{"id":1435,"date":"2012-09-17T01:23:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T06:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2012-09-04T16:56:37","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T21:56:37","slug":"what-a-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/?p=1435","title":{"rendered":"What a Mess!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1<sup>st<\/sup> John 1:5-9<\/strong> <em>This is the message we heard from Jesus and now declare to you: God is light, and there is no darkness in him at all. <sup>6<\/sup>So we are lying if we say we have fellowship with God but go on living in spiritual darkness; we are not practicing the truth. <sup>7<\/sup>But if we are living in the light, as God is in the light, then we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from all sin. <sup>8<\/sup>If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth. <sup>9<\/sup>But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Click on the link below to listen to the talk:<\/p>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/110220-whatamess.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1435-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/110220-whatamess.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"110220-whatamess.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 46:51 &#8212; 21.4MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1st John 1:5-9 This is the message we heard from Jesus and now declare to you: God is light, and there is no darkness in him at all. 6So we are lying if we say we have fellowship with God but go on living in spiritual darkness; we are not practicing the truth. 7But if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"1st John 1:5-9 This is the message we heard from Jesus and now declare to you: God is light, and there is no darkness in him at all. 6So we are lying if we say we have fellowship with God but go on living in spiritual darkness; we are not practicing the truth. 7But if\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Bullfrog\"\/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/?p=1435\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 4.9.8\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pastor Frog | It Rocks!\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What a Mess! 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