{"id":2597,"date":"2011-10-23T11:26:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T11:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=2597"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:26:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:26:58","slug":"wherein-have-we-despised-thy-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=2597","title":{"rendered":"Wherein Have We Despised Thy Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Malachi 1:6 and a section I am calling <strong><em>the Lord&#8217;s announcement<\/em><\/strong>. It is in this verse we have another question from\u00a0God&#8217;s people. It is here that God uses two\u00a0titles for\u00a0Himself\u00a0and\u00a0they are Father and Master. These are powerful terms that Jesus uses multiple times when talking about God. If He\u00a0is our father we must take up the position of son if he is our master we must be a servant. The Lord told\u00a0them that if He was their Father they must honor Him\u00a0and fear Him if He was their master but instead\u00a0 He said that they had despised Him. They just shrug it\u00a0off by saying <strong><em>wherein did we despise You?<\/em><\/strong> It was bad enough to be despised by a casual believer but the men of God had despised Him in\u00a0that day. What great hurt comes to the family of God when\u00a0a man of God falls in to sin and brings despite to the name of God among the people of God. Preachers let us\u00a0be on \u00a0guard against such sin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Malachi 1:6 and a section I am calling the Lord&#8217;s announcement. It is in this verse we have another question from\u00a0God&#8217;s people. It is here [&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-2597","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\/2597","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=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5772,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions\/5772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}