{"id":1412,"date":"2017-08-02T15:03:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T15:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2017-08-02T15:16:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T15:16:37","slug":"jesus-commandments-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/?p=1412","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Commandments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/?attachment_id=1413\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1413\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/shine-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/shine-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/shine.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<b>4.  The Command to \u201cShine\u201d<\/b><br \/>\n<i>\u201cLet your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.\u201d (Matthew 5:16)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>We do not have a \u201cworks-based\u201d faith. We are saved by Christ\u2019s grace alone \u2013 <i>\u201cso no one can boast.\u201d <\/i> But, Jesus clearly says that the good works we do (by the Holy Spirit) bring glory to God. It is the very reason He gave us life. And it will continue to be our everlasting life\u2019s work. We are not to cower in solitude and be comfortable by worldly standards, but by His grace and power shine to a lost and broken world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4. The Command to \u201cShine\u201d \u201cLet your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.\u201d (Matthew 5:16) We do not have a \u201cworks-based\u201d faith. We are saved by Christ\u2019s grace alone \u2013 \u201cso no one can boast.\u201d But, Jesus clearly says that the [&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":[248,62,253,118,252],"class_list":["post-1412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worship","tag-commandments","tag-glory","tag-god","tag-jesus","tag-shine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfZYJd-mM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412","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=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1416,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions\/1416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}