{"id":2205,"date":"2022-03-26T17:21:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T17:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwbministries.com\/?p=2205"},"modified":"2022-03-26T17:21:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T17:21:54","slug":"does-that-make-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bwbministries.com\/?p=2205","title":{"rendered":"Does That Make Sense?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are a lot of things Christians receive that we don\u2019t fully understand. <strong><u>Like a mark of Redemption<\/u><\/strong>. Many people don\u2019t know what that means. <strong><u>Gifts to be able to hear<\/u><\/strong>. Many Christians don\u2019t believe you can HEAR but it\u2019s not that you actually audibly hear. <strong><u>Or that believers receive power.<\/u><\/strong> Much of the church doesn\u2019t believe that! How about <strong><u>receiving a language<\/u><\/strong> that we may not fully understand? There are a lot of things of the Spirit that we just plain don\u2019t understand. <strong><u>How can simply praying a prayer<\/u><\/strong> give us the right to go to heaven? <strong><u>How can simply asking to be forgiven<\/u><\/strong> wipe us clean of every sin we have or will ever commit? <strong><u>How can the most despicable person pray a prayer<\/u><\/strong> and be absolved of all his wrongdoing and be given the right to go to heaven <strong><u>while some of the sweetest people<\/u><\/strong>\u2014kind, considerate, understanding\u2014never found the need to pray the prayer and lose that right and spend eternity in hell? <strong><u>How does that make sense to us?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>YET it seems the<\/u><\/strong> <strong><u>more in depth we go<\/u><\/strong> <strong><u>in the things of the Spirit<\/u><\/strong>, the more there comes a clarity that begins to make sense of that which doesn\u2019t make sense! <strong><u>Does that make sense?<\/u><\/strong> <strong>It\u2019s like when you tell a Christian who is seeking direction, <\/strong>\u201cWhy don\u2019t you ask the Holy Spirit, who is the Spirit of truth, what\u2019s the truth because He loves to tell the truth?\u201d and they look at you like you have some marbles loose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BOTTOM LINE: <\/strong>We don\u2019t have to fully understand it to operate in it&#8230;but somehow through the Spirit, the more we operate in it, the more we understand it. <strong>That is called being led by the Spirit!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of things Christians receive that we don\u2019t fully understand. Like a mark of Redemption. Many people don\u2019t know what that means. Gifts to be able to hear. Many Christians don\u2019t believe you can HEAR but it\u2019s not that you actually audibly hear. Or that believers receive power. Much of the church &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bwbministries.com\/?p=2205\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Does That Make Sense?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ministrynotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bwbministries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bwbministries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bwbministries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bwbministries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bwbministries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bwbministries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2206,"href":"http:\/\/www.bwbministries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions\/2206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bwbministries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bwbministries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bwbministries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}