{"id":8578,"date":"2020-11-19T00:40:39","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T00:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/?p=8578"},"modified":"2020-11-19T00:40:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T00:40:39","slug":"freedom-of-speaking-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/?p=8578","title":{"rendered":"Freedom of speaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<em>do not throw away your CONFIDENCE<\/em>&#8230; Hebrews 10:35<\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENCE here is the Greek word <em>parresia<\/em>, which means FREEDOM OF SPEAKING.<\/p>\n<p>So, here is Hebrews 10:35 in its entirety using this definition:<\/p>\n<p><em>Therefore, do not throw away your FREEDOM OF SPEAKING, which has a great reward<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, you are not required to submit to the rules imposed upon you by those who\u00a0 do not fear God. You know\u2014rules such as don&#8217;t talk about <em>this<\/em>; don&#8217;t refute <em>that<\/em>; never oppose culturally-held, unscriptural beliefs openly or publicly.<\/p>\n<p>God&#8217;s Word gives you a different directive: Hold fast to your confidence. You have as much right to speak as anyone else. Speak Life. Speak Truth. Speak the unadulterated counsel of God.<\/p>\n<p>Dorothy<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2020, Dorothy Frick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;do not throw away your CONFIDENCE&#8230; Hebrews 10:35 CONFIDENCE here is the Greek word parresia, which means FREEDOM OF SPEAKING. So, here is Hebrews 10:35 in its entirety using this definition: Therefore, do not throw away your FREEDOM OF SPEAKING, which has a great reward. In other words, you are not required to submit to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections-in-the-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8580,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578\/revisions\/8580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}