{"id":45472,"date":"2022-10-01T01:51:48","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/no-drinking-allowed-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T01:51:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:51:48","slug":"no-drinking-allowed-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/no-drinking-allowed-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;No Drinking Allowed&#8221; &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Theres a sign on a local business establishment here in El Paso, that has printed in large letters, the following message:<\/p>\n<p><strong>No Loitering or Drinking Allowed On These Premises.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As I was recently bringing my groceries out of a grocery store a few doors down from this business establishment, I noticed that there were some customers outside the building laughing aloud at the sign, <strong>because the sign is on the outside wall of a liquor store!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brethren and friends, can we imagine a sign on a library that read, No Reading Allowed On These Premises, or a shoe store with a sign reading, No Walking Allowed, or on a music store with a sign reading, No Playing or Singing Allowed, or a florist sign reading, No Flowers Allowed On These Premises?<\/p>\n<p>Isnt there something terribly wrong with any business establishment, <strong>when the product it is selling to customers, leads to behavior that cannot be tolerated on its own premises?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And have we also ever wondered why we see beer cans assaulting the beauty of Gods countryside? Doesnt this speak volumes about <strong>the attitude behind the hand<\/strong> that first opens the beer can, tips it until its dry, then carelessly flings it in the face of Gods created landscape?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let&#8217;s think about it!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theres a sign on a local business establishment here in El Paso, that has printed in large letters, the following message: No Loitering or Drinking Allowed On These Premises. As I was recently bringing my groceries out of a grocery store a few doors down from this business establishment, I noticed that there were some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/no-drinking-allowed-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;No Drinking Allowed&#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-45472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45472","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=45472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}