{"id":5834,"date":"2017-04-11T08:07:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/?post_type=oyb&#038;p=5834"},"modified":"2017-04-11T08:10:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:10:11","slug":"for-whoever-exalts-himself-will-be-humbled-and-he-who-humbles-himself-will-be-exalted-luke-1411-nkjv","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/for-whoever-exalts-himself-will-be-humbled-and-he-who-humbles-himself-will-be-exalted-luke-1411-nkjv","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted&#8221; (Luke 14:11 NKJV)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus taught this timeless spiritual principle promoting humility over self-promotion. He illustrated the principle with a parable concerning seat selection at a wedding banquet. He observed that it would be better to take a &#8220;lowly&#8221; seat at the table and have the master elevate you to a better one, than vice versa. A corollary to this principle is &#8220;Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth&#8221; (Prov. 27:2).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus taught this timeless spiritual principle promoting humility over self-promotion. He illustrated the principle with a parable concerning seat selection at a wedding banquet. He observed that it would be better to take a &#8220;lowly&#8221; seat at the table and have the master elevate you to a better one, than vice versa. A corollary to this principle is &#8220;Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth&#8221; (Prov. 27:2). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[1309],"scripture-chapter":[1347],"oyb_day":[1628],"location":[],"class_list":["post-5834","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","scripture-book-luke","scripture-chapter-1347","oyb_day-april-11"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/5834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oyb"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5834"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=5834"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=5834"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=5834"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=5834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}