{"id":6955,"date":"2019-09-30T04:15:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/violations-of-the-heart\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:15:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:53","slug":"violations-of-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/violations-of-the-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Violations of the Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Pravda.Ru:<br \/>\n     In Moscow a driver received a fine for crossing a full-line.  However, the photo made by traffic cameras showed that the vehicle was traveling without any violation of traffic rules.<\/p>\n<p>The man could not understand the reason for which he was fined.  Having studied the traffic cam photo in detail, he realized that it was the shadow of his vehicle that crossed the full line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCameras want us to pay fines even if car shadows violate traffic rules,\u201d the man wrote. [1]<br \/>\nClearly,  this  person didn\u2019t actually do anything wrong.  But his run-in with the law illustrates the way many people think about the motives and intentions behind their own actions.  They think of them as mere shadows, not important enough to be counted as violations against God\u2019s laws.  They can\u2019t understand how they could be judged for such things.  But Jesus taught that violations in spirit are just as significant as violations in action.<br \/>\n     \u201cBut I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart\u201d (Matthew 5:28).<br \/>\nIn other words, sins of the heart are  real  sins!<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>1. \u201cMoscow driver fined for shadow of his car,\u201d 29 Aug 2016, Pravda.Ru, < http:\/\/www.pravdareport.com\/news\/society\/stories\/29-08-2016\/135451-car_shadow-0\/ >.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Pravda.Ru: In Moscow a driver received a fine for crossing a full-line. However, the photo made by traffic cameras showed that the vehicle was traveling without any violation of traffic rules. The man could not understand the reason for which he was fined. Having studied the traffic cam photo in detail, he realized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[669,2735,2734,464,2733,2732,2731],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}