{"id":3075,"date":"2013-04-01T22:26:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T22:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=3075"},"modified":"2013-04-01T22:26:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T22:26:27","slug":"living-by-doing-gods-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/3075\/living-by-doing-gods-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Living by doing God&#8217;s will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Mornin&#8217; Bro. John!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The section of the Father and Son book about the crucifixion of Jesus was so very good. It reminded me of what the Lord told me a few years ago: &#8220;<em>Even in dying, Jesus was <span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">living<\/span> because he was doing the will of His Father.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I really loved what you wrote, after quoting these verses form John 11:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">51. But this he did not say of himself, but being high priest at that time, he prophesied<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">that Jesus was about to die for the nation . . .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">53. So, from that day, they plotted to kill him.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">You wrote, &#8220;Satan and these elders of Israel all thought that Spirit was decreeing, through the high priest, that<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Jesus had to die in order to rescue the nation from the Romans. <strong>What the Spirit was actually decreeing<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#000000;\">was that Jesus had to die to rescue Israel from sin.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">It is just amazing to realize that men thought they were killing Jesus when all along it was God&#8217;s plan. God was never out of control over what happened to His Son, whether man saw or understood it at all. Nothing appeared as love in man&#8217;s eyes, but God was loving his Son and us the whole time. And still is. The Father and Son (and us) &#8211; &#8211; an amazing love story. Whew!<\/span><br \/>\n<em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Sandy<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mornin&#8217; Bro. John! The section of the Father and Son book about the crucifixion of Jesus was so very good. It reminded me of what the Lord told me a few years ago: &#8220;Even in dying, Jesus was living because he was doing the will of His Father.&#8221; I really loved what you wrote, after [&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-3075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075"}],"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=3075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}