{"id":1285,"date":"2009-03-03T16:58:43","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T16:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=254"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:29:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:29:43","slug":"an-admonishment-about-our-damnation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1285","title":{"rendered":"An Admonishment About Our Damnation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I desire today to muse on Chapter 5 and verses 8 and 9 while we wait for our King. In verse 9 Paul speaks of the wrath of God. The word &#8216;<em>wrath<\/em>&#8216; speaks of damnation and total destruction of all. In the text the admonishment is made to us because of <em>our awareness<\/em>. We are of the day and we are asked to be sober. The word &#8216;<em>sober<\/em>&#8216; has the idea of being on guard and alert. This carries with it a deep sense of spiritual awareness. The Lord tells us this state of soberness is brought about by much watching in prayer. This admonishment about damnation is given to us because of <em>our armour<\/em>. We are told to put on our breastplate of faith and love. The breastplate speaks of our righteous position in Christ which produces in us a dependent faith and devotional love for the King. This armour also includes a helmet of hope. His righteousness produces in us a confident expectation as we wait. We are given this admonishment because of <em>our appointment<\/em>. We who are righteous have no appointment with the wrath, damnation, and utter destruction of our God. Our appointment is to obtain one, the salvation of our Lord Jesus Christ and oppress the other, the wrath of God. The wrath of God will not come near the righteous subjects of our King. My, my, what great truths to be made aware of today. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I desire today to muse on Chapter 5 and verses 8 and 9 while we wait for our King. In verse 9 Paul speaks of the wrath of God. The [&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-1285","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\/1285","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=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6479,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions\/6479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}