{"id":564,"date":"2007-04-28T03:15:42","date_gmt":"2007-04-28T03:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=564"},"modified":"2007-04-28T03:15:42","modified_gmt":"2007-04-28T03:15:42","slug":"mr.-good-doers-=-mr.-uzzah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Good Doers = Mr. Uzzah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our modern world, besides non-Christians, there are many Christians who are like Uzzah.<\/p>\n<p>They think as long as they sacrifice the time to support, to console, to help, to comfort, etc. they are doing a &quot;good&quot; thing.<\/p>\n<p>Big news, take a look at Uzzah, who helped securing the Ark of God (2 Samuel 6:6).<\/p>\n<p>It is better to be useful to God within His Grace than to be useful to God outside of His Grace.<\/p>\n<p>When someone is hurt emotionally, one thinks as long as the support one gives makes that someone feel &quot;unhurt&quot;, he or she is doing the right thing. Know ye not the difference between happiness and licentiousness.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I ask myself, why are the Christians today getting dumber and dumber? We&#39;ve rejected God&#39;s teaching, we&#39;ve ignored the seasons, we&#39;ve rearranged the order of things God intended, leaving non-Christians the opportunity to be a little more righteous than the children of God. What is sad is, even when we realized this, we are satisfied and happy with what we have realized.<\/p>\n<p>This is not for all to know. Which is why I have been very critical about the Americans. They have the resources, they have the education, yet they are acting like barbarians. There could be a time, when we &quot;foreigners&quot; need to be prepared to save America.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[@more@]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our modern world, besides non-Christians, there are many Christians who are like Uzzah. They think as long as they sacrifice the time to support, to console, to help, to comfort, etc. they are doing a &quot;good&quot; thing. Big news, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=564\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}