{"id":2356,"date":"2023-02-05T11:05:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T17:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2023-02-07T14:39:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T20:39:13","slug":"the-problem-with-self-righteousness-romans-212-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=2356","title":{"rendered":"The Problem with Self-Righteousness (Romans 2:12-29)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2-05-23.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Self-effort is pursuing righteousness by trying hard to observe the right rules, regulations and rituals.<br>Romans 2:12<br>Romans 2:13<br>James 2:10-11<br>Romans 2:14-16<br>Romans 2:17-20<br>Romans 2:21-24<br>Romans 2:25-27<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Problem with Self-Effort: Keeping all the rules is seen as the way to get into heaven. But even when we fail to keep them, we still expect to receive a good judgement from God in the end.<br>There is almost always a loophole: something else we can DO to make us right when we fail to follow the other rules.<br>Romans 2:28-29<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Summary: Salvation can\u2019t be attained by self-effort. It\u2019s only possible through Jesus. It\u2019s an issue of the heart. It\u2019s a matter of the Spirit.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matthew 5:17-20<br>When it comes to reaching others, help them see how exhausting and futile self-effort really is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-1f970993-4f92-4cfb-a302-ef0f2864ed0c\" href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2-05-23.mp3\">The Problem With Self-Effort, Romans 2:12-29<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2-05-23.mp3\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-1f970993-4f92-4cfb-a302-ef0f2864ed0c\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-effort is pursuing righteousness by trying hard to observe the right rules, regulations and rituals.Romans 2:12Romans 2:13James 2:10-11Romans 2:14-16Romans 2:17-20Romans 2:21-24Romans 2:25-27 The Problem with Self-Effort: Keeping all the rules is seen as the way to get into heaven. But even when we fail to keep them, we still expect to receive a good judgement &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=2356\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Problem with Self-Righteousness (Romans 2:12-29)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-romans","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2356"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2362,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions\/2362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}