{"id":46719,"date":"2022-10-01T02:31:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/satans-beatitudes-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:31:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:31:09","slug":"satans-beatitudes-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/satans-beatitudes-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Satan&#039;s Beatitudes &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the devil were to write his Beatitudes, they would probably go something like this (links added by Mike Riley):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blessed are those who are too tired, too busy, too distracted to spend an hour once a week with their fellow Christians  they are my best workers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Blessed are those Christians who wait to be asked and expect to be thanked  I can use them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Blessed are the touchy. With a bit of luck, they may stop going to church  they are my missionaries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Blessed are the troublemakers  they shall be called my children.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Blessed are the complainers  Im all ears to them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Blessed are they who are bored with the ministers mannerisms and mistakes  for they get nothing out of his sermons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Blessed is the church member who expects to be invited to his own church  for he is a part of the problem instead of the solution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Blessed are they who gossip  for they shall cause strife and divisions that please me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Blessed are they who are easily offended  for they will soon get angry and quit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Blessed are they who do not give their offering to carry on God&#8217;s work  for they are my helpers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Blessed is he who professes to love God but hates his brother and sister  for he shall be with me forever.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Blessed are you when you read this and think it is about other people and not yourself  Ive got you. (source).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dan McKibben<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the devil were to write his Beatitudes, they would probably go something like this (links added by Mike Riley): Blessed are those who are too tired, too busy, too distracted to spend an hour once a week with their fellow Christians they are my best workers. Blessed are those Christians who wait to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/satans-beatitudes-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Satan&#039;s Beatitudes &#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-46719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46719","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=46719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}