{"id":1855,"date":"2011-01-28T12:48:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T12:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:27:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:27:38","slug":"antidote-to-being-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1855","title":{"rendered":"Antidote To Being Simple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Amos 5:21-24 and <strong><em>the antidote for being simple<\/em><\/strong>. We noticed on yesterday\u00a0Amos gave a woe of warning\u00a0 to the simple who\u00a0just without\u00a0thought wished for the day of the Lord. In our text\u00a0he gives the\u00a0antidotes to help us with our simple thoughtless spirit.\u00a0One is found in verses 21-24\u00a0 when he tells us to <strong><em>look around. <\/em><\/strong>We find in this verse God is fed up with our shallow worship and self-centered ways. In 5:25-27 Amos tells us before we desire the day of the Lord let us<strong><em> look back<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0He tells them of their previous sins\u00a0 and His judgement on\u00a0these sins. Let me add a third antidote to the simple warning and\u00a0that is <strong><em>\u00a0look up<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0B.B.\u00a0Caldwell said his position on the\u00a0second coming\u00a0that he was\u00a0a looker. The writer of Hebrews said that he will appear\u00a0again the second time unto those who are looking for Him. It seems from the text that this is\u00a0the only ones He is coming for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Amos 5:21-24 and the antidote for being simple. We noticed on yesterday\u00a0Amos gave a woe of warning\u00a0 to the simple who\u00a0just without\u00a0thought wished for 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-1855","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\/1855","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=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5984,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions\/5984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}