{"id":7638,"date":"2018-02-18T14:37:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T14:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=7638"},"modified":"2018-02-18T14:37:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T14:37:41","slug":"beware-of-presumptuous-oe-surrogate-fatherhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=7638","title":{"rendered":"Beware of presumptuous or surrogate Fatherhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Sam Kputu<\/strong>.<br \/>\nWe live in age when many assume a relationship with God just because they are close to one spiritual &#8216;Daddy&#8217; or &#8216;Father-in-the -Lord&#8217;. They forget that our God neither has grandchildren nor does He foster children as a surrogate Father. He only recognises and accepts Children He fathers through Christ (John 1:12)_<br \/>\n<strong>The Pharisees\u00a0<\/strong>wrongly assumed and thought that they could leverage on their relationship with &#8216;Daddy&#8217; Abraham to gain God&#8217;s attention. How wrong and mistaken they were. For only a right relationship with God through Christ Jesus, evidenced by a transformed life, makes us acceptable in God&#8217;s family as His children. Beware, you can never leverage on a relationship with any spiritual &#8216;daddy&#8217; or &#8216;father&#8217; to gain God&#8217;s acceptance. <strong>Infact, call no man on earth your spiritual Father<\/strong>\u00a0(Matt.23:9)_<br \/>\n<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/share\/clipdata_180218_153219_547.sdoc--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sam Kputu. We live in age when many assume a relationship with God just because they are close to one spiritual &#8216;Daddy&#8217; or &#8216;Father-in-the -Lord&#8217;. They forget that our God neither has grandchildren nor does He foster children as a surrogate Father. He only recognises and accepts Children He fathers through Christ (John 1:12)_ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}