{"id":2108,"date":"2021-03-19T19:17:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T23:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fccclintonma.org\/wp\/?page_id=2108"},"modified":"2021-03-19T19:20:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T23:20:21","slug":"lessons-for-living-from-the-bible-in-everyday-english-lesson-42","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fccclintonma.org\/wp\/lessons-for-living-from-the-bible-in-everyday-english-lesson-42\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons for Living from the Bible in Everyday English by Dennis Magee"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Lesson 42: Remedy for Struggle with Sin:<\/h5>\n<div align=justify>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 25px;\">Taken from Paul\u2019s letter to the Ephesians, Chapters 1 and 2:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=justify>\n<style type=\"text\"> p {text-indent: 0px;}<\/style>\n<ul style=\"padding-left: 50px;\">\n<li>\n<p>God has blessed us with every heavenly gift beyond measure in Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>In our natural state we are all spiritually dead; we want nothing to do with God.  We want only to pursue our fleshly passions and appetites.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>We are undeserving of any of God\u2019s grace.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Because of God\u2019s infinite grace and love He made us alive spiritually in Christ.  He even gives us the faith to accept Christ.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>We want to fully experience the extent of God\u2019s grace and love until the new age, when everything we consider good will be magnified.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>In the meantime we need to be patient and tolerant with each other.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>We will suffer trials caused by things such as dysfunctional families, finances, etc.; we need to continually remember all the blessings we have in Christ.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lesson 42: Remedy for Struggle with Sin: Taken from Paul\u2019s letter to the Ephesians, Chapters 1 and 2: God has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1974,"parent":0,"menu_order":11042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2108","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fccclintonma.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fccclintonma.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fccclintonma.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fccclintonma.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fccclintonma.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2108"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/fccclintonma.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2128,"href":"https:\/\/fccclintonma.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2108\/revisions\/2128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fccclintonma.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fccclintonma.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}