{"id":3725,"date":"2022-06-02T02:38:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T02:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/?p=3725"},"modified":"2022-06-02T02:38:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T02:38:32","slug":"genuine-or-generic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/2022\/06\/02\/genuine-or-generic\/","title":{"rendered":"GENUINE OR GENERIC ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mat 13:30 &#8220;Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.&#8221;Vs 30<\/p>\n<p>Jesus gave a parable of a man who had planted good seeds. While everyone was asleep, the enemy came and planted seeds among the wheat. It bothered the owner&#8217;s servants  because they couldn&#8217;t understand how the bad seeds came to the field. They even requested if they could pluck them off. The field owner said they should be left to grow together.<\/p>\n<p>We are living in an era whereby for every good product in the market, we have several others that are counterfeits. We  have fake currency  , counterfeit  spare parts , counterfeit drugs etc. Despite the availability of fake things in the market, it is not conclusive that there are shortage of original products.<\/p>\n<p>As it is in the physical, so it is in the spiritual . Not everyone who carries a Bible is a born again Christian. Going to church or having a Christian name does not make one a believer. It&#8217;s until we live as per the Word of God that we become genuine believers.<\/p>\n<p>God&#8217;s divine intention is for each and everyone of us to be a true representative of Him while in this world . Any genuine child of God will aspire to be productive for the Kingdom&#8217;s sake. Ponder this , If you are on trial for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to find you guilty?<\/p>\n<p>Further readings:<br \/>\nJob.4:8<br \/>\nPro.22:8<br \/>\nGal. 6:8b<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4f Blessed Day \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mat 13:30 &#8220;Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.&#8221;Vs 30 Jesus gave a parable of a man who had planted good seeds&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3727,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725\/revisions\/3727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}