{"id":9926,"date":"2016-08-17T00:50:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/heroworship-celebrities\/"},"modified":"2016-08-17T00:50:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:50:31","slug":"heroworship-celebrities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/heroworship-celebrities\/","title":{"rendered":"HERO\nWORSHIP; CELEBRITIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>I am sure that if we all saw God bigger, we would see people smaller. This is the day of the magnification of slick personalities, and as we magnify men, we minimize God.\u2026 We have whole meetings go by in which we never see God at all\u2014we only see His servants. And the curlier the hair of the servant, the more we see the servant. And if he\u2019s been pardoned from murdering his grandmother\u2019s aunt, we magnify him still more. And if he\u2019s been half-converted from movie acting, we magnify him still more.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>We always have some big wheel that we are down in front of, kissing the toe of. Then we wonder why the Holy Spirit doesn\u2019t bless us.\u2026 There is an awful lot of hero worship in the church of Christ.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Psalm 34:3; 2 Corinthians 4:5\u20137; 1 Thessalonians 2:4\u20136<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><i>Success and the Christian,<\/i> 37, 38.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure that if we all saw God bigger, we would see people smaller. This is the day of the magnification of slick personalities, and as we magnify men, we minimize God.\u2026 We have whole meetings go by in which we never see God at all\u2014we only see His servants. And the curlier the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/heroworship-celebrities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HERO<br \/>\nWORSHIP; CELEBRITIES&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9926","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=9926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}