{"id":7062,"date":"2016-02-27T14:14:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T14:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=7062"},"modified":"2016-02-27T14:14:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T14:14:10","slug":"our-righteousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/7062\/our-righteousness\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Righteousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Beth and I were talking tonight about life in the Spirit.\u00a0 And while we spoke, I felt Jesus.\u00a0 After that, I felt like I understood this:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">God has amply provided us with knowledge, through the scriptures, of\u00a0how He feels about our righteousness (the righteousness of men).\u00a0 The verse that immediately comes to my mind, is &#8220;our righteousness is like filthy rags&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">That verse is not saying that the behavior of men that is contrary to God\u00a0is like filthy rags in His sight (though it is).\u00a0 What that verse means is that all the behavior of men, even the behavior of men that is considered right, is like filthy rags, even if it perfectly mirrors the righteousness of God.\u00a0 In other words, it has nothing to do with the behavior, or act being performed by a man. It has everything to do with the motivation and intent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">If a carnally minded man abstains from alcohol and drugs and fornication and gluttony and all of those things, just as God commanded, it can only be for the furtherance of his carnal desires.\u00a0 Perhaps it is for the upkeep of his appearance, or to impress and gain attention from others, or to further his financial success, or his longevity of life, to enjoy that financial success. Whatever it is for, though it be godly in appearance, it\u00a0cannot be for the Glory of God.\u00a0 The flesh only minds the things of the flesh, it is not subject to the will of God, nor can it be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Therefore, a man&#8217;s reason for what he is doing can pollute the thing that he does, even if what he is doing, is exactly what Jesus wants him to do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Jerry<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John,\u00a0 Beth and I were talking tonight about life in the Spirit.\u00a0 And while we spoke, I felt Jesus.\u00a0 After that, I felt like I understood this: God has amply provided us with knowledge, through the scriptures, of\u00a0how He feels about our righteousness (the righteousness of men).\u00a0 The verse that immediately comes to my [&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-7062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062"}],"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=7062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}