{"id":45826,"date":"2022-10-01T02:03:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/the-only-option-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:03:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:03:04","slug":"the-only-option-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/the-only-option-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"The Only Option &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we were to ask several people to draw a crooked line on a piece of paper, no two lines would be identical. The lesson is: There are many ways to be crooked, but only <strong>one way<\/strong> to be straight (cf. Matthew 7:13-14 KJV).<\/p>\n<p>The Lord tells us that the righteous person has only one option to &#8220;<strong>live by his faith<\/strong>&#8221; (Habakkuk 2:4). In Habakkuk 1, the prophet Habakkuk had complained about the violence and injustice around him. It seemed as if the wicked were swallowing up the righteous (Habakkuk 1:13).<\/p>\n<p>God responded to Habakkuk by saying that His people were to be &#8220;just&#8221; and were to live by faith. They were not to be like the one who is &#8220;proud&#8221; and &#8220;not upright&#8221; (Habakkuk 2:4). A proud and self-sufficient person will rationalize his faults and imperfections. He doesn&#8217;t want to admit that he needs God. His ways are crooked.<\/p>\n<p>Wickedness seems to prevail in our world. God urges us to live our lives in faith, taking to heart His assurance to Habakkuk that there will be a day of reckoning for the wicked (Habakkuk 1:12).<\/p>\n<p>Brethren, the only option we have to please God now, and to be ready for that day of reckoning, is to <strong>live by faith<\/strong> (Romans 1:17; Gal. 3:11; Hebrews 10:38).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we were to ask several people to draw a crooked line on a piece of paper, no two lines would be identical. The lesson is: There are many ways to be crooked, but only one way to be straight (cf. Matthew 7:13-14 KJV). The Lord tells us that the righteous person has only one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/the-only-option-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Only Option &#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-45826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45826","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=45826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}