{"id":2046,"date":"2012-03-06T10:57:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T14:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=2046"},"modified":"2012-03-06T10:57:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T14:57:51","slug":"honoring-the-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=2046","title":{"rendered":"Honoring the Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cJesus said to them, <span style=\"color: #800000;\">&#8220;Have you never read in the Scriptures:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> &#8220;&#8216;The stone that the builders rejected<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> has become the cornerstone;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> this was the Lord&#8217;s doing,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> and it is marvelous in our eyes&#8217;?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits.\u00a0And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.<\/span>&#8221; \u2013 Matthew 21:42-44 (ESV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>Just as Jesus warned the chief priests and Pharisees that they\u2019d severely erred in dismissing His doctrines and teachings, it\u2019s important that we don\u2019t make the same mistake in our daily lives.\u00a0 By investing ourselves in learning His Word and striving to live by His example, we honor the amazing gift that was delivered to us through the life, death and resurrection of Christ Jesus.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cJesus said to them, &#8220;Have you never read in the Scriptures: &#8220;&#8216;The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord&#8217;s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes&#8217;? Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits.\u00a0And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2088],"tags":[2750,2475,3194,2752,1391,1180,269,2383,2751,2753],"class_list":["post-2046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-inspirations","tag-chief-priests","tag-christ-jesus","tag-daily-inspirations","tag-doctrines","tag-gods-word","tag-gospel-of-matthew","tag-jesus","tag-jesus-example","tag-pharisees","tag-teachings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-x0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2048,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions\/2048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}