{"id":8166,"date":"2016-10-04T14:23:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T14:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=8166"},"modified":"2016-10-04T14:23:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T14:23:22","slug":"john-717","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/8166\/john-717\/","title":{"rendered":"John 7:17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">Pastor John,<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">I was considering this morning how often the truth of God is rejected by those who hear it.<\/span>\u00a0 <span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">A Bible verse then came to mind, and then an understanding of what God is doing for our little part of the body of Christ here, through those countless rejections:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">John 7:17 (KJV)<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><b><i><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">\u201cIf any man will do His will<\/span><\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">By God hiding His truth (doctrine) from those who are<\/span>\u00a0<b><i><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">not<\/span><\/i><\/b>\u00a0<i><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">&#8220;doing His will&#8221;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">, God is keeping us free from the disobedient, and free from their sin&#8230;and the destruction of communion and fellowship that would surely follow.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">That is wonderful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">Jerry<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">===========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">That is why I thank God, Jerry, for every person that is here, and for every person that is not! \u00a0God is blessing us both ways.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">Pastor John<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John,\u00a0 I was considering this morning how often the truth of God is rejected by those who hear it.\u00a0 A Bible verse then came to mind, and then an understanding of what God is doing for our little part of the body of Christ here, through those countless rejections: John 7:17 (KJV) \u201cIf any [&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-8166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8166"}],"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=8166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}