{"id":6187,"date":"2015-09-03T23:54:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T23:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=6187"},"modified":"2015-09-03T23:54:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T23:54:38","slug":"gods-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/6187\/gods-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hey Brother John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">During a recent meeting I gave a testimony about a relative being baptized in a river and how she rejected the truth about the holy Ghost baptism. Her rejection of the truth saddened me, and the next day I was feeling kind of down about it. Then a thought came to me which was this; &#8220;You didn&#8217;t get yourself here, and you can&#8217;t get them here either.&#8221; That thought lifted that burden off of me. It reminded me that anyone coming to the truth is a work of God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">My question is this. Isn&#8217;t it also true that when someone leaves the truth, that&#8217;s also a work of God?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Billy H.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">=========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Yes, Billy. \u00a0Whenever anyone walks away from the truth of Christ, it is that God has judged them unworthy of it. \u00a0We cannot judge the truth; rather, it judges us. Jesus said something like this:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. \u00a0He who rejects me, and receives not my words, has one that judges him. The word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day&#8221; (John. 47-48).<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Brother John, During a recent meeting I gave a testimony about a relative being baptized in a river and how she rejected the truth about the holy Ghost baptism. Her rejection of the truth saddened me, and the next day I was feeling kind of down about it. Then a thought came to me [&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-6187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6187"}],"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=6187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}