{"id":497,"date":"2007-12-19T05:32:49","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T14:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=497"},"modified":"2007-12-19T05:38:18","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T14:38:18","slug":"the-real-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2007\/the-real-enemy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Enemy"},"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 22:47-53<\/font><br \/>\n<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>This piece of verse 53 is impressive to me:<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.&#8221;<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>One impression: There is an appointed time for everything.<\/p>\n<p>Another impression: Jesus&#8217; real enemy was not any human but Satan, the power of darkness. (If I see people as my enemies, I&#8217;ll be fighting the wrong battles and will be very vulnerable to my real enemy.)<\/p>\n<p>Last impression: Their time had finally come&#8230;and it overlapped with that of Satan. Oh wow! Sometimes we wait for our &#8220;chance&#8221; &#8212; when it comes, let&#8217;s don&#8217;t allow our use of it to overlap with Satan&#8217;s use of it.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know what I mean with that last impression? Just in case, I&#8217;ll restate it this way: <b>Don&#8217;t help the Devil accomplish his purposes!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/touchedhisear-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/touchedhisear-s.jpg\" alt=\"[He touched his ear, and healed him (Luke 22:51)]\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><i>from Luke 22:51<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>A little bit more from Luke 22:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/cgi-bin\/webbbs\/lift\/lift.cgi?read=8278\"><font color=green>Please. Not I!<\/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 22:47-53 This piece of verse 53 is impressive to me: &#8220;But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.&#8221; One impression: There is an appointed time for everything. Another impression: Jesus&#8217; real enemy was not any human but Satan, the power of darkness. (If I see people as my enemies, I&#8217;ll be [&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-497","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-81","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","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=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}