{"id":17335,"date":"2025-07-18T16:56:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T15:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clcbconline.com\/?p=17335"},"modified":"2025-07-18T16:56:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T15:56:58","slug":"whom-are-you-following","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clcbconline.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/18\/whom-are-you-following\/","title":{"rendered":"Whom are you following?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whom are you following?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You must avoid idolatry by following man, or your pastor,&nbsp; instead of Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Corinthians&nbsp; 10:14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whose word have final authority over your life?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it God&#8217;s word in the Bible or your pastor&#8217;s word?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You must examine yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 Corinthians&nbsp; 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You must not love anyone more than God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matthew&nbsp; 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You must be like the Berean Christian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Acts&nbsp; 17:10 And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.&nbsp; 17:11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember Jesus died for you, not your pastor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Corinthians&nbsp; 1:12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.&nbsp; 1:13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Endeavor to follow Jesus and not your pastor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whom are you following? You must avoid idolatry by following man, or your pastor,&nbsp; instead of Jesus. 1 Corinthians&nbsp; 10:14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry. Whose word have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clcbconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clcbconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clcbconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clcbconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clcbconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/clcbconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17336,"href":"https:\/\/clcbconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17335\/revisions\/17336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clcbconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clcbconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clcbconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}