{"id":195,"date":"2014-12-15T00:19:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T06:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.burningchaff.info\/?p=195"},"modified":"2017-05-28T10:22:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T15:22:18","slug":"which-story-do-you-believe-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.burningchaff.com\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"Which story do you believe? (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burningchaff.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0019.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" style=\"width: 600px; max-width: 600px;\" title=\"IMG_0019.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.burningchaff.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0019.jpg?w=600\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John 19: 28-30 NIV<\/p>\n<p>28 Later, knowing that all was now completed, and so that the Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, &#8220;I am thirsty.&#8221; 29 A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus&#8217; lips. 30 When he had received the drink, Jesus said, &#8220;It is finished.&#8221; With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.<\/p>\n<p>When Jesus said &#8220;It is finished.&#8221; He was telling a story. Do you believe it? Or do you believe the many other stories? Stories like:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I need to clean myself up before I come to Christ&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I am a self made (wo)man&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m a good person&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I know how best to live my life&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;ve sinned too much. God can&#8217;t forgive me&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;There are many ways to heaven&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I could go on and on. Everyday, multiple times a day we are faced with alternate stories. When Jesus said &#8220;It is finished&#8221;. He meant it. Carrying around guilt and shame for the wrong you have done. Jesus said&#8230;It is finished! I took that for you. Trying to figure out life with self help books and seminars. Jesus said&#8230;It is finished! I am the light unto your path. Jesus&#8217; story doesn&#8217;t have an end. His story is eternal life. What does your story end with?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 19: 28-30 NIV 28 Later, knowing that all was now completed, and so that the Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, &#8220;I am thirsty.&#8221; 29 A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus&#8217; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.burningchaff.com\/?p=195\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Which story do you believe? (Part 2)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":821772,"featured_media":481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[30,6,20,29],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-story-time","tag-eternal-life","tag-god","tag-jesus","tag-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burningchaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burningchaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burningchaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burningchaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/821772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burningchaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.burningchaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/www.burningchaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burningchaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burningchaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burningchaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burningchaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}