{"id":729,"date":"2011-09-24T08:32:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T13:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=729"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:26","slug":"adjustment-to-hard-situations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=729","title":{"rendered":"Adjustment to Hard Situations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> I: &#8220;Behold I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n1. To stay meant death by sword, famine or pestilence.<br \/>\n2. To go meant life as a captive.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong> II: Jeremiahs stand was not popular.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. He made it clear that the one who marches when the bugal blew is not always the true patriot.<br \/>\n2. The true citizen is one who does what he thinks is best for his beloved country.<br \/>\n3. This kind of courage is not always popular.<br \/>\n4. The future showed that the nation would have been wise to have listened to Jeremiah.<\/p>\n<p><strong> III: Jedikiah respected his preacher. Chpt. 37:3<\/strong><br \/>\n1. He was not sure of his own ability to reach the ear of God.<br \/>\n2. He wanted Jeremiah to use his influence to get God to remove the Chaldeans.<br \/>\n3. Jedekiah and the people did not want to seek Gods will, they only wanted Gods help.<\/p>\n<p><strong> IV: Jedekiah was afraid of what others would say: 37:17<\/strong><br \/>\n1. He kept hoping that God would change his mind.<br \/>\n2. He had heard the truth, but didn&#8217;t have the courage to act upon it.<br \/>\n3. If he lived today he would be saying &#8220;That&#8217;s right, preacher.&#8221;<br \/>\n4. Jeremiah assumed that it would be safer to trust God than men.<\/p>\n<p><strong> &#8220;If a man must fera, let him fear God.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I: &#8220;Behold I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.&#8221; 1. To stay meant death by sword, famine or pestilence. 2. To go meant life as a captive.<\/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-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729"}],"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=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1500,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/1500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}