{"id":91,"date":"2009-02-06T10:46:42","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T16:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=91"},"modified":"2009-06-11T10:08:31","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T16:08:31","slug":"this-sunday-on-fruit-and-foundations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/this-sunday-on-fruit-and-foundations\/","title":{"rendered":"This Sunday: &#8220;On Fruit and Foundations&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday&#8217;s message will continue to examine Jesus&#8217; sermon in Luke 6. We have seen Jesus teaching some hard sayings here, like &#8220;love your enemies&#8221; (vss 27-36) and &#8220;do not judge or you will be judged&#8221; (vss 37-42). This Sunday we will see Him explain the &#8220;root&#8221; from which this &#8220;fruit&#8221; flows and the &#8220;foundation&#8221; on which such radical love and mercy rest (vss 43-49).<\/p>\n<p>Related, this quote from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wholesomewords.org\/children\/heroes\/hbrainerd.html\">David Brainerd<\/a> (1718-1747) highlights the danger of good works done for the wrong reasons:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I had been fasting, praying, obeying, I thought I was aiming at the glory of God, but I was doing it all for my own glory&#8211;to feel I was worthy. As long as I was doing all this to earn my salvation, I was doing nothing for God, all for me! I realized that all my struggling to become worthy was an exercise in self-worship. I was actually trying to avoid God as saviour, and to be my own saviour. i.e. I was not worshipping him, but using him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>May God grant us discernment and grace to know well the difference between genuine fruit which flows from our connection to the tree (Christ) and that which is self-made &#8220;righteousness&#8221; done for our own glory &#8212; or, as Brainerd said, an exercise of self-worship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday&#8217;s message will continue to examine Jesus&#8217; sermon in Luke 6. We have seen Jesus teaching some&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/this-sunday-on-fruit-and-foundations\/\">Continue Reading &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}