{"id":2613,"date":"2011-10-27T09:29:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T09:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=2613"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:26:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:26:58","slug":"gods-covenant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=2613","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s Covenant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Malachi 2: 5-7 and a section I have entitled <strong><em>the Lord&#8217;s announcement.<\/em><\/strong> It is in this section we find <strong><em>God&#8217;s covenant<\/em><\/strong>. Our Lord reminds the priest of\u00a0 Malachi&#8217;s day of the priest of Levi&#8217;s day. They were poles apart in comparison. We are told in verses 4-5\u00a0the priest of Levi lived\u00a0under a\u00a0covenant of reverential fear for God. They\u00a0lived a\u00a0\u00a0<strong><em> word<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<strong><em>of example<\/em><\/strong> in\u00a0the Lord\u00a0 seen in verse\u00a05 in the phrase the law\u00a0of truth was in their mouth. They had a <strong><em>walk of\u00a0 example <\/em><\/strong>seen in the phrase they walked with God in peace and equity. They also had a<strong><em>\u00a0witness of example<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0seen in the phrase that they did turn away from their iniquity. In verse seven\u00a0Malachi told them that they should conduct every area of their life by the word of God. When I look at these admonitions I see how\u00a0much we fail in being a Christlike in our\u00a0example to the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Malachi 2: 5-7 and a section I have entitled the Lord&#8217;s announcement. It is in this section we find God&#8217;s covenant. Our Lord reminds the [&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-2613","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\/2613","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=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5768,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions\/5768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}