{"id":2353,"date":"2013-07-03T09:21:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T13:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=2353"},"modified":"2013-07-03T09:21:39","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T13:21:39","slug":"dont-do-as-the-hypocrites-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=2353","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Do As the Hypocrites Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201cWatch out! Don\u2019t do your good deeds publicly, to be admired by others, for you will lose the reward from your Father in heaven. When you give to someone in need, don\u2019t do as the hypocrites do\u2014blowing trumpets in the synagogues and streets to call attention to their acts of charity! I tell you the truth, they have received all the reward they will ever get. But when you give to someone in need, don\u2019t let your left hand know what your right hand is doing. Give your gifts in private, and your Father, who sees everything, will reward you.\u201d<\/span> \u2013 Matthew 6:1-4 (NLT)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b><i>Acts of truly selfless giving aren\u2019t done in the public eye, but instead are performed with no thought as to recognition or recompense.\u00a0 God loves a cheerful giver (2 Corinthians 9:7), and the knowledge that our gifts of service and charity please Him and glorify His presence in our lives are the only reward that actually matters.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>~Phather Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWatch out! Don\u2019t do your good deeds publicly, to be admired by others, for you will lose the reward from your Father in heaven. When you give to someone in need, don\u2019t do as the hypocrites do\u2014blowing trumpets in the synagogues and streets to call attention to their acts of charity! I tell you the [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2088],"tags":[1444,2529,3125,3194,769,1507,1180,3122,269,783,3123,3124,3121,2528],"class_list":["post-2353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-inspirations","tag-2-corinthians","tag-charity","tag-cheerful-giver","tag-daily-inspirations","tag-giving","tag-gods-presence","tag-gospel-of-matthew","tag-hypocrites","tag-jesus","tag-matthew","tag-recognition","tag-recompense","tag-selfless-giving","tag-sermon-on-the-mount"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-BX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353","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=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2354,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions\/2354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}