{"id":780,"date":"2010-02-20T19:55:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T19:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=780"},"modified":"2010-02-20T19:55:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T19:55:03","slug":"freedom-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/780\/freedom-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a style=\"color:#0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.blogspot.com\/2011_02_01_archive.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.blogspot.com\/2011_02_01_archive.html<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pastor John,<\/p>\n<p>This is some kind of statement from your BLOG.\u00a0 It stood out to me when I was reading it the other day:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we are not free to choose disobedience and rebellion, then we are not free to choose love and faithfulness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amy P.<\/p>\n<p>============<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hi Amy:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Freedom can be the greatest blessing or the greatest curse we ever receive from God, depending on how we use it.\u00a0 May God grant us the kind of heart that makes our liberty in Christ a blessing, not a curse.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>============<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that is is the statement that stood out to me too&#8230;I wrote an email on it.\u00a0 We must be free, if we are ever going to chose the good.\u00a0 The good can not be done by people who are not allowed to do the bad, if they wish too.\u00a0\u00a0 The good can only be done by those who are free enough to choose the bad if they wanted to but didn&#8217;t WANT to.\u00a0 They loved the good more.\u00a0\u00a0 That&#8217;s powerful.<\/p>\n<p>te.<\/p>\n<p>============<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Yes, you got it.\u00a0 What is truly good in God&#8217;s sight can only be done by those who have the choice to do either.\u00a0 Before we are converted and receive the power of the Spirit, we have no choice.\u00a0 We are bound to sin.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>jdc<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.blogspot.com\/2011_02_01_archive.html &nbsp; Pastor John, This is some kind of statement from your BLOG.\u00a0 It stood out to me when I was reading it the other day: &#8220;If we are not free to choose disobedience and rebellion, then we are not free to choose love and faithfulness.&#8221; Amy P. ============ Hi Amy: Freedom can be the [&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-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780"}],"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=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}