{"id":739,"date":"2010-04-22T16:21:07","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T16:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graceepc.org\/?p=739"},"modified":"2010-04-22T16:21:07","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T16:21:07","slug":"jesus-wants-what-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/?p=739","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Wants What? Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/graceepc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Jesus-wants-what-Part-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-736\" title=\"Jesus wants what? Part 1\" src=\"http:\/\/graceepc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Jesus-wants-what-Part-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Doug told us last Sunday Jesus wants us to be stupid, which is pretty evident if you listen to some of the stuff he says, Jesus that is, not Doug.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Even Peter knew better.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus told them the Son of Man must die.<\/p>\n<p>Peter said, No Way!<\/p>\n<p>Jesus answered, Get behind me Satan.<\/p>\n<p>Peter knew who Jesus was, he was the Messiah, the Jews would be saved by Messiah. But if Messiah dies, well, it\u2019s game over. Sure he can heal people and raise other people from the dead. But if you\u2019re dead, there\u2019s no doing anything. You\u2019re dead.<\/p>\n<p>So if Messiah dies what does that accomplish?<\/p>\n<p>Everything.<\/p>\n<p>Peter just didn\u2019t know. Couldn\u2019t grasp the whole concept. Couldn\u2019t wrap his mind around how Jesus dying was going to help anything. He truly thought it was game over.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus knew it wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug told us last Sunday Jesus wants us to be stupid, which is pretty evident if you listen to some of the stuff he says, Jesus that is, not Doug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0qX-bV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}