{"id":3072,"date":"2026-10-02T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/doubtbusters\/?p=3072"},"modified":"2026-10-01T03:35:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T03:35:38","slug":"how-can-you-tell-when-you-really-believe-youll-live-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/doubtbusters\/how-can-you-tell-when-you-really-believe-youll-live-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"How can you tell when you really believe you&#8217;ll live forever?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because you know the world&#8217;s ways fixes your attention on earth and its fleeting pleasures, so you focus your attention on the teachings Jesus gave for eternal riches:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">Choosing the narrow way everyone else is avoiding; you are patiently enduring God&#8217;s long plan instead of choosing the quick and easy way to get what you want.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Your life is tending toward spiritual growth instead of fleshly comfort.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Being faithful in the work the Lord assigned you.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Giving your goods, time, and money to gospel work that labors to bring souls to eternal life.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Working with the Spirit to live humbly and righteously and so be the kind of person Christ can use to rule the kingdom with Him.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Being an available, faithful servant the Lord can use for His purposes now.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Protecting your heart: you are careful what messages you are picking up, lest they corrupt the spiritual life you have been building up.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">No longer pampering yourself so much, nor depending on extensive leisure pursuits for defining your life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because you know the world&#8217;s ways fixes your attention on earth and its fleeting pleasures, so you focus your attention on the teachings Jesus gave for eternal riches:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1],"tags":[164],"class_list":["post-3072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-uncategorized","tag-judgment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/doubtbusters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/doubtbusters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/doubtbusters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/doubtbusters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/doubtbusters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/doubtbusters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3073,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/doubtbusters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072\/revisions\/3073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/doubtbusters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/doubtbusters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/doubtbusters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}