{"id":5519,"date":"2022-01-24T11:38:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T16:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=5519"},"modified":"2022-01-24T11:38:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T16:38:25","slug":"a-stiff-necked-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=5519","title":{"rendered":"A Stiff-necked Horror"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2 Chron 30:7-16<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t be a stiff-necked horror, <br>Nor even a sleazy kind of whore! <br>With the Lord you got places to go! <br>He can turn you captors into benefactors <br>Turn those horse-drawn plows into tractors! <br>I say walkin&#8217; with the Lord is a deal <br>Much better than a lot of free meals: <br>Deliverance from punishment eternal <br>Talkin&#8217; &#8217;bout the kind that&#8217;s infernal, <br>Down there with the devil and his minions <br>(Over hell that fiend has dominion.) <br>Remember Asher, Manasseh and Zebulun <br>Humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem. <br>Some men from those towns were true (11) <br>Had a heart from God to see &#8217;em through. <br>Took down those nasty incense altars (14) <br>And threw them in the brook of Kidron; <br>Slaughtered those Passover lambs (15) <br>Hopin&#8217; to keep from those back-slidin&#8217; jams. <br>Well, the priest did <em>sprinkle<\/em> that blood! (16) <br>No, immersion was not the mode. <br>Think on it my Baptist blokes <br>No need to make those converts to choke!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24 Jan., 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 Chron 30:7-16 Don&#8217;t be a stiff-necked horror, Nor even a sleazy kind of whore! With the Lord you got places to go! He can turn you captors into benefactors Turn those horse-drawn plows into tractors! I say walkin&#8217; with the Lord is a deal Much better than a lot of free meals: Deliverance from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,33,54,52,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5519"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5520,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5519\/revisions\/5520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}