{"id":900,"date":"2021-04-23T19:04:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T19:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=900"},"modified":"2021-04-23T19:04:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T19:04:19","slug":"stand-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=900","title":{"rendered":"\u201cStand Firm\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBrother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.\u00a0Everyone will hate you because of me,\u00a0but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.\u201d Mark 13: 12-13\u00a0<\/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\">These are the toughest times I\u2019ve ever lived in and I\u2019ve been here seventy-four years. The world is upside down. Governments, ethnic groups, and even families are at odds with one another. People are praying for Jesus to return, but unfortunately if He did, we would probably betray Him and kill Him again. He doesn\u2019t appear to be coming back right now, but when He does, those who stood firm will be saved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Satan is having his day, but that will end. The good news is that there are lines being drawn in the sand that clearly show which side folks are on. We can be swept away by untruth and false prophets or we can stand with Jesus.<\/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\">Am I still on the fence or have I made a choice to stand on the side of God?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God Word \u201cBrother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.\u00a0Everyone will hate you because of me,\u00a0but the one who stands firm to the end &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=900\">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-900","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\/900","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=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}