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Did you ever notice how Jesus never disparaged people by name?<\/p>\n
And how He was obedient when it came to civil authority?<\/p>\n
Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, He said without complaint. His Kingdom was not of this world. This world is a fallen one. It is why we detach from it.<\/p>\n
The Pharisees and Sadduccees were another story: these the Lord castigated for their harsh legalism, their pretense of holiness. They served the letter of the law but not its spirit.<\/p>\n
Whatever does not redound to love is hypocrisy.<\/p>\n
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The other question: if Jesus did not disparage people by name, how can those who enlist in a religion that professes to follow Him disparage others?<\/p>\n
These are interesting questions to ponder at a time when obviously the Lord wants us — and is giving us the time — to ponder many things.<\/p>\n
There is also this quote:<\/p>\n
“Weak minds discuss people; average minds discuss events; strong minds discuss ideas.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n That comes to us from or at least is attributed to Socrates.<\/p>\n If you head for a lake or the ocean, watch the waves and remember that whether in the water or in daily life, the key is to ride them.<\/p>\n Did you ever notice how Jesus never disparaged people by name? And how He was obedient when it came to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-inspiration","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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