{"id":475,"date":"2007-10-27T08:04:24","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T15:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=475"},"modified":"2007-10-27T08:07:05","modified_gmt":"2007-10-27T15:07:05","slug":"which-am-i-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2007\/which-am-i-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Am I Like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=130 border=0 cellpadding=10 cellspacing=0 bgcolor=\"#003300\" align=right align=texttop>\n<tr>\n<td><b><font color=\"#339933\">Reading:<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">Luke 15:1-10<\/font><br \/>\n<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (2).<\/p>\n<p>How do I react to the scribes and Pharisees? If my heart response is contempt (because of how they were) or pride (because I&#8217;m not as they were) or self-satisfaction (because I think I don&#8217;t have either attitude), I don&#8217;t see how I&#8217;m better than they.<\/p>\n<p>They looked down on certain people (publicans and sinners). Am I any different if I look down on certain people (Pharisees and scribes)?<\/p>\n<p>Well, I don&#8217;t want to be like the Pharisees and scribes.<\/p>\n<p>I do want to be one who draws near <b><font color=brown>&#8220;to hear him&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (1).<\/p>\n<p>And I certainly want to be like This Man.<\/p>\n<p>But which <i>am<\/i> I like, right now?<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/inthepresence-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/inthepresence-s.jpg\" alt=\"[Joy in the presence of the angels of God (Luke 15:10)]\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><i>from Luke 15:10<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>A little bit more from Luke 15:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/cgi-bin\/webbbs\/lift\/lift.cgi?read=8190\"><font color=green>There I&#8217;m Safe Again<\/font><\/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>Reading: Luke 15:1-10 &#8220;And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them&#8221; (2). How do I react to the scribes and Pharisees? If my heart response is contempt (because of how they were) or pride (because I&#8217;m not as they were) or self-satisfaction (because I think I don&#8217;t have [&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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-luke","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-7F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","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=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}