{"id":37384,"date":"2022-09-13T13:36:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/how-much-must-one-forsake-to-follow-the-lord\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:36:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:36:17","slug":"how-much-must-one-forsake-to-follow-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/how-much-must-one-forsake-to-follow-the-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"How much must one forsake to follow the Lord?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>When the ruler asked Jesus what he must do to inherit eternal life, Jesus replied that he must forsake all to follow after Him (Luke 18:18-30). If truly following after the Lord, we should consider all our time, talent, money, influence, etc&hellip;as belonging to God. It is up to us as stewards of that which now rightly belongs to God to use these various &#039;talents&#039; wisely in his service (Mat. 25:14-30).<\/p>\n<p>Forsaking all, however, does not mean that God wishes us to sacrifice things which rightly belongs to others. If we have a spouse, children or other family that depends on us for their daily needs, it would be wrong to not provide things needful for their health and welfare (1 Tim. 5:8).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the ruler asked Jesus what he must do to inherit eternal life, Jesus replied that he must forsake all to follow after Him (Luke 18:18-30). If truly following after the Lord, we should consider all our time, talent, money, influence, etc&hellip;as belonging to God. It is up to us as stewards of that which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/how-much-must-one-forsake-to-follow-the-lord\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How much must one forsake to follow the Lord?&#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-37384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37384","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=37384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}