{"id":5917,"date":"2015-06-03T01:15:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T01:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=5917"},"modified":"2015-06-03T01:15:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T01:15:35","slug":"finish-the-sacrifice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/5917\/finish-the-sacrifice\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Finish the Sacrifice&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Jenny\u2019s email about the cross and her thoughts about how men stop there and worship it instead of going past it and on to Jesus (see post June 1, 2015, The Cross), along with the\u200b other\u200b emails\u200b,\u200b reminded me of when I was at your house recently with a few others. \u200b \u200bThere was a brief conversation about the cross and how that Jesus had to go beyond it to finish the sacrifice.\u200b \u200b I know that we already know that, but it was refreshing to hear it again. \u200b \u200bThe truth really never does grow old to our ears or hearts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I am still thinking about what you said to me as I hugged you and said goodbye. \u200b \u200bYou said \u201cfinish the sacrifice\u200b.\u200b\u201d\u200b \u200b I left there thinking, \u200b&#8221;Yes, I can do that.\u200b&#8221; \u200b I knew that my life is the sacrifice, but these emails have made what you said more clear to me.\u200b \u200b In finishing the sacrifice, we are living our lives out to where we, with Jesus\u2019 help, will one day be able to present our sacrifice (our life) to the Father\u200b,\u200b as Jesus did. \u200b \u200bThis has been very good to think about.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Darren<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, Jenny\u2019s email about the cross and her thoughts about how men stop there and worship it instead of going past it and on to Jesus (see post June 1, 2015, The Cross), along with the\u200b other\u200b emails\u200b,\u200b reminded me of when I was at your house recently with a few others. \u200b \u200bThere [&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-5917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5917"}],"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=5917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}