{"id":1828,"date":"2011-04-15T23:38:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T23:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=1828"},"modified":"2011-04-15T23:38:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T23:38:53","slug":"judas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/1828\/judas\/","title":{"rendered":"Judas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I have been reading the father and Son book. I was just wondering. Do you think that God forgave Judas for betraying Jesus? Is it possible that he could have done that? Thanks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">MG<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">===============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000080;\"><em>Judas? No. Jesus said it would have been better for Judas never to have been born.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000080;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">===============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thank u John. I figured Judas repented when he gave the money back, and so, maybe God forgave him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">MG<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">===============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000080;\"><em>God alone grants genuine repentance, and he always forgives those to whom He grants that repentance. A person can &#8220;repent&#8221; in the flesh as much as he can baptize in the flesh. And God rejects all self-willed worship. Judas&#8217; repentance was not of God; he just realized what a fool he had been. There was no mercy from God available for Judas.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000080;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">===============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I understand. Thanks again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">MG<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, I have been reading the father and Son book. I was just wondering. Do you think that God forgave Judas for betraying Jesus? Is it possible that he could have done that? Thanks. MG =============== Judas? No. Jesus said it would have been better for Judas never to have been born. Pastor John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828"}],"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=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}