{"id":46127,"date":"2022-10-01T02:12:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/hazardous-extremes-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:12:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:12:39","slug":"hazardous-extremes-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/hazardous-extremes-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Hazardous Extremes – Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great prosperity and severe poverty are both hazardous extremes, for they can equally cause major spiritual problems (1 Timothy 6:8-10; cf. Luke 12:16-21).<\/p>\n

Agur, the writer of Proverbs 30, must have known of this danger when he prayed:<\/p>\n

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Remove falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches feed me with the food allotted to me; lest I be full and deny You, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor and steal, and profane the name of my God<\/strong><\/em> (Proverbs 30:8-9).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Instead of always asking and seeking for more and more, perhaps we too should seek the balance expressed in the above proverb.<\/p>\n

Contentment is realizing that God will provide us all that we need no matter what our circumstances might be (Matthew 6:7-8; 2 Corinthians 9:8 NLT; Philippians 4:11).<\/p>\n

Lets think about it!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Great prosperity and severe poverty are both hazardous extremes, for they can equally cause major spiritual problems (1 Timothy 6:8-10; cf. Luke 12:16-21). Agur, the writer of Proverbs 30, must have known of this danger when he prayed: Remove falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches feed me with the … Continue reading “Hazardous Extremes – 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-46127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46127","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=46127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}