{"id":41875,"date":"2026-10-05T16:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T23:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=41875"},"modified":"2026-10-05T16:26:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T23:26:23","slug":"26-1005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-1005\/","title":{"rendered":"Defy the Devil"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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Worshippers of Baal believed they could earn the favor of their god through violence or promiscuous sex. For that reason the priests cut themselves, had prostitutes in the temple, and offered babies in the fire.\u00a0What would such paganism do to a culture? We don\u2019t have to look far to know. What two themes dominate our society? Violence and sex. On average, American youth will witness more than two hundred thousand violent acts on television before the age of eighteen. Thirty-five percent of internet downloads are for pornography.<\/p>\n

If you want to be faithful in a faithless world, dare to defy the devil<\/em>. Yes, he is powerful. But you are a child of the living God! The One who empowered Elijah will empower you.<\/p>\n

\"\"Read more\u00a0Unbreakable Courage<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Worshippers of Baal believed they could earn the favor of their god through violence or promiscuous sex. For that reason the priests cut themselves, had prostitutes in the temple, and offered babies in the fire. What would such paganism do to a culture? We don\u2019t have to look far to know. What two themes dominate our society? Violence and sex. On average, American youth will witness more than two hundred thousand violent acts on television before the age of eighteen. Thirty-five percent of internet downloads are for pornography.<\/p>\n

If you want to be faithful in a faithless world, dare to defy the devil. Yes, he is powerful. But you are a child of the living God! The One who empowered Elijah will empower you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41877,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41875\/revisions\/41877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}