{"id":2219,"date":"2011-06-04T11:14:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T11:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=2219"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:27:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:27:32","slug":"trust-gods-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=2219","title":{"rendered":"Trust God&#8217;s Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us begin today to muse from\u00a0Habakkuk chapter 2 and a\u00a0section I have entitled <strong><em>the prophet&#8217;s awaiting<\/em><\/strong>. In this section God gives the profit 3 assignments one of which we have already discussed\u00a0and it\u00a0was\u00a0<strong><em>write the word<\/em><\/strong>. The second we begin today is\u00a0<strong><em>trust the word<\/em><\/strong>. It is in this section that\u00a0Habakkuk will\u00a0contrast the sinner and saint&#8217;s relationship to the word. Among\u00a0sinners there is such an overwhelming spirit from the world there is no desire to trust the word.\u00a0Habakkuk uses <strong><em>five woes<\/em><\/strong> to describe the sinner&#8217;s relationship with the world. We will look at these five but I noticed that all of them flow from <strong><em>the heart of pride<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0mentioned in verse four. Let us be careful of anything that hints of self being lifted up.<strong><em> Remember the word of God will keep you from\u00a0sin and sin especially the sin of pride <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0will keep you from the word of God.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us begin today to muse from\u00a0Habakkuk chapter 2 and a\u00a0section I have entitled the prophet&#8217;s awaiting. In this section God gives the profit 3 assignments one of which we [&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-2219","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\/2219","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=2219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5881,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions\/5881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}