{"id":1301,"date":"2025-11-06T04:23:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T04:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2025-11-06T04:23:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T04:23:31","slug":"face-to-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1301","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFace to Face\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnd He said:\u00a0\u201cTruly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children,\u00a0you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.\u201d Matthew 18:3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What will it really take for me to enter the kingdom of heaven? When I think about the innocence and purity of a child, the word \u201cPurification\u201d comes to my mind. Now let\u2019s be real, I\u2019m a sinner saved by God\u2019s grace and the process of purification is impossible without His grace. In a perfect world I would have Jesus and the Holy Spirit present in my life 24\/7. I\u2019m far from perfect, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I age, I do find myself sinning less, but I realize that I probably won\u2019t be without sin when I die. The Lord knows this, right? So, what do I say when I come face to face with my Lord? He already knows the good, the bad and the ugly about me. If I\u2019m able to speak at all, I hope to say, \u201cLord, you lived and died for me. I\u2019ve tried my best to live and die for you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u00a0<strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have I begun the process of purification? What will I say when I come face to face with God?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cAnd He said:\u00a0\u201cTruly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children,\u00a0you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.\u201d Matthew 18:3 Applying God\u2019s Word What will it really take for me to enter the kingdom &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1301\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-of-the-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}