{"id":175,"date":"2006-04-08T06:16:57","date_gmt":"2006-04-08T14:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=175"},"modified":"2009-03-27T08:45:34","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T16:45:34","slug":"bought-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2006\/bought-gods\/","title":{"rendered":"Bought. God&#8217;s."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sold!&#8221; With that shout and the crash of the auctioneer&#8217;s hammer, one&#8217;s life became another&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>That slave had to live to the glory, pleasure, and benefit of the master. Generally speaking, being a slave was not his choice. That condition was imposed on him.<\/p>\n<p>Is that the relationship God wants with me?<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God&#8217;s&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (1 Corinthians 6:20).<\/p>\n<p>It could sound that way. But, no, God doesn&#8217;t not want us as slaves who have no say in the relationship.<\/p>\n<p>God wants me to <i>choose<\/i> total surrender to Him &#8212; out of love, out of gratitude for what He has done and wants to do for me.<\/p>\n<p>Does He see me as one who is His and who glorifies Him with his body and spirit?<\/p>\n<p>If so, He rejoices. If not, He grieves.<\/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;Sold!&#8221; With that shout and the crash of the auctioneer&#8217;s hammer, one&#8217;s life became another&#8217;s. That slave had to live to the glory, pleasure, and benefit of the master. Generally speaking, being a slave was not his choice. That condition was imposed on him. Is that the relationship God wants with me? &#8220;For ye are [&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":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-1-corinthians","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-2P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","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=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}