{"id":1621,"date":"2010-09-24T07:51:02","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T07:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:13","slug":"the-commission-of-tychius-and-onesimus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1621","title":{"rendered":"The Commission of Tychius and Onesimus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse today from Colossians 4:7 and <em><strong>the commission by Paul<\/strong><\/em> of two great church workers in the Lord.\u00a0He sends <em><strong>Onesimus\u00a0with the book of Philemon\u00a0and Tychius\u00a0with the book of Colossians<\/strong><\/em> to be delivered to those to whom\u00a0they were\u00a0addressed. You remember that Onesimus was the runaway slave. He trusted both to if need be risk their very lives to deliver these books. Little did the two men know the morning they boarded the\u00a0ship that the parchments they carried would outlast the Roman empire, it would be translated in\u00a0thousands of languages, and it would be studied by millions of people. Let us remember our Lord has entrusted to us the gospel, let us deliver the message to those the Lord puts in our path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse today from Colossians 4:7 and the commission by Paul of two great church workers in the Lord.\u00a0He sends Onesimus\u00a0with the book of Philemon\u00a0and Tychius\u00a0with the book of Colossians [&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-1621","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\/1621","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=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6094,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions\/6094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}