{"id":5037,"date":"2023-06-07T09:19:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T09:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/?p=5037"},"modified":"2023-06-14T10:35:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T10:35:46","slug":"5037","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/?p=5037","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Thing Itself<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Romans 4:13-25<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When a man loves a woman,<br>does he love a painting of the woman<br>or the woman herself?<br>Surely he knows the painting<br>is not the thing itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When a woman loves a man,<br>does she love a photograph of the man<br>or the man himself?<br>Surely she knows the photograph<br>is not the thing itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photographs and paintings are representations,<br>not the thing itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sacrifices and offerings are representations<br>of our obedience to God,<br>not actual obedience.<br>Obedience to God is the thing itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Second Sunday after Pentecost<\/strong><br>June 11, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>davebaldwin37@gmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Thing Itself Romans 4:13-25 When a man loves a woman,does he love a painting of the womanor the woman herself?Surely he knows the paintingis not the thing itself. When a woman loves a man,does she love a photograph of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/?p=5037\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5054,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5037\/revisions\/5054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}