{"id":362,"date":"2009-05-09T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/Correspondence\/?p=362"},"modified":"2009-05-09T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T20:30:00","slug":"aog-pastor-in-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/362\/aog-pastor-in-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"AOG Pastor in CA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greetings in the name of Jesus:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I hope this finds you well.\u00a0 I received your responses to my five questions.\u00a0 Thank you for sending them.\u00a0 It was very revealing, and I shared your answers with the whole body here, and it touched our hearts for God\u2019s people.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

You also sent me a question about some who are said to have been\u00a0filled with the Spirit before the day of Pentecost.\u00a0 In particular, you mentioned the family of Zacharias the priest.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

In answer, we know that no one received the holy Spirit until Jesus ascended and was glorified because John said so in his gospel (Jn. 7:39).\u00a0 We also know that the New Testament did not begin until after Jesus died (Heb. 9:16-17) and that the new Testament is the Spirit entering into a heart and writing God\u2019s will on it (Heb. 8:8-12).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

So, Zacharias and his family were living in Old Testament time, which requires us to understand their \u201cfilling\u201d as something other than a New Testament kind of being filled.\u00a0 Even the prophet Micah once said, \u201cI am full of the spirit and power of God,\u201d but no one (except Mormons, and a few others) believes that Micah and the prophets received the baptism of the Spirit and were born again.\u00a0 There obviously was a being filled with the Spirit under the Law, but if it was the infilling\/baptism of the Spirit that Jesus came to suffer and die for us to have, he could have saved himself a trip, seeing it was already here.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

No, the Spirit was not given to man until the day of Pentecost, after Jesus was glorified, just as John said (7:37-39).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I hope I adequately explained this.\u00a0 If not, I will be happy to try again.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Your servant,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Pastor John<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greetings in the name of Jesus: I hope this finds you well.\u00a0 I received your responses to my five questions.\u00a0 Thank you for sending them.\u00a0 It was very revealing, and I shared your answers with the whole body here, and it touched our hearts for God\u2019s people. You also sent me a question about some […]<\/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-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362"}],"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=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}