{"id":777,"date":"2010-02-20T19:52:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T19:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=777"},"modified":"2010-02-20T19:52:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T19:52:01","slug":"the-father-and-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/777\/the-father-and-son\/","title":{"rendered":"The Father and Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a style=\"color:#0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/text\/books\/fatherandson.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">http:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/text\/books\/fatherandson.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">John:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">God was correct, I know, but why did he choose to hide the son?\u00a0 Was it so the Son could learn how to deal with every situation by acting the way the Father would act?\u00a0 So other creatures in heaven and earth could revere and respect him as they do the Father (being as He was going to put the Son on the throne)?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Had he made a way to raise a people up worthy to worship him?\u00a0 Was it because God was searching for a way to reveal himself?\u00a0 Was it for us to see what a wonderful Father he was by revealing his son?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">God help me love your son the way you want me too!<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"> Wendell<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hi Wendell:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>I am not sure if anyone can answer that question fully.\u00a0 But the answer must include at least one of the reasons you mentioned; namely, that the Father knew the best way to reveal Himself was by hiding the Son until the appointed time, and then revealing him in Jesus Christ.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Ah, the wisdom of God!\u00a0 His ways are indeed &#8220;past finding out&#8221;.\u00a0 But His ways are not impossible for Him to reveal, when He chooses to reveal them!\u00a0 Thank God that He revealed Himself to us in the Son.\u00a0 What an awesome God He is!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>jdc<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/text\/books\/fatherandson.pdf &nbsp; John: God was correct, I know, but why did he choose to hide the son?\u00a0 Was it so the Son could learn how to deal with every situation by acting the way the Father would act?\u00a0 So other creatures in heaven and earth could revere and respect him as they do the Father [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777"}],"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=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}