{"id":323,"date":"2009-03-16T09:27:13","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T13:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/Correspondence\/?p=323"},"modified":"2009-03-16T09:27:13","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T13:27:13","slug":"ceremonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/323\/ceremonies\/","title":{"rendered":"Ceremonies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bro. John:<\/span><\/p>\n

When I read Vince’s reply to the excerpt from your book,\u00a0Jesus reminded me of\u00a0what\u00a0he\u00a0spoke to me one morning recently about\u00a0ceremonies:<\/span><\/p>\n

“Symbolism is NOT Me!”<\/span><\/p>\n

How much clearer\u00a0or simpler\u00a0could Jesus be than that?<\/span><\/p>\n

\ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n

S~<\/span><\/p>\n

==============<\/span><\/p>\n

Sister Sandy, <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I think that\u00a0comment from Jesus\u00a0to you is one of the most\u00a0important truths that we, and all God’s children everywhere, need to take in.\u00a0 O! would to God that all His children could just understand that simple\u00a0word from the Lord!\u00a0 They would “come out of her” in droves.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0question\u00a0is simply this:\u00a0\u00a0“Ceremonies:\u00a0\u00a0Do we want them or Him?”\u00a0 They are NOT the same thing!\u00a0 And we are not living in the OT time, when God’s people had no\u00a0choice!\u00a0 All they had was\u00a0ceremonies.\u00a0 What a golden opportunity is ours, to have the choice to serve God “in spirit and in truth”!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

jdc<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

==============<\/span><\/p>\n

From Vince’s email:<\/span><\/p>\n

“The communion ceremony was one of those ceremonies that I had a hard time understanding the reasoning behind, probably because I was not fully understanding Jesus\u2019 real meaning by drinking his blood, and eating his flesh.\u00a0 But when you were speaking to the folks in Louisville about the time when you were young, and you didn\u2019t know what the little cups of wine were for, so you and your friend just drank them and pretended to be drunk, that stood out to me.\u00a0 And then later on you said that\u2019s what you have to do without God\u2019s life in you; you have to PRETEND to drink of the Spirit, and PRETEND to have fellowship with the Father, the Son, and with each other.\u00a0 Anyway, this really helped to clear things up for me.<\/span><\/p>\n

After reading through the Law for the first time a while back, what really struck me is how detailed the ceremonial works of the Law were, and how precisely God required them to be performed.\u00a0\u00a0 I just could not believe that God would go to so much trouble teaching Moses exactly what was required of Israel in the Old Testament (15 chapters on building the tabernacle alone!), and then give seemingly vague hints at ceremonies to be performed for His new Covenant.\u00a0 Makes no sense, and rebellion really does seem to be what is necessary for someone to insist on forcing what Jesus said into a box and making a ceremony out of it.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bro. John: When I read Vince’s reply to the excerpt from your book,\u00a0Jesus reminded me of\u00a0what\u00a0he\u00a0spoke to me one morning recently about\u00a0ceremonies: “Symbolism is NOT Me!” How much clearer\u00a0or simpler\u00a0could Jesus be than that? \ud83d\ude42 S~ ============== Sister Sandy, I think that\u00a0comment from Jesus\u00a0to you is one of the most\u00a0important truths that we, and all […]<\/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-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323"}],"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=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}