{"id":47162,"date":"2022-10-01T02:44:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/jesus-and-the-man-in-the-pit-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:44:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:44:47","slug":"jesus-and-the-man-in-the-pit-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/jesus-and-the-man-in-the-pit-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus And The Man In The Pit &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was once a man who fell into a pit and couldnt get himself out.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A <strong>Subjective<\/strong> person came along and said, I feel for you down there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>An <strong>Objective<\/strong> person came along and said, Its logical that someone would fall down there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A <strong>Pharisee<\/strong> said, Only bad people fall into a pit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A <strong>Mathematician<\/strong> calculated how he fell into the pit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A <strong>News Reporter<\/strong> wanted the exclusive story on his pit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A <strong>Fundamentalist<\/strong> said, You deserve your pit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>An <strong>I.R.S. agent<\/strong> asked if he was paying taxes on the pit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A <strong>Self-pitying<\/strong> person said, You havent seen anything until youve seen my pit!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A <strong>Charismatic<\/strong> said, Just confess that youre not in the pit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>An <strong>Optimist <\/strong>said, Things could be worse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A <strong>Pessimist<\/strong> said, Things will get worse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>But <strong>Jesus<\/strong>, seeing the man, took him by the hand and lifted him out of the pit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Brethren and friends, when we stumble and fall into the corrupting pit of sin, rest assured that we can rely on Jesus to take us by the hand and lift us out of the pit, if we will be obedient to His will (Psalm 40:1-2; Matthew 7:21; Romans 6:17).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was once a man who fell into a pit and couldnt get himself out. A Subjective person came along and said, I feel for you down there. An Objective person came along and said, Its logical that someone would fall down there. A Pharisee said, Only bad people fall into a pit. A Mathematician &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/jesus-and-the-man-in-the-pit-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jesus And The Man In The Pit &#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-47162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47162","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=47162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}