{"id":715,"date":"2017-04-10T10:46:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T15:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=715"},"modified":"2017-04-10T12:05:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T17:05:41","slug":"the-rebel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/10\/the-rebel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rebel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-716\" src=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/drawing-of-jesus-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/drawing-of-jesus-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/drawing-of-jesus-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/drawing-of-jesus-700x394.jpg 700w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/drawing-of-jesus-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/drawing-of-jesus.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<h6>Entering into the most unusual time of history\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>A man walked the streets in a cloak of mystery\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Not famous\u2026not even known to his people\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Son of his mother\u2026she knew who he was\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>His purpose became known; listen to what he does\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Not on my watch, hear the truth\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>People will come to persecute you, but here this, and do what I do\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Teachers, Professors they think they are right\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>They have secret meetings, their hearts black as night\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>I\u2019ve come to show you the way, the truth, and the life\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>You strain at a Nat and swallow a camel\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>I haven\u2019t chosen you; to sit on my panel\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>You can\u2019t even see that God has arrived<\/h6>\n<h6>He\u2019s right in your midst, you won\u2019t survive\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>You are tools of dishonor and pride<\/h6>\n<h6>You who wear robes of evil and who hide<\/h6>\n<h6>Beneath religion<\/h6>\n<h6>Lies and deceit<\/h6>\n<h6>Your words are lifeless, you face defeat\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Quoting the <em>law<\/em> as if you are the author\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Empty words that do not prosper\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Proverbs and Parables misunderstood\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>All your preaching will come to no good\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>If you had known my Father God,<\/h6>\n<h6>You would have known the road I trod\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Is love not hate, both sides of heaven\u2019s gate\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>You\u2019re an enemy, enemy of the state\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>I see your hearts made of solid steel<\/h6>\n<h6>The father of lies, I\u2019m here to reveal\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>I don\u2019t fit into your wooden box\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>For I\u2019m the one you will hang on the cross\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>I say love, you say hate,<\/h6>\n<h6>I say live, you say wait\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>I say give and you say take\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>I\u2019m the Savior<\/h6>\n<h6>You don\u2019t believe<\/h6>\n<h6>Holy Spirit His heart you grieve\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>I will not follow your rules you\u2019ll see\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>For God in heaven is waiting for me\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>I\u2019ll cry it\u2019s finished when all is done\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>New life for mine will be finally won.<\/h6>\n<h6>All your crying won\u2019t save you then\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Son&#8217;s of the devil, cast in hell, with him.<\/h6>\n<h6>I am the Rebel\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8211;Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill &#8211;\u00a0April 10, 2017<\/h6>\n<h6><em><span class=\"passage-display-bcv\">Matthew 23<\/span><span class=\"passage-display-version\">New Living Translation (NLT)<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><em><span id=\"en-NLT-23894\" class=\"text Matt-23-1\">Jesus Criticizes the Religious Leaders<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n<h6 class=\"first-line-none chapter-2\"><em><span class=\"text Matt-23-1\">Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples,<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NLT-23895\" class=\"text Matt-23-2\"><span class=\"woj\">\u201cThe teachers of religious law and the Pharisees are the official interpreters of the law of Moses.<\/span><\/span><span id=\"en-NLT-23896\" class=\"text Matt-23-3\"><sup class=\"versenum\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/sup><span class=\"woj\">So practice and obey whatever they tell you, but don\u2019t follow their example. For they don\u2019t practice what they teach.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NLT-23897\" class=\"text Matt-23-4\"><span class=\"woj\">They crush people with unbearable religious demands and never lift a finger to ease the burden.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><em><span id=\"en-NLT-23898\" class=\"text Matt-23-5\"><span class=\"woj\">\u201cEverything they do is for show. On their arms they wear extra wide prayer boxes with Scripture verses inside, and they wear robes with extra long tassels.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NLT-23899\" class=\"text Matt-23-6\"><span class=\"woj\">And they love to sit at the head table at banquets and in the seats of honor in the synagogues.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NLT-23900\" class=\"text Matt-23-7\"><span class=\"woj\">They love to receive respectful greetings as they walk in the marketplaces, and to be called \u2018Rabbi.\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entering into the most unusual time of history\u2026 A man walked the streets in a cloak of mystery\u2026 Not famous\u2026not even known to his people\u2026 Son of his mother\u2026she knew who he was\u2026 His purpose became known; listen to what he does\u2026 An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth\u2026 Not on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8aPxH-bx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}