{"id":1273,"date":"2009-02-08T13:58:16","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T13:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=210"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:29:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:29:44","slug":"attention-to-the-witness-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1273","title":{"rendered":"Attention To The Witness Of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We are to begin meeting today in Lake Village, AR. Let us continue to ponder I Thessalonians,\u00a0 the theme of\u00a0\u00a0which is &#8220;While Waiting for the King&#8221;. In chapter two and verses 5-11 Paul gives attention to our witness. In verse 5-7 and verse 11 Paul speaks of <em>the approach of our witness<\/em>. Paul said\u00a0I didn&#8217;t come with flattering words or to see what I could get from you. In verse six he tells I didn&#8217;t come to get glory or for you to take care of me. In verse 7 and 11, Paul said I came like a\u00a0mother who is nursing her child. He came as a father who exhorts and comforts his child. My friend as we wait for the Lord are we sharing our faith? O how weak I am in this area. What is our motives when we do share? May it be for no other reason but His glory. In verse 8 we find <em>the affection of our witness<\/em>. Paul said I didn&#8217;t come to just share \u00a0the gospel but my own soul with you, because you\u00a0 are so dear to me.I find in verse 9\u00a0<em>the admonishment to our witness<\/em>. Paul tells he worked day and night. In other places he tells he laboured making tents. Why did Paul work to make a living? He didn&#8217;t want anyone to say he shared the gospel just for money. My, my, let us who preach check our motives today. In verse 10 we find <em>the actions for our<\/em> <em>witness<\/em>. Paul said I behaved holy, justly, and unblamealy before you all. As we wait let us so live that no one can point a finger at our life.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are to begin meeting today in Lake Village, AR. Let us continue to ponder I Thessalonians,\u00a0 the theme of\u00a0\u00a0which is &#8220;While Waiting for the King&#8221;. In chapter two and [&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-1273","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\/1273","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=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6494,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions\/6494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}