{"id":47040,"date":"2022-10-01T02:40:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/character-counts-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:40:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:40:58","slug":"character-counts-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/character-counts-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Character Counts! &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, philosopher and poet once stated, &#8220;The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops  no, but the kind of man the country turns out&#8221; (source).<\/p>\n<p>How true a statement this is. The quality and character of a country is dependent on the kind of man it turns out.<\/p>\n<p>The Proverb writer tells us:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Righteousness exalts a nation, But sin is a reproach to any people<\/strong>&#8221; (Proverbs 14:34).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The inspired writer Peter must have known this truth from Proverbs, when he stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>But in every nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him<\/strong>&#8221; (Acts 10:35).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Brethren and friends, the bottom line in all of this: <strong>Character Counts!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Let&#8217;s think about it! <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, philosopher and poet once stated, &#8220;The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops no, but the kind of man the country turns out&#8221; (source). How true a statement this is. The quality and character of a country is dependent on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/character-counts-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Character Counts! &#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-47040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47040","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=47040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}