{"id":46214,"date":"2022-10-01T02:15:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/are-we-a-sinner-or-the-man-the-light-shines-through-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:15:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:15:26","slug":"are-we-a-sinner-or-the-man-the-light-shines-through-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/are-we-a-sinner-or-the-man-the-light-shines-through-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Are We A Sinner Or &#8220;The Man The Light Shines Through?&#8221; &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irish writer and poet Oscar Wilde once remarked, <strong><em>I can resist anything but temptation<\/em><\/strong> (source). He obviously understood human weakness and frailty. The follower of Christ who yields to temptation, soon becomes separated from God (Isaiah 59:1-2). He or she is then classified as one who has missed the mark (Strongs 266)  a sinner (1 John 3:4).<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, a little child once overheard his parents talking about one of the figures in a stained glass window of a church building. He curiously asked them if they were referring to <strong><em>the man the light shines through?<\/em><\/strong> His child-like remark was an imaginative description of a saint (Matthew 5:14-16).<\/p>\n<p>Do our lives exhibit the characteristics of the world (1 John 2:15-16), or a clarity of purpose and sacrificial love as Jesus did? (Luke 19:9-10; Romans 5:6).<\/p>\n<p>Are we a sinner or <strong><em>the man the light shines through?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lets think about it!<\/strong> And then make any necessary character adjustments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irish writer and poet Oscar Wilde once remarked, I can resist anything but temptation (source). He obviously understood human weakness and frailty. The follower of Christ who yields to temptation, soon becomes separated from God (Isaiah 59:1-2). He or she is then classified as one who has missed the mark (Strongs 266) a sinner (1 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/are-we-a-sinner-or-the-man-the-light-shines-through-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are We A Sinner Or &#8220;The Man The Light Shines Through?&#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-46214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46214","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=46214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}