{"id":3201,"date":"2013-11-06T08:13:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T12:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=3201"},"modified":"2013-11-06T08:13:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T12:13:30","slug":"solemn-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3201","title":{"rendered":"Solemn responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Acts 23:2-5<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And the high priest Ananias commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth. Then Paul said to him, \u201cGod will strike you, you whitewashed wall! For you sit to judge me according to the law, and do you command me to be struck contrary to the law?\u201d And those who stood by said, \u201cDo you revile God\u2019s high priest?\u201d Then Paul said, \u201cI did not know, brethren, that he was the high priest; for it is written, \u2018You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.\u2019&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Even though the high priest was a wicked man, yet he was to be honored because of the office he held. What solemn responsibility then attaches to offices in God&#8217;s church!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acts 23:2-5 And the high priest Ananias commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth. Then Paul said to him, \u201cGod will strike you, you whitewashed wall! For you sit to judge me according to the law, and do you command me to be struck contrary to the law?\u201d And those &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3201\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Solemn responsibility&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}