{"id":46788,"date":"2022-10-01T02:33:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/nothing-less-than-our-best-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:33:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:33:13","slug":"nothing-less-than-our-best-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/nothing-less-than-our-best-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing Less Than Our Best &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, we live in a society today where the quantity of a product is emphasized over quality. In trying to cut costs, many companies are sacrificing quality and using second-hand or even defective materials.<\/p>\n<p>The story is told of Henry Royce, co-founder of the Rolls-Royce Limited (founded in 1906), who was one day walking through his factory, when he overheard a lathe operator say, Oh, thatll do. He then observed the man tossing a part into a basket. To the casual observer, the part looked okay, but Henry Royce expected his workmen to use a micrometer and be satisfied with nothing less than precision accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>So when Mr. Royce heard the comment, he reprimanded the man by saying, That may do for anyone else, but it will not do for Rolls-Royce.<\/p>\n<p>God is satisfied with nothing less than perfection. Divine specifications do not allow for any flaws. Jesus illustrated this in Matthew 5:21-48 when He said to His listeners, You have heard (the human standard). Then He said, But I say to you (Gods standard).<\/p>\n<p>He highlighted the perfection by which Gods children should stand out from the crowd by focusing on the following six issues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anger (Matthew 5:21-22).<\/li>\n<li>Sexual purity (Matthew 5:27-30).<\/li>\n<li>Marital fidelity (Matthew 5:31-32).<\/li>\n<li>Honesty in speech (Matthew 5:33-37).<\/li>\n<li>Non-retaliation (Matthew 5:38-42).<\/li>\n<li>Treatment of enemies (Matthew 5:43-48).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Brethren, <strong>lets give the Lord nothing less than our best! <\/strong>(cf. Mark 12:41-44; 2 Corinthians 8:1-5).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, we live in a society today where the quantity of a product is emphasized over quality. In trying to cut costs, many companies are sacrificing quality and using second-hand or even defective materials. The story is told of Henry Royce, co-founder of the Rolls-Royce Limited (founded in 1906), who was one day walking through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/nothing-less-than-our-best-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nothing Less Than Our Best &#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-46788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46788","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=46788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}