{"id":8882,"date":"2017-03-09T01:48:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T01:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=8882"},"modified":"2017-03-09T01:48:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T01:48:54","slug":"willfully-destroyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/8882\/willfully-destroyed\/","title":{"rendered":"Willfully Destroyed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

I had a thought from Jesus this morning. I wanted to share.<\/span><\/p>\n

The atrocity of being ignorant is not that you “know nothing”; it is that you will believe anything<\/em>. And we who have been touched by God’s grace know that what we believe, determines how we behave, and that<\/strong> determines our eternal destination after this life is over and Jesus has judged, with righteous judgment, all those who have lived on this earth.<\/span><\/p>\n

This current generation is on a path, with its behavior and ideology, to becoming one of the most ignorant and unwise that has ever been recorded in human history. With all of the instantly available information regarding mankind’s failures and triumphs at our fingertips, we as a people still remain oblivious to it. This is apparent by the behavior being displayed by men and women every day, all over this world. Men live today as if man has never lived, died, failed, succeeded and then talked about it, before them!<\/span><\/p>\n

This generation, by refusing to be filled with the wisdom and knowledge given freely by God, and ignoring the readily available experiences recorded by the men that lived before them, have become proponents of fantasies that, not too long ago, even young children would have scoffed at.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choosing to keep your vessel empty of truth, wisdom, and knowledge when it is available to you will make you a vessel of foolishness. You have no choice in the matter, for no one goes through life untouched and empty of influence.<\/span><\/p>\n

But we do have the choice and the opportunity now to be filled with wisdom from God, and to absorb the knowledge and experience recorded by those who have already been down “life’s road”. It is an act of self-hatred to refuse to do so. Or as the Lord showed me this morning, it is the act of being “willfully destroyed”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jerry<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pastor John, I had a thought from Jesus this morning. I wanted to share. The atrocity of being ignorant is not that you “know nothing”; it is that you will believe anything. And we who have been touched by God’s grace know that what we believe, determines how we behave, and that determines our eternal […]<\/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-8882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8882"}],"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=8882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}