{"id":1224,"date":"2011-12-15T22:44:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T04:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:20:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:20:45","slug":"what-went-ye-out-for-to-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1224","title":{"rendered":"What Went Ye out For to See"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Matthew 11:1-14<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Context: John sent from prison to ask Jesus a question that had began to bear upon him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I: The man called John Baptist.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. He was a cousin to Jesus.<br \/>\n2. He was a child of Promise.<!--more--><br \/>\n3. He was possessed by the one idea of preparing the way for the Lord.<br \/>\n4. His appearance was rugged, his speach was plain, and his heart was on fire.<\/p>\n<p><strong>II: What was there to cause the people to go out into the Wilderness to hear him?<\/strong><br \/>\n1. There was a General looking for the appearance of a Prophet.<br \/>\n2. His message was heart searching.<br \/>\n3. He was a country Preacher.<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: John was stable in an unstable Generation.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. He wasn&#8217;t a reed shaken by every wind.<br \/>\n2. He wasn&#8217;t like Reuben.<br \/>\n3. He wasn&#8217;t &#8220;tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine.&#8221;<br \/>\n4. He wasn&#8217;t a double minded man taht was unstable in all his ways.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IV: John&#8217;s stability was in Jesus.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. John didn&#8217;t come to exalt himself.<br \/>\n2. When in doubt he took his problem to Jesus.<br \/>\n3. John&#8217;s house was built upon the solid rock.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If your life is unstable you ought to take it to Jesus.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>If you are a doubter go tell Him your problems.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew 11:1-14 Context: John sent from prison to ask Jesus a question that had began to bear upon him. I: The man called John Baptist. 1. He was a cousin to Jesus. 2. He was a child of Promise.<\/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-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224"}],"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=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}