{"id":5593,"date":"2015-03-15T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=5593"},"modified":"2015-03-15T15:58:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T15:58:00","slug":"gods-wonderful-truth-always-thrills-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/5593\/gods-wonderful-truth-always-thrills-me\/","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s Wonderful Truth Always Thrills Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Good evening John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I&#8217;m sitting here in my office working on the computer, and I started smiling,\u00a0thinking of how thankful I am for God&#8217;s wonderful truths, and something you said in the meeting\u00a0today. I can&#8217;t get it out of my mind, how good it\u00a0felt to even\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">understand<\/span>\u00a0you!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">In the meeting you were talking about Peter, and\u00a0you said\u00a0that he had &#8220;denied he ever knew Jesus.&#8221;\u00a0 But that God forgave him, because it was true.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">One thing\u00a0I loved about that was realizing that I understood what you were saying!\u00a0 Without the knowledge of the truth (when a person is born again), that statement can&#8217;t even be understood.\u00a0 Without the holy Ghost baptism, Peter really\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">didn&#8217;t<\/span>\u00a0know Jesus.\u00a0 Without the baptism of the holy Ghost, NOBODY really knows Jesus.\u00a0 He was, and is,\u00a0a mystery to those who are &#8220;none of his.&#8221;\u00a0 And even though Peter denied he knew Jesus and wept bitterly because of it&#8230;. in reality, he told the truth &#8211;\u00a0and so\u00a0Jesus forgave him.\u00a0That was just so\u00a0<em><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">sweet<\/span><\/em>\u00a0to me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The new birth is like a brilliant many-faceted diamond &#8211; there are always new angles on it, new information, new ways to see it, new truths to understand in it,\u00a0new ways to see\u00a0it and look at it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">This was one of them for me &#8211; it\u00a0came from &#8220;above&#8221;, and I loved it.\u00a0 I&#8217;m still smiling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Gary\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening John, I&#8217;m sitting here in my office working on the computer, and I started smiling,\u00a0thinking of how thankful I am for God&#8217;s wonderful truths, and something you said in the meeting\u00a0today. I can&#8217;t get it out of my mind, how good it\u00a0felt to even\u00a0understand\u00a0you!\u00a0 In the meeting you were talking about Peter, and\u00a0you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5593"}],"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=5593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}