{"id":743,"date":"2010-02-08T10:48:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T14:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/Correspondence\/?p=743"},"modified":"2010-02-08T10:48:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T14:48:38","slug":"revelation-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/743\/revelation-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Revelation Study"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pastor John<\/span><\/p>\n

What a wonderful weekend!\u00a0 How good God has been to us!\u00a0 Fellowship in light and truth, wonderful music that touched the heart.\u00a0 There is so much to be thankful for.\u00a0 We are truly in a land running with milk and honey!\u00a0 We don’t want to forget God who has been so good to us.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was just standing behind my seat before we started on Saturday night and there was such a sweet feeling in the room and as I stood there enjoying it those feelings just became stronger.\u00a0 Wonderful!\u00a0 I really enjoyed going through Colossians the way you did.\u00a0 One thing that really struck me was how you brought out that false teachers would say much of what Paul would say.\u00a0 I guess at times false teachers have worked by directly taking away from the truth but most of the time I think they did it by adding to the truth, and in that way eventually everything good and true was lost.\u00a0 Addition [to God’s word] brings about a complete subtraction!<\/span><\/p>\n

I got to wondering how those false teachers got past Paul as they mislead those children of God into ignoring his teaching.\u00a0 One thought I had was maybe they used Paul’s own example of withstanding Peter at Antioch.\u00a0 That could be twisted into an excuse or precedent for correcting Paul (though they didn’t do it to his face.)\u00a0 However they did it, it was evil, and here we are 1900 years later being blessed among the mess that God’s people are in. <\/span><\/p>\n

At 3 to 4 am Saturday morning I woke up and started praying.\u00a0 I found myself praying for God’s people just as we did that night.\u00a0 When we were praying, it was hard for me to know what my feelings were.\u00a0 Sadness, sorrow.\u00a0 Was there a desperation or a helplessness about ourselves for God’s people in our prayer?\u00a0 I don’t have words, but it was a strong feeling that reached down into me.\u00a0 Unless God does something we cannot help them yet.\u00a0 The food we ate and enjoyed so much this weekend would kill so many of God’s poor children.\u00a0 It’s like a man I knew when I was young who was a prisoner at Changi in Singapore during WWII.\u00a0 Even 25 years later he had to eat several small meals each day.\u00a0 He couldn’t take any more than that as his system was so damaged.\u00a0 God’s people have been treated just like that.<\/span><\/p>\n

Damien<\/span><\/p>\n

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Thanks, Damien,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

When I think about Paul living among those people, in Ephesus, Corinth, etc., sometimes for over a year at a time, and yet, later, they were still deceived and led away into a false way, I marvel that we still are rejoicing in the truth.\u00a0 May God continue to have mercy on us, so that we can continue to do this good work for His precious people.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pastor John What a wonderful weekend!\u00a0 How good God has been to us!\u00a0 Fellowship in light and truth, wonderful music that touched the heart.\u00a0 There is so much to be thankful for.\u00a0 We are truly in a land running with milk and honey!\u00a0 We don’t want to forget God who has been so good to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743"}],"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=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}