{"id":1650,"date":"2010-10-29T10:22:58","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T10:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1574"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:11","slug":"the-cycle-of-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1650","title":{"rendered":"The Cycle Of Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Hosea 4:5 and\u00a09 and <strong><em>the cycle of evil<\/em><\/strong>. We have heard the saying as goes the leadership so goes the people. As goes the spiritual leadership so goes the church. In verse five he speaks of the wayward <strong><em>mother.<\/em><\/strong> Whenever the parents are weak spiritually often so will the children be weak spiritually. In verse nine he addresses the <strong><em>preachers<\/em><\/strong>. The reason\u00a0for a weak pew\u00a0is often because there is a weak pulpit\u00a0Where there is a man of God who confronts the people from the pulpit\u00a0and to\u00a0their face for sin, you will find there a\u00a0strong people. Let us thank the Lord if we have a man of God who will confront\u00a0sin before the people in preaching and to their face personally. That my friend is a great blessing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Hosea 4:5 and\u00a09 and the cycle of evil. We have heard the saying as goes the leadership so goes the people. As goes the spiritual [&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-1650","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\/1650","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=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6065,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions\/6065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}