{"id":3981,"date":"2022-06-30T18:22:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T18:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=3981"},"modified":"2022-06-30T18:22:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T18:22:21","slug":"pure-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=3981","title":{"rendered":"Pure Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"highlight\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man&#8217;s religion\u00a0is\u00a0vain <\/em>(empty).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction,\u00a0and\u00a0to keep himself unspotted from the world.*\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>James 1:26 &amp; 27<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>*Friendship with the world is the practice of fulfilling legitimate human needs outside the clear commands and boundaries of Scripture.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>*From blog article entitled \u201cOvercoming the World\u201d in the August 2016 archives.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>&#8230;let the word of Christ dwell <\/em>(take up its life)<em> in you richly&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/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\u00a0is\u00a0vain (empty). Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction,\u00a0and\u00a0to keep himself unspotted from the world.*\u00a0\u00a0James 1:26 &amp; 27 *Friendship with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=3981\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pure 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\/3981"}],"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=3981"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3988,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions\/3988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}