{"id":2623,"date":"2024-02-18T14:13:13","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T14:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2024-02-18T14:17:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T14:17:39","slug":"the-ends-dont-justify-the-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/?p=2623","title":{"rendered":"The ends don&#8217;t justify the means"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-bottom: 0;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2186\" src=\"http:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/640px-Star_from_the_Lizard_Constellation_Photobombs_Hubble_Observation_342807119661.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"421\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/640px-Star_from_the_Lizard_Constellation_Photobombs_Hubble_Observation_342807119661.jpg 640w, https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/640px-Star_from_the_Lizard_Constellation_Photobombs_Hubble_Observation_342807119661-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/640px-Star_from_the_Lizard_Constellation_Photobombs_Hubble_Observation_342807119661-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/640px-Star_from_the_Lizard_Constellation_Photobombs_Hubble_Observation_342807119661-140x140.jpg 140w, https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/640px-Star_from_the_Lizard_Constellation_Photobombs_Hubble_Observation_342807119661-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/640px-Star_from_the_Lizard_Constellation_Photobombs_Hubble_Observation_342807119661-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/640px-Star_from_the_Lizard_Constellation_Photobombs_Hubble_Observation_342807119661-350x350.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; line-height: 0px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gsfc\/34280711966\/\">Star from the Lizard Constellation Credit: ESA\/Hubble &amp; NASA<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"en-ESV-23217\" class=\"text Matt-4-7\"><sup class=\"versenum\">\u00a0<\/sup><\/span><span id=\"en-ESV-23218\" class=\"text Matt-4-8\">Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-23219\" class=\"text Matt-4-9\">And he said to him, \u201cAll these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-23220\" class=\"text Matt-4-10\">Then Jesus said to him,\u00a0<span class=\"woj\">\u201cBe gone, Satan! For it is written,\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"text Matt-4-10\"><span class=\"woj\">\u201c\u2018You shall worship the Lord your God<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"indent-1\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text Matt-4-10\"><span class=\"woj\">and him only shall you serve.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 Matt. 4 :8-10<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Godly ends accomplished by ungodly means are not godly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star from the Lizard Constellation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-thought-for-the-day"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2689,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions\/2689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}