{"id":8859,"date":"2017-03-08T18:47:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T18:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=8859"},"modified":"2017-03-08T18:47:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T18:47:17","slug":"more-blog-comments-the-only-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/8859\/more-blog-comments-the-only-proof\/","title":{"rendered":"More Blog Comments – The Only Proof"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love it! The Spirit is the witness!\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Donna N<\/span><\/p>\n

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Very good. Without the Holy Ghost, human wisdom is just arguing with human wisdom. (Much like me arguing with iPhone \u201cauto-correct\u201d insisting on capitalizing Holy Ghost.) \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Richard F<\/span><\/p>\n

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Very good.\u00a0 If things like last night\u2019s movie do not move a person toward receiving the holy ghost what is their use?\u00a0 That movie was better than some things I have seen yet I already knew that the holy ghost would not be mentioned.\u00a0 In my case, seeing an Answers in Genesis presentation stirred the thoughts in me that God was real, but I continued on to thinking that, if that is true, then where did I stand with God?\u00a0 In about a year I has received the holy ghost and ceased attending a Christian denomination.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Damien<\/span><\/p>\n

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Very good. Without the witness of the Spirit there will always be a debate among the scientists, and everyone else for that matter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tom<\/span><\/p>\n

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John,<\/span><\/p>\n

This is so good, and it goes right along with what I was feeling and what Amy and I were talking about last night after we went to Wilmington to watch this movie.\u00a0 It was all very interesting, but it left out the only real evidence there is for God \u2013 His Spirit.\u00a0 Before Jesus touched me in 2007, I used to think that I believed in the theory of evolution (crazy as it sounds now).\u00a0 But it was not a counter-theory, or \u201ccreationism\u201d, or\u00a0<\/span>a man<\/span><\/b>\u00a0who changed my thinking.\u00a0 It was a real touch from Jesus that day that made me feel he was real in a moment!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I love this \u2013 thanks for sending it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Vince<\/span><\/p>\n

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Very good John. \u00a0I wish you would have been sitting at the table with the scientist at the end of the movie last night. It was all very interesting, but we can be discussing such things of Jesus had never come. Without the Holy Ghost, where will it all lead? \u00a0It leaves you on the edge of your seat, saying: \u201cwhat about the answer??\u201d \u00a0Anyway I enjoyed reading this because it’s exactly what I felt leaving the movie!<\/span><\/p>\n

Gary<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Only Proof<\/span><\/p>\n

“It is the Spirit that bears witness because the Spirit is truth<\/em>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

1John 5:6b<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The increase in number of scientists and educators who are not afraid to publicly confess faith in the Bible\u2019s creation and flood stories is refreshing.\u00a0 The evolution bullies are having their stranglehold on education and scientific outlets loosened a little.\u00a0 We may be seeing the beginning of a revival of good, common sense in the scientific and education communities.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Before you start jumping for joy, however, let me remind you of this eternal truth: the holy Ghost is the only completely dependable witness that the Bible is true and that Jesus is Lord.\u00a0 It does feel like a relief to hear scientists and scholars speak up in favor of Genesis being a trustworthy record of historical events, but if those scientists and scholars do not have the holy Ghost, they do not even belong to God, much less have they been sent to speak on His behalf!\u00a0 And not belonging to God, they must have an agenda other than love for God for their defense of the Bible.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The theory of evolution has always been goofy.\u00a0 God\u2019s children\u00a0have never needed help from \u201ccreation scientists\u201d to understand that.\u00a0 Genuine faith needs no scientific evidence to be strong and sure.\u00a0 No matter what we know of earthly scientific facts, it is only by faith that we understand that the worlds were formed by the word of God (Heb. 11:6).\u00a0 Do not be seduced into leaning on the knowledge and wisdom of men!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 One of the first truths Jesus taught me as a young believer is that the closer something comes to being true, without being true, the more evil it is.\u00a0 Someone who is close to the truth can deceive many more people than someone who is nowhere near right.\u00a0 Likewise,\u00a0men who defend the Bible, but have not yet been baptized with the holy Ghost into the body of Christ, are only close to the truth; they are not in it!\u00a0 And the truth is not in them, for \u201cthe Spirit is truth.\u201d\u00a0 Guard your hearts against such men!\u00a0 Do not trust those who believe in the goodness and need of the Bible but who do not believe in the goodness and need of the holy Ghost!\u00a0 They are not of God!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The holy Ghost is God\u2019s witness that everything in the Bible is true, and it is sufficient.\u00a0 The geological, biological, and astronomical facts that \u201ccreation scientists\u201d proclaim can be interesting and instructive, but they are all things the human spirit can learn and teach; they can never create righteousness and save a soul.\u00a0 \u201cIf we receive the witness of men<\/em>,\u201d John wrote, \u201cthe witness of God is greater.\u00a0 And this [the Spirit] is the witness of God which He has borne of His Son<\/em>\u201d (1Jn. 5:9).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 John went on to say that \u201cHe who believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself<\/em>,\u201d and that \u201che who does not believe God has made Him out to be a liar because he does not believe the witness that God gave of His Son<\/em>.\u201d (1Jn. 5:10).\u00a0 In other words, those who do not have the witness of God, the holy Ghost, are making God out to be a liar, no matter what they say about the Bible, or even what they say about God Himself!\u00a0 Some men passionately argue that the Bible is one big myth, while other men passionately argue that it is all factually true, but they are all making God out to be a liar if they all do not have His Spirit<\/span><\/p>\n

Pastor John<\/span><\/p>\n

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I love it! The Spirit is the witness!\u00a0\u00a0 Donna N ============\u00a0 Very good. Without the Holy Ghost, human wisdom is just arguing with human wisdom. (Much like me arguing with iPhone \u201cauto-correct\u201d insisting on capitalizing Holy Ghost.) \u00a0 Richard F ============\u00a0 Very good.\u00a0 If things like last night\u2019s movie do not move a person toward […]<\/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-8859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8859"}],"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=8859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}