{"id":2015,"date":"2011-11-26T22:21:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T22:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2011-11-26T22:21:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T22:21:39","slug":"the-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/2015\/the-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"the Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.pioneertract.com\/pearls\/nov24.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pioneertract.com\/pearls\/nov24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.pioneertract.com\/pearls\/nov24.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dear pastor John,<\/p>\n<p>Hi!<br \/>\nFor years I have been wondering about the prophets in the old testament, and the apostles when they were with Jesus, &#8216;did they have the holy ghost&#8217;, and I have been praying about it. I was going to write to you and ask you for your opinion, but today I found the answer in the Pearl for November 24. I&#8217;m so relieved I have the full understanding now. I wish I could thank your dad personally, but I&#8217;m going to thank you for holding on to what he taught, so thank you instead!<br \/>\nI have been enjoying being in touch with Brad, and Vince a bit, and some others on facebook. Especially, I am learning a lot from Brad on Skype. He has encouraged me a lot to keep going and stick close to Jesus.<br \/>\nBye for now,<br \/>\nRaad<br \/>\n==============<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hello Raad.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em> Thanks for writing.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em> No one received the Spirit before Jesus paid the price for it. John said &#8220;the holy ghost was not yet given because Jesus was not yet glorified&#8221; (Jn. 7:35). I am glad that you finally had your question answered. It is an important lesson to learn.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em> Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.pioneertract.com\/pearls\/nov24.pdf Dear pastor John, Hi! For years I have been wondering about the prophets in the old testament, and the apostles when they were with Jesus, &#8216;did they have the holy ghost&#8217;, and I have been praying about it. I was going to write to you and ask you for your opinion, but today I [&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-2015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015"}],"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=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}