{"id":648,"date":"2025-07-09T01:37:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T01:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/?p=648"},"modified":"2025-07-09T01:37:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T01:37:39","slug":"july9-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/july9-25\/","title":{"rendered":"July9-25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Matthew 25:33<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cAnd He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.\u201d There are two kinds of believers, the true believer and the make-believer. The true believers are the sheep; they go to church, hear the Word, and respond, bringing forth lasting fruit. The make-believers are the goats; they go to church, hear the Word, and go back to their life with little effort to improve. \u201cJesus spoke to them again, saying,\u00a0\u201cI am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.\u201d Notice the words \u201cshall not\u201d in that verse. Walking in darkness is anything contrary to the Word of God, such as having an intimate relationship with someone you are not married to according to God\u2019s standard, which is one man (male) and one woman (female). It is anything only you know about, and even though you attend church and hear the word, you won\u2019t stop the behavior, which is \u201cwalking in darkness\u201d. <sup>\u201c<\/sup>For the word of God\u00a0<em>is<\/em> living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart \u201c(Hebrews 4:12). You can be in the word, but is the word in you? Sheep don\u2019t walk in darkness; they have the light of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew 25:33 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cAnd He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.\u201d There are two kinds of believers, the true believer and the make-believer. The true believers are the sheep; they go to church, hear the Word, and respond, bringing forth lasting fruit. The make-believers are the goats; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":649,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}