{"id":36917,"date":"2022-09-13T13:16:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/should-christians-do-exploits-should-they-scheme-and-plot-to-get-their-ways\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:16:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:16:13","slug":"should-christians-do-exploits-should-they-scheme-and-plot-to-get-their-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/should-christians-do-exploits-should-they-scheme-and-plot-to-get-their-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Christians do exploits? Should they scheme and plot to get their ways?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>An exploit is to take advantage of or to act meanly or unjustly for one&rsquo;s own advantage.&nbsp; Did Christ teach His followers to scheme to get ahead? No! Galatians 6:7, 8 states, &ldquo;Do not be deceived. . . whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.&nbsp; For the one who <strong>sows to his own flesh shall <\/strong>from the flesh <strong>reap corruption<\/strong>, but the one who sows to the Spirit shall from the Spirit reap eternal life.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Doing exploits, <strong>scheming and plotting to get our own way is sowing to the flesh<\/strong>&mdash;something the Christian is <strong>not supposed to do<\/strong> as demonstrated in the above scripture.&nbsp; God and Jesus want us to have our mind and heart set on things above, not on things of this earth (Colossians 3:2).&nbsp; Jesus did not come to this earth to accumulate wealth or to get his own way.&nbsp; Jesus never lied, not even to further his own cause.&nbsp; He came to learn first-hand of man&rsquo;s experiences, to preach the Gospel to mankind and find followers that would be likeminded, and to die on the cross to redeem all mankind.&nbsp; As an adult, Jesus did not amass wealth, buy a house, find a wife and start a family.&nbsp; He stayed with friends and family when he was in town.&nbsp; <strong>He had no material possessions<\/strong> to call his own (Matthew 8:20). &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jesus specifically tells us in Matthew 16:24 &ldquo;If any one wishes to come after Me, let him <strong>deny<\/strong> <strong>himself<\/strong>, and take up his cross, and follow Me.&rdquo;&nbsp; This statement is the <strong>complete opposite of doing exploits<\/strong>, or scheming and plotting to get our own way.&nbsp; If the scheming behavior is what we want to do, then we are disobeying the Lord. Schemers should not call themselves Christians because they <strong>are not <\/strong>following Christ.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exploit is to take advantage of or to act meanly or unjustly for one&rsquo;s own advantage.&nbsp; Did Christ teach His followers to scheme to get ahead? No! Galatians 6:7, 8 states, &ldquo;Do not be deceived. . . whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.&nbsp; For the one who sows to his own &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/should-christians-do-exploits-should-they-scheme-and-plot-to-get-their-ways\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Should Christians do exploits? Should they scheme and plot to get their ways?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}