{"id":1944,"date":"2011-08-06T23:54:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T23:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=1944"},"modified":"2011-08-06T23:54:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T23:54:33","slug":"wise-as-serpents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/1944\/wise-as-serpents\/","title":{"rendered":"Wise as Serpents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hey Pastor John.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">What does it mean to be &#8220;wise as a serpent&#8221;?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Mxxxxxx<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"> ===============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hi Mxxxxxx.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Serpents were known to be cunning because of their stealth. people didn&#8217;t know where serpents would show up. They could slide in and not without being noticed and could be in a place without anyone knowing. The serpent in the garden of Eden was very crafty. Eden didn&#8217;t know where the serpent was going with his words.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>In telling his disciples to be wise as serpents, Jesus was counseling them to be discerning and not to talk a lot, and certainly not to throw their &#8220;pearls&#8221; before swine. Solomon said that fools utter everything that&#8217;s on their minds, and he also said that if you don&#8217;t talk much, people around you will automatically think you are wise. But more to the point, I think, is that if you are as quiet as a serpent, you learn to depend more on your other senses; in particular, you listen better and, consequently, you learn more.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Pastor John. What does it mean to be &#8220;wise as a serpent&#8221;? Mxxxxxx =============== Hi Mxxxxxx. Serpents were known to be cunning because of their stealth. people didn&#8217;t know where serpents would show up. They could slide in and not without being noticed and could be in a place without anyone knowing. The serpent [&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-1944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}