u2019s life; buries us in that life and raises us up with him into more life; and with the sharp [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16278"}],"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=16278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16279,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16278\/revisions\/16279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}