{"id":6177,"date":"2015-08-31T15:26:44","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T15:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=6177"},"modified":"2015-08-31T15:26:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T15:26:44","slug":"john-334","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/6177\/john-334\/","title":{"rendered":"John 3:34"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">What does &#8220;for God gives\u00a0<em>him<\/em>\u00a0the Spirit without measure.&#8221; mean? \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Djc<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hi Damien,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>That verse means that we either have the Spirit or we don&#8217;t. \u00a0(The &#8220;him&#8221; is not there in the Greek, as you know.) \u00a0In general, it means that God either gives His Spirit or He doesn&#8217;t. \u00a0For God&#8217;s people, it shows them that there is no &#8220;saved, sanctified, and (then) filled with the holy Ghost&#8221;, as many of them claim. \u00a0A person is either born again or he is not.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> I guess if we received the holy Ghost first,\u00a0without being baptized with it (as the Assembly of God and other denominations teach), and get the rest later at Spirit baptism, then that would be\u00a0receiving the holy Ghost WITH measure (i.e. you just get part first, and a second\u00a0&#8220;measure&#8221;,\u00a0later)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> Gary!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">==========<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Yes. That was my point. \u00a0It just never happens like that.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does &#8220;for God gives\u00a0him\u00a0the Spirit without measure.&#8221; mean? \u00a0 Djc ========== Hi Damien, That verse means that we either have the Spirit or we don&#8217;t. \u00a0(The &#8220;him&#8221; is not there in the Greek, as you know.) \u00a0In general, it means that God either gives His Spirit or He doesn&#8217;t. \u00a0For God&#8217;s people, it shows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6177"}],"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=6177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}