{"id":8173,"date":"2016-10-10T23:24:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T23:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=8173"},"modified":"2016-10-10T23:24:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T23:24:13","slug":"you-cant-tell-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/8173\/you-cant-tell-them\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can&#8217;t Tell Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Bro John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">This is so good &amp; so true. The very thing that people in Christianity are praying for is what they are holding on to the most. But oh how I do love your last sentence:\u00a0&#8220;To come out of Christianity is such a frightening thought to them\u00a0that only God knows how to enter that tender part of their hearts with His Son&#8217;s piercing, liberating light.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">That gives so much hope for those precious people who are really crying inside their hearts\u00a0to be set free from those hard, religious ceremonies &amp; forms that really mean nothing to them (when they get honest enough\u00a0with themselves &amp; desperate enough to admit it). What a grand\u00a0time that will be when sincere souls realize something not&#8217;s right with all that &amp; God enters that special place in their hearts with His truth &amp; His feelings of what&#8217;s really right.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">You used to sing a song about letting go of the stone that&#8217;s pulling you down. I really like that song but I\u00a0can&#8217;t remember many of the words. Be nice for you to sing it for us soon!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thanks for sending this out. Makes me want to pray more for God&#8217;s people that are still bound by Christianity&#8217;s hold but deep down inside wanting a way out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Sheila<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">============\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;padding-left:30px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">You Can\u2019t Tell Them<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;padding-left:30px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John Clark, Sr.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;padding-left:30px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u201c<em>Save us, O LORD\u00a0our God, and gather us from among the heathen,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;padding-left:30px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em>to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise<\/em>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;padding-left:30px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Psalm 106:47<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">This is the unwitting prayer of every soul in Christianity who truly loves God.\u00a0 In crying out for truth and unity, they are crying out to be delivered from Christian ministers, Christian traditions, and Christian doctrines, for those are the things that are confusing and dividing them.\u00a0 But if you tell them that, they will turn against you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">God has to show them that the thing they love, Christianity, is the very thing that is confusing and dividing them.\u00a0 It is the thing God most hates.\u00a0 Sincere believers everywhere are praying for God\u2019s cure for the deadly disease of division, while clinging with all their might to the thing that divides them: Christianity.\u00a0 They are like a man pleading to be rescued from drowning while holding on to a boulder.\u00a0 You can\u2019t have it both ways.\u00a0 The prayer of sincere children of God to be united with others who believe will never be answered until they let go of the stone that is pulling them down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">But you can\u2019t tell that to God\u2019s children.\u00a0 To come out of Christianity is such a frightening thought to them that only God knows how to enter that tender part of their hearts with His Son\u2019s piercing, liberating light.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bro John, This is so good &amp; so true. The very thing that people in Christianity are praying for is what they are holding on to the most. But oh how I do love your last sentence:\u00a0&#8220;To come out of Christianity is such a frightening thought to them\u00a0that only God knows how to enter that [&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-8173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8173"}],"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=8173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}