{"id":174,"date":"2008-11-01T22:15:44","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T02:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/Correspondence\/?p=174"},"modified":"2008-11-01T22:15:44","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T02:15:44","slug":"money-changers-in-the-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/174\/money-changers-in-the-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Money Changers in the Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Bro. John:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">From Jenny&#8217;s email:\u00a0 <em>&#8220;When I read this I thought how those with His spirit are His temple, so we must <span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">keep it clean,<\/span> and not let it become a dwelling place of all those things mentioned.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">It reminded me of what the Lord told me right after He cleansed and restored &#8220;my temple&#8221; in 2006.\u00a0 I remember the feeling of such peace that came after He touched me.\u00a0 I asked Him what that feeling was and He told me: <em>&#8220;That&#8217;s the feeling of a clean temple&#8221;.<\/em> Praise God!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Not many nights had passed after he had touched me,\u00a0that I awoke with instructions from the Spirit on how to keep my temple clean.\u00a0 I was amazed at the love that I felt from Jesus that he was still caring that I should know and understand how to stay clean and holy before him.\u00a0 As you said about the Law, this came as God&#8217;s kind of thinking and God&#8217;s kind of judgment.\u00a0 It was not a &#8220;suggestion&#8221; on how to live from now on.\u00a0 It was the Father&#8217;s thinking and it is the mind of Christ and his Father\u00a0right now <em>today<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong><em>11\/28\/06<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> \u201cSeven things to be careful of:\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong><em> Proverbs 6<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em><strong>These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong><em>1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A proud look <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em><strong>2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A lying tongue<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em><strong>3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hands that shed innocent blood<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong><em>4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em><strong>5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Feet that be swift in running to mischief<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong><em>6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A false witness that speaketh lies <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em><strong>7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He that soweth discord among brethren.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">We have a very good God.\u00a0 We are never without His instruction on how to live if our desire is a clean holy temple, but it always requires obedience to His will.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em><strong>My son, keep thy father&#8217;s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong><em><em>Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.<\/em><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong><em><em>When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.<\/em><\/em><strong> (I love this!)<\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong><em>For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Bro. John, the Law truly IS holy <span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">and<\/span> prophetic, for it will guide us our entire life in righteousness if we heed it.\u00a0\u00a0But just as in Proverbs 6, it warns us of the consequences if we do not listen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">We serve an amazing God who has given us a life filled with commandment and law and reproofs of instruction!\u00a0 Riches!\u00a0 My, my!\u00a0 \u00a0I feel right now what the Spirit woke me with this past week:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong><em>&#8220;Blessed be the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em>Sandy<\/em><em> \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bro. John: From Jenny&#8217;s email:\u00a0 &#8220;When I read this I thought how those with His spirit are His temple, so we must keep it clean, and not let it become a dwelling place of all those things mentioned.&#8221; It reminded me of what the Lord told me right after He cleansed and restored &#8220;my temple&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174"}],"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=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}