{"id":1419,"date":"2011-08-26T12:55:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T19:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2024-03-26T12:36:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T19:36:09","slug":"beware-of-picking-and-choosing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/2011\/08\/26\/beware-of-picking-and-choosing\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of Picking and Choosing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cYour Words were found, and I did eat them; and Your Word was unto me the joy \u00a0<\/em><\/span>
\nand rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by Your name, O Lord God of Hosts.\u201d <\/em><\/span>
\n(Jeremiah 15:16 KJV)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Beware of picking and choosing in God\u2019s word. It is a very dangerous symptom when there is any portion of Scripture that we are afraid to read. If there is one single chapter in the Book that I do not like, it must be because I feel it accuses and condemns me, and my duty ought to be to face that chapter at once and answer its accusation, and endeavor as far as possible to purify myself by God\u2019s help from that which the passage of Scripture condemns. Brethren, read that passage most which stings you most.<\/p>\n

(excerpted from a sermon by Charles H. Spurgeon <\/span><\/em>on Jeremiah 15:16, <\/span><\/em>titled “The Secret Food and the Public Name”)
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[Click here<\/a> to read and study Jeremiah 15 at Blue Letter Bible.<\/span>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cYour Words were found, and I did eat them; and Your Word was unto me the joy \u00a0 and rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by Your name, O Lord God of Hosts.\u201d (Jeremiah 15:16 KJV) Beware of picking and choosing in God\u2019s word. It is a very dangerous symptom when there is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":1420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-misc","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9411,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/9411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}