{"id":352166,"date":"2026-07-28T07:26:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T11:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/?p=352166"},"modified":"2026-07-28T09:32:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:32:40","slug":"lust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/post\/lust\/","title":{"rendered":"Lust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color: #f2f8fc; padding: 2em; border-left: 5px solid #ccc; margin: 1em 0;\"><p>For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. (Titus 3:3)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nWhen we were restored through God&#8217;s forgiveness, we were like all those who live in sin: foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another, for these are the fruits of darkness.<\/p>\n<p>But now, set free, we seek love, which is a fruit of the Holy Spirit. We share with our neighbor the good we have obtained from the Word: our faith, with all our understanding and with all our strength, in praise of our Lord.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. (Titus 3:3) &nbsp; When we were restored through God&#8217;s forgiveness, we were like all those who live in sin: foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":352168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[323,6248,377],"tags":[],"site":[],"class_list":["post-352166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-school-of-faith","category-ester-bezerra","category-women"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352169,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352166\/revisions\/352169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352166"},{"taxonomy":"site","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site?post=352166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}