{"id":5242,"date":"2014-12-24T14:23:45","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T14:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=5242"},"modified":"2014-12-24T14:23:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T14:23:45","slug":"lord-at-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/5242\/lord-at-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Lord at Birth&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">My children and grandchildren sang a few Christmas carols after our Christmas Eve supper tonight.\u00a0 As we sang the classic song, &#8220;Silent Night&#8221;, something in one of the verses caught my attention.\u00a0 The end of the verse says, &#8220;Jesus, Lord at thy birth. Jesus, Lord at thy birth.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"> The prophet Malachi foretold of the Messiah&#8217;s coming by saying, &#8220;The Lord whom you seek shall suddenly come to his temple.&#8221;\u00a0 This happened when the Son of God, in the shape of a harmless dove, &#8220;suddenly&#8221; came from heaven and lit upon Jesus, Mary&#8217;s son.\u00a0 Therefore, the Lord whom Israel sought was still in heaven when Jesus was born.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"> Jesus was not Lord when he was born.\u00a0 He was made Lord and Christ when the Lord and Christ from heaven came into him and the Son of God from heaven was blended with the son of Mary from Nazareth.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Pastor John<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My children and grandchildren sang a few Christmas carols after our Christmas Eve supper tonight.\u00a0 As we sang the classic song, &#8220;Silent Night&#8221;, something in one of the verses caught my attention.\u00a0 The end of the verse says, &#8220;Jesus, Lord at thy birth. Jesus, Lord at thy birth.&#8221; The prophet Malachi foretold of the Messiah&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242"}],"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=5242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}