{"id":2188,"date":"2011-05-27T00:00:32","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T00:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=2188"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:27:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:27:32","slug":"the-haughtiness-of-the-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=2188","title":{"rendered":"The Haughtiness Of The Enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u00a0us muse\u00a0today from\u00a0Habakkuk 1:16-17\u00a0and the section I have called <strong><em>the prophet&#8217;s anxiety<\/em><\/strong>. In this section of <strong><em>counsel for anxiety<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0Habakkuk came upon three great truths. We have\u00a0looked at <strong><em>the holiness of God and the helplessness of man.<\/em><\/strong> Today our text takes us to\u00a0<strong><em>the haughtiness\u00a0of the enemy<\/em><\/strong>. In verse 16 the Babylonians found <strong><em>pride<\/em><\/strong> in their <strong><em>material possession<\/em><\/strong>. In verse 17 they found <strong><em>power<\/em><\/strong> in their <strong><em>military personnel<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0These are the two things\u00a0that often cause the fall of a\u00a0nation. America sure does take pride in her\u00a0great Wall Street and\u00a0stock market and feels the power of her military cannot be taken. Oh\u00a0how foolish we are to build on either of these shifting sands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u00a0us muse\u00a0today from\u00a0Habakkuk 1:16-17\u00a0and the section I have called the prophet&#8217;s anxiety. In this section of counsel for anxiety,\u00a0Habakkuk came upon three great truths. We have\u00a0looked at the holiness of [&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-2188","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\/2188","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=2188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5887,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions\/5887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}