{"id":6934,"date":"2016-02-10T18:46:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T18:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=6934"},"modified":"2016-02-10T18:46:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T18:46:31","slug":"the-point-of-this-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/6934\/the-point-of-this-work\/","title":{"rendered":"The Point of This Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I was listening to a CD this morning, and in it, you made it clear that we are to be without divisions&#8230;.amongst ourselves. \u00a0I just wanted to repeat what you have said in the past, that is, &#8220;division is of the flesh&#8221;. \u00a0\u00a0If we wear everything in this world very loosely, except the holy Ghost, we will be able and EAGER to slip out of any preference or choice, that WE may have before it has a chance to threaten unity and fellowship in the Body.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">But the reason that I wrote is this: \u00a0After considering division, and the damage that it does, I was reminded of what this work of yours is about. \u00a0This work, that we are allowed to be a part of, was founded in your father&#8217;s desire for power to unite the broken Body of Christ. \u00a0The power and the truth that he received were, and continue to be, for that purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Knowing that takes such a load off of the heart!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I feel like knowing that means that we can rest from being troubled that the entire world, in the main, rejects the fruit of this work. \u00a0It is not for the world; it is for the uniting of the Spirit-filled scattered sheep across the globe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">What a beautiful thing we have been allowed to participate in! \u00a0That is something that surely deserves much prayer and sacrifice, on our part.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Jerry<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, I was listening to a CD this morning, and in it, you made it clear that we are to be without divisions&#8230;.amongst ourselves. \u00a0I just wanted to repeat what you have said in the past, that is, &#8220;division is of the flesh&#8221;. \u00a0\u00a0If we wear everything in this world very loosely, except the [&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-6934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934"}],"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=6934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}