{"id":2151,"date":"2012-02-02T04:55:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T04:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2012-02-02T04:55:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T04:55:25","slug":"last-night-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/2151\/last-night-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Last night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hi, Pastor John:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Last night was so good. You were talking about how vain man is, and right before the meeting, I had heard a man on TV say of a sinner who had died, &#8220;At least he didn&#8217;t die in vain.&#8221; But that is exactly what that man did! He died in vain. What that man was saying was, &#8220;I&#8217;ll pick up his work from here, and die in vain, too&#8221; because, vain x vain = vain squared.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">It is so sad, to watch someone, especially a young athlete, or actor, spend his or her whole life giving themselves to vanity (games and play-acting), patting themselves on the back, and giving each other awards for the ability that God gave them in the first place, and never repenting. But &#8220;God knows them that are his.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The saints of God have not missed a thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I feel so thankful and blessed this morning. Like Darren&#8217;s song says, &#8220;We&#8217;re not hopeless, we&#8217;re not helpless anymore&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I like this equation: Vanity (us) + hope (Jesus) = being loved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I hope \ud83d\ude42 , to see everyone this weekend!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">billy<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, Pastor John: Last night was so good. You were talking about how vain man is, and right before the meeting, I had heard a man on TV say of a sinner who had died, &#8220;At least he didn&#8217;t die in vain.&#8221; But that is exactly what that man did! He died in vain. What [&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-2151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151"}],"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=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}