{"id":1078,"date":"2011-12-03T11:22:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T17:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:10","slug":"religion-of-public-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1078","title":{"rendered":"Religion of Public Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John 12:43<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Many people want religion but they want it on their own religious terms.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I: Some want legial religion.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Sense prevails over faith.<br \/>\n2. Some things are legalized that aren&#8217;t Christinised.<br \/>\n3. Leagalized Religion is moved by fear.<!--more--><br \/>\n4. It will rejoice in a low standard.<br \/>\n5. It&#8217;s always preparing for death and never for life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>II: Some want cheap religion.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. It wants the best for the lowest price.<br \/>\n2. It wants service without serving.<br \/>\n3. It&#8217;s satisfied to just make it through the gates of Heaven.<br \/>\n4. It fails to count the cost of Calvery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: Some want a religion of public opinion.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. The opinion of men comes before, thus sayeth the Lord.<br \/>\n2. It&#8217;s satisfied to compare itself with others of low standards.<br \/>\n3. It had rather do what is respectable than to do what is right.<br \/>\n4. It does things away from home that it won&#8217;t do at home.<br \/>\n5. It reveals in secret sin.<br \/>\n6. It strives to be on both sides.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The only religion that will stand the test of fire is that which sets Jesus as its pattern.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 12:43 Many people want religion but they want it on their own religious terms. I: Some want legial religion. 1. Sense prevails over faith. 2. Some things are legalized that aren&#8217;t Christinised. 3. Leagalized Religion is moved by fear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1407,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/1407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}