{"id":5482,"date":"2018-09-24T10:26:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T14:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5482"},"modified":"2018-09-12T10:36:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T14:36:33","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-september-24-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5482","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for September 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"7kt1l\" data-offset-key=\"3sbmg-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"3sbmg-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3sbmg-0-0\">&#8220;What is sought is obedience, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. These are the fruit of God that need to be returned by us to him by the &#8220;new tenants&#8221; The question is how do we return this fruit? The answer is as simple as it is hard \u2013 to do these things, all these things, to our fellow human in the name of the Trinitarian God. The identifying of what we need to do is the simple bit. The hard bit is this: &#8220;love your enemies and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return\u2026 Be merciful even as [God] is merciful&#8221; (Luke 6:35).&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"7kt1l\" data-offset-key=\"5tl8q-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"5tl8q-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"5tl8q-0-0\">(Fr Themi Adamopoulo on the &#8216;fruit&#8217; in Matthew 21)<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"5tl8q-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5483\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2013-09-05_3413-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2013-09-05_3413-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2013-09-05_3413-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2013-09-05_3413-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What is sought is obedience, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. These are the fruit of God that need to be returned by us to him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5484,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482\/revisions\/5484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}