{"id":4768,"date":"2016-04-19T16:21:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T20:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/?p=4768"},"modified":"2016-04-19T16:21:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T20:21:13","slug":"self-examination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/2016\/04\/19\/self-examination\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Examination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It is not my aim to introduce <b>doubt<\/b>s and fears into your mind; no, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">but I do hope self-examination may help to drive them away<\/span>. It is not security, but false security, which we would kill; not confidence, but false confidence, which we would overthrow; not peace, but false peace, which we would destroy.&#8221; ~ C.H. Spurgeon<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I read the above quote just now and it reminded me of our pastor who has readily admitted to frequently preaching on Biblical evidences of salvation &#8211; not to make\u00a0one doubt but to destroy a false security to which many are cleaving! For that, I am very thankful!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>&#8220;Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?&#8221; II Corinthians 13:5<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is not my aim to introduce doubts and fears into your mind; no, but I do hope self-examination may help to drive them away. It is not security, but false security, which we would kill; not confidence, but false confidence, which we would overthrow; not peace, but false peace, which we would destroy.&#8221; ~ C.H. Spurgeon I read the above quote just now and it reminded me of our pastor who has readily admitted to frequently preaching on Biblical evidences of salvation &#8211; not to make\u00a0one doubt but to destroy a false security to which many are cleaving! For that, I am very thankful! &#8220;Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?&#8221; II Corinthians 13:5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","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":[24,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-salvation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o6C2-1eU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4769,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions\/4769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}