Many people picture Jesus as someone who would never confront or challenge anyone, but would only affirm everything about us. But a Jesus who affirms everything\u00a0about us is\u00a0a\u00a0“Jesus” of our own making, which\u00a0ultimately is nothing more than\u00a0our own reflection in the mirror. This passage teaches us that Jesus confronts false, corrupt religion, and that he establishes true, pure religion as the true Temple – the true reality\u00a0of “God with us”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Many people picture Jesus as someone who would never confront or challenge anyone, but would only affirm everything about us. But a Jesus who affirms everything\u00a0about us is\u00a0a\u00a0“Jesus” of our own making, which\u00a0ultimately is nothing more than\u00a0our own reflection in the mirror. This passage teaches us that Jesus confronts false, corrupt religion, and that he establishes true, pure religion as the true Temple – the true reality\u00a0of “God with us”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"ctc_sermon_topic":[],"ctc_sermon_book":[75],"ctc_sermon_series":[99],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[64],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"class_list":["post-3442","ctc_sermon","type-ctc_sermon","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ctc_sermon_book-john","ctc_sermon_series-the-gospel-according-to-john","ctc_sermon_speaker-jeff-cottone","ctfw-has-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/3442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_sermon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/3442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3463,"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/3442\/revisions\/3463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_topic?post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_book?post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_series?post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_speaker?post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_tag?post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}