{"id":2445,"date":"2016-08-11T11:57:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T15:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=2445"},"modified":"2016-08-11T11:57:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T15:57:08","slug":"what-will-it-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=2445","title":{"rendered":"What will it take?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;I saw the Lord, sitting upon a throne &#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/strong> (Isaiah 6:1)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/tunnel.light_.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2447\" src=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/tunnel.light_.jpeg\" alt=\"tunnel.light\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/tunnel.light_.jpeg 512w, https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/tunnel.light_-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What will it take to set you free from the world\u2019s idolatries\u2014what will it take to keep you from trusting in things that are no gods at all? What will make you free from the world\u2019s immoralities\u2014what will it take to make you untouched by the lust for smut that the world peddles and with which worldlings ruin their lives? What will it take to liberate you from the world\u2019s false perspective on the way things are\u2014the perspective that assumes there is no god, there is no revelation of truth in the Bible, and there will be no judgment?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll tell you what it will take: it will take seeing God as he is. Beholding God will break the chains of idolatry because when you see God, you see what Deity is, and that exposes the idols as worthless and unworthy of trust. Beholding God will purify you from immorality because when you see God you see what beauty and faithfulness are, and that exposes the ugliness of adultery. Beholding God will give you new lenses through which to look at the world because God himself defines reality.&#8221;\u00a0 \u2013Dr. James M. Hamilton, Jr. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Revelation-Churches-James-Hamilton-Jr\/dp\/143350541X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1470930433&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=revelation+james+hamilton\">Revelation: The Spirit Speaks to the Churches,<\/a> p.130)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I saw the Lord, sitting upon a throne &#8230;&#8221; (Isaiah 6:1) &#8220;What will it take to set you free from the world\u2019s idolatries\u2014what will it take to keep you from trusting in things that are no gods at all? What will make you free from the world\u2019s immoralities\u2014what will it take to make you untouched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[55,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attributes-of-god","category-isaiah","post-preview"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgYGxX-Dr","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2448,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions\/2448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}