{"id":1277,"date":"2009-02-17T12:32:45","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T12:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=224"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:29:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:29:44","slug":"waiting-with-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1277","title":{"rendered":"Waiting With Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Let us move today into chapter 3 of I Thessalonians, the theme of which has been, &#8220;While waiting\u00a0 for the King&#8221;. In chapter 3 the key verse is verse 13, which gives us the confidence to wait with\u00a0 authority. The text says, &#8220;To the end He may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints&#8221;.\u00a0 Paul mentions His coming in every chapter. My, My, what authority it gives us to wait a little longer. Step into chapter three and verses 1-4, were Paul shares with us the authority of appointment. In verse one I find we are appointed to loneliness. Paul thought it good to be left in Athens(Greece) alone. When my wife and I\u00a0wrestle years ago to come to Athens, Ga. this was the verse that said \u00a0this is the way walk ye in it.\u00a0 I see in verse two that we are appointed to labor. Paul said he sent Timothy to share the gospel, establish them, and comfort them in their faith. Is this\u00a0not to be our mission to others while we \u00a0wait for the \u00a0King to come? In verse 3-4 I find He has appointed us to lowliness.\u00a0 Paul tell us while we \u00a0wait, labor, and share, we can expect affliction and tribulation. Paul is not painting a cake walk picture today. We in the USA have not suffered as others have for the gospel. Let us be sure as we wait our time, the arena of suffering will soon come and that without warning.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us move today into chapter 3 of I Thessalonians, the theme of which has been, &#8220;While waiting\u00a0 for the King&#8221;. In chapter 3 the key verse is verse 13, [&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-1277","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\/1277","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=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6489,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions\/6489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}