{"id":134419,"date":"2025-01-24T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134419"},"modified":"2025-01-24T18:01:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T23:01:01","slug":"friday-food-for-thought-from-don-fortner-on-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134419","title":{"rendered":"Friday Food for Thought from Don Fortner on Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><blockquote>\u2018[Note the]&#8230;.high honour our Lord places upon marriage. By his presence at the marriage feast, the Son of God said, \u2018This is an honourable thing\u2019 (Genesis 1:28; 2:18\u201325; Hebrews 13:4). One of the first steps toward moral decadence in any society is a low esteem for this ordinance of God. Where there is no sanctity of marriage, there is no regard for God or his law, no regard for moral decency, and no regard for human life. These things stand and fall together!<\/blockquote><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;Quoted by yours truly in last Sunday&#8217;s sermon from Don Fortner of <em>Grace Baptist Church of Danville<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>KY<\/em>, who pastored there for over 40 years and died in 2020<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The only way for one of God\u2019s elect to become unaccepted is for God to reject his own Son, for we are in him! Until God rejects Christ, he cannot, and will not, reject those who are in Christ. This is our blessed security!  \u2018He hath made us accepted in the beloved.\u2019 Don Fortner. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GtkiuwyJB9\">pic.twitter.com\/GtkiuwyJB9<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The High Calvinist. (@SavedbygraceIII) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SavedbygraceIII\/status\/1793610232050180314?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018[Note the]&#8230;.high honour our Lord places upon marriage. By his presence at the marriage feast, the Son of God said, \u2018This is an honourable thing\u2019 (Genesis 1:28; 2:18\u201325; Hebrews 13:4). One of the first steps toward moral decadence in any<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134419\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,168,98,184,177,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134421,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134419\/revisions\/134421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}