{"id":1138,"date":"2011-12-03T11:52:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T17:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:09","slug":"the-rose-of-sharon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1138","title":{"rendered":"The Rose of Sharon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Genesis 1:11-13<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>God has a wealth of blessings stored in the grass, herb, and fruit tree.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I: Grass, (5,000 species):<\/strong><br \/>\n1. What would our world be without grass?<br \/>\n2. Grass has blessed man wherever he lives.<br \/>\n3. Grass clothes the Earth with coats of green, blue, brown, etc.<!--more--><br \/>\n4. It feeds the wild and tame beast alike.<br \/>\n5. The grass of by-gone years bless thru coal, etc.<br \/>\n6. &#8220;You never miss the water till the well goes dry.&#8221; (Texans).<\/p>\n<p><strong>II: Herb.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. His word was made popular by the old-fashioned Medicine show.<br \/>\n2. It gives us food for our bodies.<br \/>\n3. From it comes medicine.<br \/>\n4. It holds healing in its leaves or roots.<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: Fruit Trees:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. What would man do without them?<br \/>\n2. Apples, peaches, plums, pears, apricots, etc.<br \/>\n3. Wherever man goes and settles there is some type of fruit tree to bless.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IV: All these show the handwork of God.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. In their design.<br \/>\n2. In the way they turn chemicals into different kinds of blessings.<br \/>\n3. In their reproduction: Sunflower, coconut, cocklebur.<br \/>\n4. In their persistance of doing the Will of God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>V: Scripture is filled with their illustrations.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. The fields are while unto harvest.<br \/>\n2. Faith as a grain of a mustard seed.<br \/>\n3. Soloman not clothed like the lily.<br \/>\n4. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.<br \/>\n5. The Lily of the Valley.<br \/>\n6. The Rose of Sharon.<br \/>\n7. The bread of Life.<br \/>\n8. The vine and the branches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genesis 1:11-13 God has a wealth of blessings stored in the grass, herb, and fruit tree. I: Grass, (5,000 species): 1. What would our world be without grass? 2. Grass has blessed man wherever he lives. 3. Grass clothes the Earth with coats of green, blue, brown, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1384,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions\/1384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}