{"id":2158,"date":"2011-05-18T11:02:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T11:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:27:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:27:33","slug":"ungodly-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=2158","title":{"rendered":"Ungodly Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from\u00a0\u00a0Nahum 3:9-19\u00a0an another of the reasons for <strong><em>Nineveh&#8217;s fall.<\/em><\/strong> We have looked at <strong><em>unbridled\u00a0 depravity and unrighteous idolatry<\/em><\/strong>. Today I draw our attention to <strong><em>ungodly pride<\/em><\/strong>. The\u00a0Lord gives the example in verses 9-11 of the Egyptians. They thought no man could conquer them yet they fail. They are\u00a0told\u00a0 in verse 12 their stronghold would be like ripe figs and\u00a0 fall into the mouth of their enemies. The Lord\u00a0told them in verses 15-17 the enemy will come in like a swarm of insects and leave nothing when they are done. God said through\u00a0Nahum\u00a0 verses 18-19 that because of your pride you will be like sheep without a shepherd. God will put a wound that cannot be healed upon you and all that hear it will clap\u00a0their hands.\u00a0Nahum ends\u00a0his book with the question which\u00a0 is, on\u00a0whom hath\u00a0not thy wickedness poured continually? Do we think God will ignore and wink\u00a0at our wickedness in America forever?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from\u00a0\u00a0Nahum 3:9-19\u00a0an another of the reasons for Nineveh&#8217;s fall. We have looked at unbridled\u00a0 depravity and unrighteous idolatry. Today I draw our attention to ungodly pride. [&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-2158","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\/2158","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=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5896,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions\/5896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}