{"id":893,"date":"2021-03-21T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T00:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=893"},"modified":"2021-03-21T00:01:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T00:01:09","slug":"hypocrites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=893","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHypocrites\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cJesus asked them,\u00a0\u201cWhose image is this? And whose inscription?\u201d \u201cCaesar\u2019s,\u201d they replied. Then he said to them,\u00a0\u201cSo give to Caesar what is Caesar\u2019s,\u00a0and to God what is God\u2019s.\u201d Matthew 22: 20-21<\/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\">This scripture seems to be appropriate for anyone who speaks the truth these days. Jesus words of truth angered the Herodians and the Pharisees. The Herodians saw Jesus teachings opposed to their interests. The Pharisees didn\u2019t believe that Christ was the Messiah. Both wanted to destroy Him. \u201cBut Jesus, aware of their malice, said, \u2018Why put me to the test, you hypocrites? Matthew 22:18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If we tell the truth today, we could come under attack by more than one or two groups. It could cost us a career or everything we\u2019ve worked for. I think my actions should speak louder than my words. Except for my own blog, I\u2019m no longer connected to any of the social media platforms. I\u2019m spending more of my time in prayer and scripture. It\u2019s the one place the truth can still be found and then lived out. It\u2019s also the best way for me to avoid being a hypocrite.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What areas of my life are hypocritical?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God Word \u201cJesus asked them,\u00a0\u201cWhose image is this? And whose inscription?\u201d \u201cCaesar\u2019s,\u201d they replied. Then he said to them,\u00a0\u201cSo give to Caesar what is Caesar\u2019s,\u00a0and to God what is God\u2019s.\u201d Matthew 22: 20-21 Applying God\u2019s Word This scripture seems &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=893\">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-893","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\/893","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=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}