{"id":1784,"date":"2013-12-09T14:45:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T20:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:20:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:20:44","slug":"there-was-a-man-sent-from-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1784","title":{"rendered":"There Was A Man Sent From God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John 1:6-9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. God Sent A Man to Prepare the Way:<br \/>\n<strong>a. <\/strong>His birth was a miracle.<br \/>\n<strong>b.\u00a0<\/strong>His training was in the wilderness.<br \/>\n<strong>c. <\/strong>His message was different.<br \/>\n<strong>d. <\/strong>His life was short but true.<\/p>\n<p>2. Augustus and the Roman Empire:<br \/>\n<strong>a. <\/strong>Israel was looking for help.<br \/>\n<strong>b. <\/strong>The Roman government prepared roads and made them safe to travel.<br \/>\n<strong>c. <\/strong>The Greeks prepared the language.<br \/>\n<strong>d. <\/strong>Augustus sent out the orders to be taxed.<\/p>\n<p>3. In the Fullness of Time:<br \/>\n<strong>a. <\/strong>Men were hopeless and helpless in sin.<br \/>\n<strong>b. <\/strong>Prophecy caused them to look for a King.<br \/>\n<strong>c. <\/strong>John decreased and Jesus increased.<br \/>\n<strong>d. <\/strong>His life was short, but it changed the course of the world, and gave hope to lost man and made Heaven rejoice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 1:6-9 1. God Sent A Man to Prepare the Way: a. His birth was a miracle. b.\u00a0His training was in the wilderness. c. His message was different. d. His life was short but true. 2. Augustus and the Roman Empire: a. Israel was looking for help. b. The Roman government prepared roads and made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1785,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions\/1785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}