{"id":5203,"date":"2022-10-30T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5203"},"modified":"2022-10-23T08:26:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T14:26:51","slug":"honor-the-emperor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5203","title":{"rendered":"Honor the emperor?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How do we live in an age where the government seems to make one bad decision after another? (No offense intended: whichever party is in power, at least half the people are asking that question!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peter has a word, and remember, when Peter was alive, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nero\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nero<\/a> was the emperor, and the Roman Empire persecuted Christians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God. Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor. (1 Peter 2.16, 17, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How well are we doing at keeping these short sentences?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>Live as people who are free, <\/em><ul><li><em>not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, <\/em><\/li><li><em>but living as servants of God. <\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><em>Honor everyone. <\/em><\/li><li><em>Love the brotherhood. <\/em><\/li><li><em>Fear God. <\/em><\/li><li><em>Honor the emperor\/president\/governor&#8230;<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do we live in an age where the government seems to make one bad decision after another? (No offense intended: whichever party is in power, at least half the people are asking that question!) Peter has a word, and remember, when Peter was alive, Nero was the emperor, and the Roman Empire persecuted Christians. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5203\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Honor the emperor?<\/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":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-1lV","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5205,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203\/revisions\/5205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}