The story is told of an English “gentleman of the road” (we would call him a hobo) who stopped by a restaurant named the “Saint George and the Dragon.” Because he was hungry, he knocked at the back door and asked if he might have a bite of some leftovers to eat.<\/p>\n
A very stern lady looked the fellow in the eye and said, “I’ll not give you one crumb you’re a fit fellow get yourself a job, you bum!” And then to punctuate her point, she slammed the door in the Englishman’s face.<\/p>\n
The shabbily dressed Englishman stood looking at the establishment’s sign for a moment and then knocked again. The door opened and the same stern lady asked in a hateful voice, “Well, what is it you want now?”<\/p>\n
“I was just wondering,” he said, “could I please talk to Saint George<\/strong> this time?”<\/p>\n Unfortunately, we all must face a few “dragons” in our life. Sometimes we work with them sometimes they are relatives and then sometimes we are the dragons!<\/strong><\/p>\n What makes the dragon appear in us? Is it petty problems, real or imagined slights, jealousy, insults, someone cheating us someone rubbing us the wrong way? Do we truly like ourselves when the dragon appears? More than likely, we do not.<\/p>\n There’s a biblical formula for slaying those dragons it goes something like this:<\/p>\n “Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another” (Romans 12:10 – NKJV).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n When this formula is employed, those dragons will disappear every time!<\/p>\n Related Article:<\/strong><\/p>\n The story is told of an English “gentleman of the road” (we would call him a hobo) who stopped by a restaurant named the “Saint George and the Dragon.” Because he was hungry, he knocked at the back door and asked if he might have a bite of some leftovers to eat. A very stern … Continue reading “Getting Rid Of The Dragons – Bible study”<\/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-45291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45291","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=45291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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