{"id":7273,"date":"2019-10-14T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/?p=7273"},"modified":"2019-10-14T19:07:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T02:07:29","slug":"respect-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/respect-3\/","title":{"rendered":"RESPECT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Hebrews 12:9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><strong><em>\u201cWe have had human fathers who corrected\u00a0us,\u00a0and we paid\u00a0them\u00a0respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think it was the comedian Rodney Dangerfield who continually complained that he received no\u00a0<em>respect<\/em>. This complaint has not been limited to Dangerfield, but is shared by many people. Many assaults and even murders have been committed because someone thought they were not given the proper\u00a0<em>respect<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In my experience with the criminal justice system, as well in private counseling, I have discovered a one-way street: Those people who are so adamant about\u00a0<strong>receiving<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>respect<\/strong>\u00a0are most often the ones who\u00a0<strong>show little<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>respect<\/strong>\u00a0to others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The word\u00a0<em>respect<\/em>\u00a0as used here in Hebrews 12, is the Greek word\u00a0<strong><em>entrep\u020f.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>It may also be interpreted as\u00a0<em>reverence<\/em>. Wow! That is a quality that is rarely seen in our modern world!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We may think of it as the lack of\u00a0<em>reverence<\/em>\u00a0and\/or\u00a0<em>respect<\/em>\u00a0to those in authority around us such as parents, employers, or elected officials \u2013 but that is nothing in comparison with the\u00a0<em>reverence<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>respect<\/em>\u00a0that is due to our Lord Jesus Christ. When was the last time you honored Him with the respect He deserves? Now is the time to act!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blessings dear hearts. Draw near to God today and be a blessing!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hebrews 12:9 \u201cWe have had human fathers who corrected\u00a0us,\u00a0and we paid\u00a0them\u00a0respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?\u201d I think it was the comedian Rodney Dangerfield who continually complained that he received no\u00a0respect. This complaint has not been limited to Dangerfield, but is shared by many [&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":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hebrews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273","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=7273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}