{"id":285,"date":"2009-02-23T18:27:44","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T22:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/Correspondence\/?p=285"},"modified":"2009-02-23T18:27:44","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T22:27:44","slug":"the-real-target-of-slander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/285\/the-real-target-of-slander\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Target of Slander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Bro. John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I learned this, this morning, if I didn&#8217;t misunderstand it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I was standing in the kitchen, and I heard &#8220;Why does God care if He is slandered?&#8221;\u00a0 Then I looked up and immediately saw this verse on the fridge, on the calander\u00a0(Ps. 23:3):\u00a0 &#8220;He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name&#8217;s sake.&#8221;\u00a0 Then I continued to listen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">&#8220;Who is God? \u00a0What is His name?\u00a0 He is goodness.\u00a0 It is His goodness toward men that He doesn&#8217;t want slandered, not His power to rule,\u00a0or authority over men.\u00a0\u00a0He isn&#8217;t proud.\u00a0\u00a0He doesn&#8217;t\u00a0seek honor the way men seek honor from other humans.\u00a0\u00a0God poured all His authority out into His Son in the very beginning.\u00a0 He gave away what men covet most from the start.\u00a0 It is His goodness that He doesn&#8217;t want slandered, so that we may believe on His good name\u00a0and receive.\u00a0\u00a0Satan doesn&#8217;t care if\u00a0he himself\u00a0is lied about, because he is not good.\u00a0 He\u00a0just wants honor, any way that he can get it.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Jerry<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">============<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em> It certainly\u00a0was the case, Jerry, that God&#8217;s goodness was Satan&#8217;s target in the garden of Eden.\u00a0 I think you have something here.\u00a0 Thanks.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>jdc<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bro. John, I learned this, this morning, if I didn&#8217;t misunderstand it. I was standing in the kitchen, and I heard &#8220;Why does God care if He is slandered?&#8221;\u00a0 Then I looked up and immediately saw this verse on the fridge, on the calander\u00a0(Ps. 23:3):\u00a0 &#8220;He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His [&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-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285"}],"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=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}