{"id":3298,"date":"2023-10-25T02:35:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3298"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:46","slug":"whatever-is-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3298","title":{"rendered":"WHATEVER IS TRUE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are some important implications that can be drawn from Philippians 4:8-9:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i style=\"font-size: x-large\"><span class=\"reftext\" style=\"background-color: white;color: #001320;font-weight: 700;margin-left: 1px;margin-right: 2px;text-align: justify;text-indent: 25px;vertical-align: text-top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/biblehub.com\/philippians\/4-8.htm\" style=\"color: #008ae6\">8<\/a><\/span><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #001320;text-align: justify;text-indent: 25px\">Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable\u2014if anything is excellent or praiseworthy\u2014think about such things.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"reftext\" style=\"background-color: white;color: #001320;font-weight: 700;margin-left: 1px;margin-right: 2px;text-align: justify;text-indent: 25px;vertical-align: text-top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/biblehub.com\/philippians\/4-9.htm\" style=\"color: #008ae6\">9<\/a><\/span><\/i><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #001320;text-align: justify;text-indent: 25px\"><i>Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me\u2014put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #001320;text-align: justify;text-indent: 25px\">Here are a few:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #001320;text-align: justify;text-indent: 25px\">All truth, nobility, purity, loveliness, and excellence belongs to the Lord. It doesn&#8217;t have to be Christianized to be worthy of our attention.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n<li><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #001320;text-align: justify;text-indent: 25px\">If we are commanded to &#8220;think on such things&#8221;, we must be capable of some control over our own thoughts. And we need to exercise that control.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n<li><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #001320;text-align: justify;text-indent: 25px\">The true, noble, and praiseworthy things are worthy of our attention in and of themselves. They don&#8217;t have to be a means to some other end. Relaxing in an easy chair with my eyes closed while listening to a piece of music by Mozart is an excellent use of time.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n<li><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #001320;text-align: justify;text-indent: 25px\">Whatever is false, whatever is ignoble, whatever is wrong, whatever is polluted, whatever is ugly, whatever is debased &#8211; anything which is terrible or mockworthy &#8211; don&#8217;t dwell on such things.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n<li><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #001320;text-align: justify;text-indent: 25px\">We especially need to take note of people who live lives of truth and beauty and nobility &#8211; and then model our lives after them. We are not only to <b><i>think <\/i><\/b>on such things, we are to <b><i>live <\/i><\/b>them.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some important implications that can be drawn from Philippians 4:8-9: 8Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable\u2014if anything is excellent or praiseworthy\u2014think about such things.\u00a09Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me\u2014put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3299,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}