{"id":4300,"date":"2011-09-17T00:05:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T00:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=4300"},"modified":"2011-09-17T00:05:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T00:05:36","slug":"pearls-september-15-2011-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/4300\/pearls-september-15-2011-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearls &#8211; September 15, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/pearl15.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4301\" alt=\"PEARL15\" src=\"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/pearl15.png?w=300\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/pearl15.png 438w, https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/pearl15-300x268.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Need help with this &#8220;Pearl&#8221;. . .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Is <em>compassion<\/em> different from <em>sympathy<\/em>? Jesus had compassion, even for Gentiles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">In what situation would sympathy be an &#8220;error&#8221; that might compel someone to drift away from the the right way?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Brad<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"> ===============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Hi Brad.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">There are very many ways that sympathy can be ungodly. Anything, in fact, is sinful if it is &#8220;not of faith&#8221; (Rom. 14:23), including love (1Jn. 2:15) and prayer (Prov. 28:9).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">You might want to read the story of the foolish king who had ungodly compassion on the king of Syria (and of the Israelite who had too much &#8220;compassion&#8221;, sort of, for the prophet that he refused to strike him when God commanded him to) in 1Kings 20.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Pastor John<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John, Need help with this &#8220;Pearl&#8221;. . . Is compassion different from sympathy? Jesus had compassion, even for Gentiles. In what situation would sympathy be an &#8220;error&#8221; that might compel someone to drift away from the the right way? Brad =============== Hi Brad. There are very many ways that sympathy can be ungodly. Anything, in [&hellip;]<\/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-4300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300"}],"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=4300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}