{"id":1387,"date":"2017-07-24T19:20:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T19:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2017-07-27T18:10:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T18:10:15","slug":"jesus-commandments-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/?p=1387","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Commandments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/?attachment_id=1393\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1393\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DENY-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DENY-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DENY.jpg 688w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><b>2. The Command to \u201cFollow\u201d<\/b><br \/>\n<i>\u201cJesus called out to them, \u201cCome, follow me, and I will show you how to fish for people!\u201d (NLT, Matthew 4:19).<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Once we truly repent and throw off the shackles of pride and self-reliance, we must choose to follow Christ.  It is a day to day, sometimes minute to minute, continuous struggle between the old self and the new, reborn self.  In Matthew 16, <i>\u201c\u2026 Jesus said to his disciples, &#8220;If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross, and follow me. \u201c (Matthew 16:24) <\/i><\/p>\n<p>What Would Jesus Do? (WWJD)\u201d becomes our motto.  Not merely a pithy slogan, it becomes the real guiding criteria by which we base all of our choices and decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2. The Command to \u201cFollow\u201d \u201cJesus called out to them, \u201cCome, follow me, and I will show you how to fish for people!\u201d (NLT, Matthew 4:19). Once we truly repent and throw off the shackles of pride and self-reliance, we must choose to follow Christ. It is a day to day, sometimes minute to minute, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[248,250,118,249],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worship","tag-commandments","tag-follow","tag-jesus","tag-repent"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfZYJd-mn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1405,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}