{"id":6254,"date":"2015-10-08T14:57:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T14:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=6254"},"modified":"2015-10-08T14:57:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T14:57:03","slug":"it-is-now-better-to-be-with-than-in-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/6254\/it-is-now-better-to-be-with-than-in-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"It is now better to be with than in Christ!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Often, Beth and I speak of being in the one true &#8220;witness protection program&#8221;.\u00a0 Jesus knows how to hide us from the mob. Now we just need to be good witnesses. Only real witnesses get hidden;\u00a0even this earthly government knows not to waste their resources hiding anyone who isn&#8217;t a real witness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I really enjoyed what you pointed out tonight about us humans, again, having backward thoughts; that is, for us to think that\u00a0having\u00a0Christ\u00a0<em>in<\/em>\u00a0us, is better than being\u00a0<em>with<\/em>\u00a0him, in His presence.\u00a0\u00a0That was true for the disciples before Pentecost, but now the opposite is true. He is\u00a0<em>in<\/em>\u00a0us now, but it will be greater for us to be\u00a0<em>with<\/em>\u00a0him when he comes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">After you said that this evening, I could just imagine Jesus\u2019 disciples barely able to contain themselves as they proclaimed their joy of being\u00a0in His presence,\u00a0and Jesus then saying to them, &#8220;Oh, but what greater joy, for\u00a0me to dwell in\u00a0you\u00a0!&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And then, Jesus&#8217; present disciples\u00a0\u2013 us \u2013 striving\u00a0to receive the Spirit and have him in us, and obtaining it, and then we, proclaiming our joy, for &#8220;Jesus, now dwells\u00a0<em>within<\/em>!&#8221;, only\u00a0to have\u00a0Jesus to speak again, with a smile on His face, and say, &#8220;Oh, but\u00a0what greater joy for you\u00a0to be\u00a0<em>with<\/em>\u00a0me, in my presence!&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Ha ha!\u00a0 I just have to laugh when I consider it. He is so wise and we are so not.\u00a0 But we are loved, and He sees us through.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t know anything, even when He tells us. We are always wrong, even when we are right. And more and more, I see that He is always right, even if He contradicts Himself without ceasing. His words make truth! The truth doesn&#8217;t even exist, until He is IT, at that moment in time. He doesn&#8217;t line Himself up with the truth, He creates it by existing.\u00a0 And He\u00a0permits our effort to count for something, out of sheer love for us. Otherwise, all that we do is useless and wrong, even if it is useful and right \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thank you. Good night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Jerry\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, Often, Beth and I speak of being in the one true &#8220;witness protection program&#8221;.\u00a0 Jesus knows how to hide us from the mob. Now we just need to be good witnesses. Only real witnesses get hidden;\u00a0even this earthly government knows not to waste their resources hiding anyone who isn&#8217;t a real witness.\u00a0 I [&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-6254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254"}],"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=6254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}