{"id":2229,"date":"2018-11-13T02:35:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T02:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=2229"},"modified":"2018-11-22T15:14:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T15:14:43","slug":"empty-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=2229","title":{"rendered":"Empty Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man&#8217;s religion is vain (empty).\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0James 1:26<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The issue here is not changing one&#8217;s speech.\u00a0 A person can change his\/her speech for the better and still die and go to hell.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The issue is the heart.\u00a0 Jesus said that we speak out of the abundance of the heart.\u00a0 He said that it is not what goes into a man that defiles him, but what comes out of the mouth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Jeremiah declared:\u00a0The\u00a0heart\u00a0is\u00a0deceitful\u00a0above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em><strong>Jeremiah 17:9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The tongue reveals the condition of the heart.\u00a0 It is the heart that needs to be changed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>A new\u00a0heart\u00a0also\u00a0will\u00a0I\u00a0give\u00a0you, and a new spirit\u00a0will\u00a0I put within you: and I\u00a0will\u00a0take away the stony\u00a0heart\u00a0out of your\u00a0flesh, and I\u00a0will\u00a0give\u00a0you an\u00a0heart\u00a0of\u00a0flesh.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong> Ezekiel 36:26<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A changed heart makes a new creature.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Therefore if any man be in Christ,\u00a0he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><strong>II <\/strong><strong>Corinthians 5:17<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him\u00a0should\u00a0not\u00a0perish, but have everlasting life.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em><strong>John 3:16<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>&#8230;&#8230;.Consider it to be so&#8230;&#8230;\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man&#8217;s religion is vain (empty).\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0James 1:26 The issue here is not changing one&#8217;s speech.\u00a0 A person can change his\/her speech for the better and still die and go to hell. The issue &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=2229\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Empty Religion<\/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\/2229"}],"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=2229"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2242,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions\/2242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}