{"id":282,"date":"2016-05-25T02:26:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T09:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=282"},"modified":"2016-05-25T02:26:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T09:26:17","slug":"brood-of-vipers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/25\/brood-of-vipers\/","title":{"rendered":"Brood of Vipers"},"content":{"rendered":"

And even when you saw it, you did not afterward change your minds and believe him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I am at a loss to describe all of the thoughts that come to me about this, especially the comment “I go, Sir”. \u00a0How many times do I say in my heart “I will follow you Lord” or “I give all of me and what I have to you” or “From this day forward I will….? \u00a0In the end I give little or no effort to the commitment. \u00a0Why is this? \u00a0Don’t I long to be a good son of the heavenly father? Don’t I want to bring honor and glory to Him? \u00a0If I am truthful much of the time me, myself and I have conflicting interests. It is not that I lose focus but rather chose my self interests over living to honor and glorify God. \u00a0If my standards are set by what the culture expects from me rather than looking to God’s holiness it is very easy to slip into a state of mind where I give lip service and know committed action. \u00a0God Forgive Me<\/p>\n

Matthew 21:28
\n\u201cWhat do you think? A man had two sons. And he went to the first and said, \u2018Son, go and work in the vineyard today. \u2019 And he answered, \u2018I will not,\u2019 but afterward he changed his mind and went.<\/strong> And he went to the other son and said the same. And he answered, \u2018I go, sir,\u2019 but did not go. Which of the two did the will of his father?\u201d They said, \u201cThe first.\u201d Jesus said to them, \u201cTruly, I say to you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes go into the kingdom of God before you. For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward change your minds and believe him.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Luke 3:7
\nHe said therefore to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, \u201cYou brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruits in keeping with repentance.<\/strong> And do not begin to say to yourselves, \u2018We have Abraham as our father. \u2019 For I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And even when you saw it, you did not afterward change your minds and believe him. I am at a loss to describe all of the thoughts that come to me about this, especially the comment “I go, Sir”. \u00a0How many times do I say in my heart “I will follow you Lord” or “I … Continue reading “Brood of Vipers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[380,382,381,383],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-bear-fruit","tag-believe-him","tag-change-your-minds","tag-way-of-righteousness"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}