{"id":45391,"date":"2022-10-01T01:49:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/our-outward-man-is-perishing-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T01:49:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:49:16","slug":"our-outward-man-is-perishing-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/our-outward-man-is-perishing-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Our Outward Man Is Perishing&#8221; &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a ten-year-old boy, I used to be able to easily jump over a three-foot high chain link fence. I would walk up to that fence, put my hand on the fence post and nimbly jump it.<\/p>\n<p>But as I grow older, I not only cannot jump that three-foot high fence any longer, there are some other strange things happening to me as well such as:<\/p>\n<p>Print in the Bible is getting much smaller; the light is dimmer; highway signs are more blurry; hills are steeper; belts are shorter; and shoes are moving farther away (shades of Ecclesiastes 12:1-7).<\/p>\n<p>The apostle Paul must have alluded to some similar experiences, when he stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;<strong><em>Therefore we do not lose heart even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;(2 Corinthians 4:16).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>With regards to my getting older, I know Paul&#8217;s former statement in the above passage is true, and I pray to God daily that the latter statement is too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The &#8220;Inward Man&#8221;  A Question<\/li>\n<li>Our Content  Of Far Greater Importance Than Our Cover<\/li>\n<li>The Biblical Perspective Of Growing Old<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Walk Before The Lord&#8221; &#8211; Even In Old Age<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a ten-year-old boy, I used to be able to easily jump over a three-foot high chain link fence. I would walk up to that fence, put my hand on the fence post and nimbly jump it. But as I grow older, I not only cannot jump that three-foot high fence any longer, there are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/our-outward-man-is-perishing-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Our Outward Man Is Perishing&#8221; &#8211; Bible study&#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-45391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45391","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=45391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}