{"id":3891,"date":"2014-07-23T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/?p=3891"},"modified":"2014-07-22T12:37:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T19:37:28","slug":"one-little-apostrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/one-little-apostrophe\/","title":{"rendered":"ONE LITTLE APOSTROPHE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Matthew 5:17-18<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.<\/em><em> For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I recently received a card from my dentist reminding me of an appointment. The card was in the form of a comic strip favorite of our, <em>Pickles<\/em> by Brian Crane. The elderly couple were sitting on a porch swing and the husband complimented his wife by observing, \u201c<em>In the moonlight your teeth look like pearls<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The wife replied, \u201c<em>Who is Pearl and what were you doing in the moonlight with her?<\/em>\u201d The difference was a small punctuation mark \u2013 an apostrophe (\u2019) to indicate that the noun <em>pearls<\/em> became <em>Pearl\u2019s<\/em>. \u00a0Wow!<\/p>\n<p>Back when I was a teenager there was a popular misquote of Scripture that was intended to be humorous and justified suicide. It went something like this; \u201c<span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>Judas went out and hanged himself. Go thou and do likewise. And whatsoever thou doest, do quickly.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There have been many attempts to change the meaning of Scripture to fit a particular lifestyle. Many have ignored the importance of the <em>Old Testament<\/em> and for that matter, they have denied the power of <em>God\u2019s Word<\/em> to direct the affairs of mankind. How tragically sad! May God keep our minds ever alert to deception!<\/p>\n<p>May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions!<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew 5:17-18 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matthew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}