{"id":1457,"date":"2017-03-05T23:22:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T23:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2017-09-03T04:11:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T04:11:23","slug":"get-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=1457","title":{"rendered":"Get Down!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Have you heard the one about the hippie soldier who was wounded in battle in Vietnam? \u00a0I didn&#8217;t think so. \u00a0Well, here is how the story went.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A hippie was drafted into the army. \u00a0He was trained in the basics and sent to Vietnam. \u00a0One day, while on patrol, a fire fight erupted with the enemy. \u00a0Immediately the hippie soldier was shot down \u00a0because he needlessly exposed himself to enemy gunfire. \u00a0An investigation followed. \u00a0It was discovered that just as the firefight erupted, the hippie soldier&#8217;s commanding officer issued an order to <em>&#8220;Get Down!<\/em>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Of course we all know what the commanding officer meant by <em>Get Down! \u00a0<\/em>However, if you are not old enough to remember the hippie movement you may not recall what <em>Get Down! <\/em>meant to the hippie. \u00a0<em>Get down<\/em> was slang for <em>let&#8217;s get down to business. \u00a0<\/em>Business for the hippie, as I recall, was to boogie. \u00a0Bad time to boogie.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Yeh, I know, bad joke&#8230;&#8230;., but a good illustration, right?! \u00a0The same command was given to the hippie soldier as was given to the other soldiers but with different results. The meaning of the command was different to the hippie soldier. \u00a0The same thing happens among Christians when one is thinking culturally as opposed to thinking Biblically. \u00a0The two are not on the same page.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>When love is mentioned, what do you think of? \u00a0The culture equates love with physical desire, toleration, and feelings. \u00a0The Lord Jesus equates love with right choices and right relationships.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">he it is that loveth<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">me:<\/span> and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.<\/span> \u00a0<\/em>John 14:21<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>So,&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;are you and the Lord on the same page?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard the one about the hippie soldier who was wounded in battle in Vietnam? \u00a0I didn&#8217;t think so. \u00a0Well, here is how the story went. A hippie was drafted into the army. \u00a0He was trained in the basics and sent to Vietnam. \u00a0One day, while on patrol, a fire fight erupted with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=1457\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Get Down!!!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1657,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions\/1657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}