{"id":859,"date":"2021-08-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/ministries\/universities\/america\/exposing_unfruitful_works_of_darkness\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T17:26:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T17:26:50","slug":"exposing_unfruitful_works_of_darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/the-magazine\/exposing_unfruitful_works_of_darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"Exposing Unfruitful Works of Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s worth letting the Holy Spirit search your heart to see if you\u2019ve been exposing the fruitless deeds of darkness, or have instead for various reasons, not pleased God by refraining.  You will find fellow Christians may chide you for pleasing God in this way, but sadly even Christians are sometimes taken captive by the enemy to do his will, and don\u2019t even know it (2 Timothy 2:26).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s worth letting the Holy Spirit search your heart to see if you\u2019ve been exposing the fruitless deeds of darkness, or have instead for various reasons, not pleased God by refraining.  You will find fellow Christians may chide you for pleasing God in this way, but sadly even Christians are sometimes taken captive by the enemy to do his will, and don\u2019t even know it (2 Timothy 2:26).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[161,160,90,159],"university":[],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-confrontation","tag-ephesians-510-14","tag-repentance","tag-return-to-me-august-2021-fast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2062,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions\/2062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"university","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/university?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}