{"id":3797,"date":"2013-12-11T15:11:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T15:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=3797"},"modified":"2013-12-11T15:11:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T15:11:08","slug":"godless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/3797\/godless\/","title":{"rendered":"Godless"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n

I read this after I got home from taking Jacob to practice. \u00a0I just sit here thanking Jesus for this life we get to live. \u00a0The effect the body has had on my children since we moved here has been more than I could have ever dreamed. \u00a0Oh to live this life! \u00a0It really does work. \u00a0On the way taking Jacob to practice, we stopped at the gas station. \u00a0Jacob went in to get some water. \u00a0When he got back in the car, he asked me to pull over to another car at the gas pumps. \u00a0There was an elderly man standing there pumping gas. \u00a0Jacob walked up to him. \u00a0He told the man he wanted to apologize for the way the young girl behind the counter treated him. \u00a0The man looked at Jacob in shock. \u00a0He told Jacob it was ok. \u00a0I was a little shocked myself. \u00a0When he got back in the car, he told me the young girl behind the counter was very rude to the man. \u00a0He was an old man and couldn’t remember his zip code, and the girl rolled her eyes at him. \u00a0Jacob said she finally ask the man for his drivers license and got the zip code, but her attitude was awful. \u00a0Jesus is giving our children right feelings!! \u00a0I love that and want to do my part! \u00a0Thank you for having a safe place for us and our children to grow!<\/span><\/p>\n

Love,<\/span><\/p>\n

Jammie\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Godless<\/span><\/p>\n

A\u00a0most frightening aspect of this culture\u2019s rejection of Jesus is the effect that the absence of the gospel is having on the spirits of young people. \u00a0The gospel of Christ is of such power that it has a softening influence on the hearts of all who hear it, even on those who do not respond in faith, and everyone is blessed in a society where the gospel is preached, not just believers.\u00a0 But in cultures where the gospel is suppressed, there is nothing to take its place, and young people are left to grow up without a godly conscience, and without a true sense of good and evil.<\/span><\/p>\n

We are seeing in some places now the awful effects of keeping children from the gospel.\u00a0 This generation, with its pseudo-sophistication and pride, is beginning to pay the price for its foolish insistence that to deny children the gospel is the way to true freedom, and for striving to make this culture godless.\u00a0 Nothing in human society strikes me as being quite as dreadful as the roving packs of young men in the streets now, with no conscience, attacking at random and without even the motivation of robbery.\u00a0 The pain they inflict is just for kicks.\u00a0 That is but one result of keeping the young from the influence of the saving gospel of Christ.<\/span><\/p>\n

To be godless is to be merciless, for God is merciful. \u00a0To be godless is to have no moral boundaries, for God is good. \u00a0To be godless is to be beastly, driven by the base appetites of the flesh, for God is holy in all His ways. \u00a0To be godless is to be perverse in judgment, because God is wise and just. \u00a0To be godless is to have no strength or will to resist and to overcome the dark spirits in this world, for God is full of power.<\/span><\/p>\n

Teach your children the stories that God has provided for us in the Bible!\u00a0 Don\u2019t make excuses.\u00a0 Do it!\u00a0 Are you too busy to save your own child?<\/span><\/p>\n

The whole world has benefited from the influence of the gospel of Jesus Christ because our forebears made sure the gospel was known, in their homes and beyond. \u00a0They understood the value of the gospel and yielded to the power of its influence. \u00a0They knew that the message of the gospel would restrain the baser aspects of human nature.\u00a0 If we would be wise, we will not take that precious influence for granted.<\/span><\/p>\n

If parents fail to acquaint their children with the gospel, if they fail to walk in its light so that the young can become acquainted with the feelings and the wisdom of the gospel, what will keep the young from being godless? \u00a0And then, when those godless little children mature and begin living like animals, with no sense of shame and no fear of God, who will control them?”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Pastor John, I read this after I got home from taking Jacob to practice. \u00a0I just sit here thanking Jesus for this life we get to live. \u00a0The effect the body has had on my children since we moved here has been more than I could have ever dreamed. \u00a0Oh to live this life! \u00a0It […]<\/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-3797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797"}],"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=3797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}