{"id":1980,"date":"2011-03-07T12:05:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T12:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1980"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:27:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:27:36","slug":"the-message-perception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1980","title":{"rendered":"The Message Perception"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let us muse today from Jonah 1:2b and the\u00a0message perception<\/em><\/strong>. When he was told the message he was cry of yet forty days and Nineveh\u00a0would be destroyed, he left because he would rather see them go to hell. When he heard of their doom\u00a0I can almost see him rejoiced over them falling into hell. I wonder how often we would rather see people go to hell than\u00a0open our mouth and share the gospel. It seems like the thought of 1\u00a0million people going to hell with\u00a0their clothes on should cause us to\u00a0cry in warning to the masses, but\u00a0how often we go through life and never say a word. I think of the Roman goddess of opportunity who on her front\u00a0has a multitude of\u00a0arms which when you’re facing her you could grab on to, but\u00a0once you are on her side or\u00a0in the back of her she is slick. Let us take\u00a0every opportunity God gives to us to tell the old old story this day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let us muse today from Jonah 1:2b and the\u00a0message perception. When he was told the message he was cry of yet forty days and Nineveh\u00a0would be destroyed, he left because […]<\/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-1980","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\/1980","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=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5950,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions\/5950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}