{"id":2126,"date":"2012-07-26T11:29:55","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T15:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=2126"},"modified":"2012-07-26T11:29:55","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T15:29:55","slug":"condemning-ourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=2126","title":{"rendered":"Condemning Ourselves&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cYou may think you can condemn such people, but you are just as bad, and you have no excuse! When you say they are wicked and should be punished, you are condemning yourself, for you who judge others do these very same things.\u00a0And we know that God, in his justice, will punish anyone who does such things.\u00a0Since you judge others for doing these things, why do you think you can avoid God\u2019s judgment when you do the same things?\u201d \u2013 Romans 2:1-3 (NLT)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>Just as Jesus warned us against the hypocrisy inherent in casting judgment on others (Matthew 7:3-5), the Apostle Paul reminds us in his Epistle to the Romans that when we look to the sin of those around us, we are in fact condemning ourselves in the process.\u00a0 We all sin, and we all need the grace and mercy of our Lord and Savior to cleanse that corruption from us.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou may think you can condemn such people, but you are just as bad, and you have no excuse! When you say they are wicked and should be punished, you are condemning yourself, for you who judge others do these very same things.\u00a0And we know that God, in his justice, will punish anyone who does [&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":[2804,2891,3194,1746,1180,2890,269,1348,1747,2889,2382],"class_list":["post-2126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-inspirations","tag-casting-judgment","tag-condemning-ourselves","tag-daily-inspirations","tag-epistle-to-the-romans","tag-gospel-of-matthew","tag-hypocrisy","tag-jesus","tag-lord","tag-pauls-epistle-to-the-romans","tag-savior","tag-the-apostle-paul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-yi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126","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=2126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2128,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions\/2128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}