{"id":745,"date":"2010-02-08T10:51:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T14:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/Correspondence\/?p=745"},"modified":"2010-02-08T10:51:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T14:51:11","slug":"a-confused-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/745\/a-confused-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"A Confused Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hi Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I couldn&#8217;t help but send this to you.\u00a0 It&#8217;s one of those &#8220;what in the world can they be thinking&#8221; statements.\u00a0 I found it on a pentecostal website, TRYING to teach about salvation.\u00a0 It was two different statements on their same site.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;The act of being baptized washes away all your sins making your soul spotless. But baptism isn&#8217;t just being sprinkled with water, it is the full immersion of a person underwater.&#8221;\u00a0 AND, then&#8230; &#8220;When a person receives the Holy Ghost, God literally comes and lives in that person. This is an important step of salvation, and without it a person is not truly saved.\u00a0 To be filled with the Holy Ghost a person must have asked Jesus for forgiveness(and some people must be baptized) then they must ask Jesus for the Holy Ghost.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nDo you read what I am reading?\u00a0 Crazy confusion!\u00a0 You know, they may be just trying to fit in a desperate answer of someone getting the holy Ghost before their water baptism (washes their sins).\u00a0 They just can&#8217;t explain it!\u00a0 Makes you feel so bad for them, because we know the simple answer to their confusion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Melissa<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">============ <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000080;\"><em>Hi Melissa.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000080;\"><em>Solomon said something to the effect that with much wisdom is much grief, and he who increases in knowledge increases in sorrow.\u00a0 What we feel when we read such nonsense is the increased sorrow for God&#8217;s people that comes with understanding.\u00a0 May God help them, just as He has graciously helped us.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000080;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">You are so right.\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard sometimes.\u00a0 So many times all you can do is cry, when thinking about it.\u00a0 I know I do.\u00a0 I can begin thinking about it all, and the Spirit just takes over and I cry.\u00a0 It&#8217;s really not me crying though, its just floods of tears in the Spirit. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Melissa<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Pastor John, I couldn&#8217;t help but send this to you.\u00a0 It&#8217;s one of those &#8220;what in the world can they be thinking&#8221; statements.\u00a0 I found it on a pentecostal website, TRYING to teach about salvation.\u00a0 It was two different statements on their same site. \u00a0 &#8220;The act of being baptized washes away all your [&hellip;]<\/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-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745"}],"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=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}