{"id":2004,"date":"2014-10-10T07:46:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T14:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=2004"},"modified":"2014-10-10T07:46:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T14:46:39","slug":"you-cannot-serve-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2014\/you-cannot-serve-god\/","title":{"rendered":"You Cannot Serve God"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lectura\">Reading:<\/p>\n<h3>Joshua 24<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>God invites us to serve Him, but <strong>on His terms<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>God expects His people to <strong>improve from one generation to the next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Stand for God no matter who stands against Him or who doesn&#8217;t stand with you.<\/p>\n<p>After all that God has done for me, <strong>how could I forsake Him?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"wallpaper\"><a href=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/stablished-in-the-faith.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/stablished-in-the-faith.jpg\" alt=\"The Scriptures say in Colossians 2:7 -- stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught\" title=\"Rooted and built up in Him\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em style=\"font-size:80%\">&#8220;Rooted and built up in him&#8221; (Colossians 2:7)<\/em><\/div>\n<p> <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It is good for congregations to periodically renew their vows to serve and obey the Lord.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t be of the generation that neglects to tell<\/strong> the next generation about God and His works for His people (including you)!<\/p>\n<p>My generation&#8217;s faithfulness is no guarantee that my children&#8217;s generation won&#8217;t do evil in the sight of the Lord.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:silver\">I first published these last night in my almost-weekly email <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/neo\/groups\/thoughts4week\/conversations\/messages\/633\" title=\"Thoughts for the Week | prepare for life and for Sunday School\">Sunday School commentary Thoughts for the Week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:silver\">You can receive those emails by subscribing (of course). Do so by sending a blank email to <a href=\"mailto:thoughts4week-subscribe@yahoogroups.com\">thoughts4week-subscribe@yahoogroups.com<\/a>.<\/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>Not on your terms<!-- 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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[55],"tags":[51,46,31],"class_list":{"0":"post-2004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-joshua","7":"tag-discipleship","8":"tag-obedience","9":"tag-way-of-righteousness","10":"h-entry","11":"hentry","12":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-wk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004","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=2004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}