{"id":1272,"date":"2009-02-07T13:55:09","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T13:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=206"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:29:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:29:45","slug":"waiting-with-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1272","title":{"rendered":"Waiting With Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Let us begin today to ponder I Thessalonians chapter two.In verse 19 we have again the mention of the coming of our Lord. His coming is mentioned in every chapter, thus the theme, <em>While Waiting For The King<\/em>. In this chapter Paul calls on us to give attention to \u00a0some things while we wait. Let us muse today on verses 1-4 where he asks us to give attention to the Word of God. In verse 1-2 Paul speaks of the E<em>ntrance of the Word<\/em>. He said he gave them the Word knowing it&#8217;s entrance would not be in vain. The entrance of the Word at Philippi had caused great suffering ,shameful treatment,and contention, but oh what fruit. A rich lady who sold cloth, a demon possessed girl, and a jailor and his family were all gloriously saved. My friend it matters not our situation. We must share the word. In verse 3 we find an E<em>xhortation from the Word<\/em>. The word &#8216;exhortation&#8217;\u00a0gives the idea of explaining fully. Paul did not share the Word with deceit or guile, he just told it like it was. We cannot trim the Word so as not to\u00a0offend. If we offend, let us correct that, but if the Word offend, tell on. In verse four Paul tells us of being E<em>ntrusted with the Word<\/em>. If we are saved we have been \u00a0entrusted with the gospel. It is a \u00a0great treasure. Paul says God is looking at our hearts. Share it not to \u00a0please men but the Lord.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us begin today to ponder I Thessalonians chapter two.In verse 19 we have again the mention of the coming of our Lord. His coming is mentioned in every chapter, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6495,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/6495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}