{"id":121,"date":"2006-01-17T06:29:02","date_gmt":"2006-01-17T14:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=121"},"modified":"2006-09-04T07:06:54","modified_gmt":"2006-09-04T13:06:54","slug":"enemies-what-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2006\/enemies-what-enemies\/","title":{"rendered":"Enemies? What Enemies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (Psalm 6:10).<\/p>\n<p>Yes! Yes!! That sounds like a winner to me.<\/p>\n<p>At least it did when I first read over it.<\/p>\n<p>I thought of a certain person. But no, that person isn&#8217;t my enemy. Maybe he&#8217;s just an adversary (I don&#8217;t know the fine difference between <i>enemy<\/i> and <i>adversary<\/i>). Well, maybe he&#8217;s merely a detractor. Then again, perhaps he&#8217;s a concerned friend who simply needs to do better at expressing himself.<\/p>\n<p>Enemy, adversary, detractor &#8212; whichever he is, God may well need to apply that verse to him. That&#8217;s not my business.<\/p>\n<p>But this is:<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (Matthew 5:44).<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly&#8221; (Psalm 6:10). Yes! Yes!! That sounds like a winner to me. At least it did when I first read over it. I thought of a certain person. But no, that person isn&#8217;t my enemy. Maybe he&#8217;s just an adversary [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-psalms","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-1X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}