{"id":177,"date":"2021-03-12T05:01:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T05:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/city-refuge.org\/street\/2021\/03\/12\/our-gang-on-maturity\/"},"modified":"2021-03-12T05:04:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T05:04:44","slug":"our-gang-on-maturity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/city-refuge.org\/street\/2021\/03\/12\/our-gang-on-maturity\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Gang On Maturity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_19317\"  width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  data-origwidth=\"640\" data-origheight=\"360\"  data-relstop=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/imt68tTMms4?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=1&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>1 Corinthians 1:25-27<br \/>\n25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.<br \/>\n26 For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh,<br \/>\n not many mighty, not many noble, are called.<br \/>\n 27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise,<br \/>\nand God has chosen the weak things of the world<br \/>\nto put to shame the things which are mighty;<\/p>\n<p>1 Corinthians 3:1-3<br \/>\n1 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal,<br \/>\n as to babes in Christ.<br \/>\n2 I fed you with milk and not with solid food;<br \/>\nfor until now you were not able to receive it,<br \/>\n and even now you are still not able;<br \/>\n 3 for you are still carnal. For where there are envy,<br \/>\nstrife, and divisions among you,<br \/>\nare you not carnal and behaving like mere men?<\/p>\n<p>Philippians 3:12-14(NKJV)<br \/>\n12 Not that I have already attained,  or am already perfected; but I press on,<br \/>\n that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.<br \/>\n 13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended;<br \/>\nbut one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind<br \/>\nand reaching forward to those things which are ahead,<br \/>\n14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God<\/p>\n<p>Proverbs 1 (NKJV)<br \/>\n1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel:<br \/>\n2 To know wisdom and instruction,<br \/>\nTo perceive the words of understanding,<br \/>\n3 To receive the instruction of wisdom,<br \/>\nJustice, judgment, and equity;<br \/>\n4 To give prudence to the simple,<br \/>\nTo the young man knowledge and discretion\u2014<br \/>\n5 A wise man will hear and increase learning,<br \/>\nAnd a man of understanding will attain wise counsel,<br \/>\n6 To understand a proverb and an enigma,<br \/>\nThe words of the wise and their riddles.<br \/>\n7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge,<br \/>\nBut fools despise wisdom and instruction.<\/p>\n<p>Judges 2:1-3(NKJV)<br \/>\n1 Then the Angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said:<br \/>\n \u201cI led you up from Egypt and brought you to the land of which I swore to your fathers;<br \/>\n and I said, \u2018I will never break My covenant with you.<br \/>\n2 And you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land;<br \/>\n you shall tear down their altars.\u2019<br \/>\n But you have not obeyed My voice. Why have you done this?<br \/>\n 3 Therefore I also said, \u2018I will not drive them out before you;<br \/>\n but they shall be thorns in your side, and their gods shall  be a snare to you.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hebrews 12 (NKJV)<br \/>\n 5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons:<br \/>\n \u201cMy son, do not despise the [c]chastening of the Lord,<br \/>\nNor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him;<br \/>\n6 For whom the Lord loves He chastens,<br \/>\nAnd scourges every son whom He receives.\u201d<br \/>\n11 Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present,<br \/>\nbut painful; nevertheless,<br \/>\nafterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness<br \/>\nto those who have been trained by it.<\/p>\n<p>Psalm 139<br \/>\n7 Where can I go from Your Spirit?<br \/>\nOr where can I flee from Your presence?<br \/>\n8 If I ascend into heaven, You are there;<br \/>\nIf I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.<br \/>\n9 If I take the wings of the morning,<br \/>\nAnd dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,<br \/>\n10 Even there Your hand shall lead me,<br \/>\nAnd Your right hand shall hold me.<br \/>\n11 If I say, \u201cSurely the darkness shall fall on me,\u201d<br \/>\nEven the night shall be light about me;<br \/>\n12 Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You,<br \/>\nBut the night shines as the day;<br \/>\nThe darkness and the light are both alike to You.<\/p>\n<p>Hebrews 12:2 (NASB1995)<br \/>\nfixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith,<br \/>\nwho for the joy set before Him endured the cross,<br \/>\ndespising the shame,<br \/>\n and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew 7<br \/>\n21 \u201cNot everyone who says to Me, \u2018Lord, Lord,\u2019<br \/>\nshall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.<br \/>\n22 Many will say to Me in that day, \u2018Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name,<br \/>\n cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?\u2019<br \/>\n 23 And then I will declare to them, \u2018I never knew you; depart from Me<br \/>\n, you who practice lawlessness!\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Corinthians 1:25-27 25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 26 For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cort-tv","category-interview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/city-refuge.org\/street\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/city-refuge.org\/street\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/city-refuge.org\/street\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/city-refuge.org\/street\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/city-refuge.org\/street\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/city-refuge.org\/street\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"http:\/\/city-refuge.org\/street\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/city-refuge.org\/street\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/city-refuge.org\/street\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/city-refuge.org\/street\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}