{"id":1825,"date":"2013-12-20T12:15:51","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T18:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:20:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:20:44","slug":"what-went-ye-out-for-to-see-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1825","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;What Went Ye Out for to See?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Matthew 11:1-14<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context: <\/strong>John sent from prison to ask Jesus a question that had began to bear upon him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I: The Man Called John Baptist:<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. He was a cousin to Jesus.<br \/>\n2. He was a child of promise.<br \/>\n3. He was possessed by the one idea of preparing the way for the Lord.<br \/>\n4. His appearance was rugged, his speech 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?<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. 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.<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. He was not a reed shaken by every wind.<br \/>\n2. He was not like Reuben.<br \/>\n3. He was not &#8220;tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine.&#8221;<br \/>\n4. He was not a double-minded man that was unstable in all his ways.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IV: John Stability was in Jesus.<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. John did not 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.<br \/>\nIf 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. 3. He was possessed by the one idea of preparing the way for the Lord. 4. [&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-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825"}],"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=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1826,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions\/1826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}