{"id":11843,"date":"2025-10-20T14:26:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/?p=11843"},"modified":"2025-10-20T14:26:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:26:16","slug":"seventh-sunday-of-kingdomtide-a-oct-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/?p=11843","title":{"rendered":"Seventh Sunday of Kingdomtide-A-Oct 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Freedom and Domination<\/strong>-A-The prophets were very clear about responsibility. The saying had been, \u201cThe fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children\u2019s teeth are set on edge\u201d, implying that the children suffered due to the sins of their parents. While all mankind suffers because of the sins of Adam and Eve, it is because we choose to follow their example and choose our way over God\u2019s way. God gave the law to direct our behavior towards what God had intended but our desire is to obey the letter of the law while getting around it to get our way if possible. Since our heart seeks to disobey, even when we outwardly obey, our heart isn\u2019t in it and we are rebelling against God\u2019s law, and the penalty for sin is death. God established Israel with no rulers. Every man was responsible to God. The people later demanded a king like the other nations but God warned them that the king would draw them away from God and demand allegiance that only God deserved. However, the Israelites persisted, and God allowed them to have a king. The kings drew the people away from God, just as He said they would. In fact, that is what the kings did. The prophets reminded the people that \u201cthe soul that sins will die\u201d. Each man is responsible for his own behavior. Men want to have someone else in charge to make decisions and take the heat for bad decisions. When we appoint leaders over us, we are authorizing them to make decisions on our behalf. We then become responsible for their decisions. If they don\u2019t do what we want, we should remove them if we can. If we can remove them and do not, we are consenting to their decisions. When leaders take power by force and try to force us to do something that violates God\u2019s will, we must decide whether we will obey them or obey God. We cannot claim we violated God\u2019s law because man told us to, because no man has the authority to override God\u2019s commands. Ultimately, God will hold us accountable for our behavior and will hold them accountable for theirs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freedom and Domination-A-The prophets were very clear about responsibility. The saying had been, \u201cThe fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children\u2019s teeth are set on edge\u201d, implying that the children suffered due to the sins of their parents. While all mankind suffers because of the sins of Adam and Eve, it is because we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11844,"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11843\/revisions\/11844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}