{"id":881,"date":"2014-12-18T09:02:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T14:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/december-18-echoes-of-eternitywherefore-as-the-holy-spirit-saith-today-if-ye\/"},"modified":"2014-12-18T09:02:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T14:02:02","slug":"december-18-echoes-of-eternitywherefore-as-the-holy-spirit-saith-today-if-ye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/december-18-echoes-of-eternitywherefore-as-the-holy-spirit-saith-today-if-ye\/","title":{"rendered":"December 18 Echoes of Eternity\nWherefore, as the Holy Spirit saith, Today if ye&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 18 Echoes of Eternity<br \/> Wherefore, as the Holy Spirit saith, Today if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts.<br \/> Hebrews 3:7,8<br \/> My word to you is this: Today if you hear My word, do not harden your heart. The encrustation of self-defense is like corrosion on metal. It forms a protective and insulating barrier against the truth. In the meantime its corrosive effect is also at work, tearing down even the good that has already been done. This is why I said in the Scripture, \u201cThe latter state is worse than the first.\u201d The deadness, torpor, the inability to be inwardly moved\u2014these are indicators that<br \/> damage has already been done.<br \/> There is no sin that does a more deadly work to the soul than hardening the heart. So I say again, \u201cToday if you hear My word, do not harden your heart. He that has ears to hear, let him hear.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 18 Echoes of Eternity Wherefore, as the Holy Spirit saith, Today if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts. Hebrews 3:7,8 My word to you is this: Today if you hear My word, do not harden your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/december-18-echoes-of-eternitywherefore-as-the-holy-spirit-saith-today-if-ye\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paraclete-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}