{"id":101,"date":"2010-01-22T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=101"},"modified":"2010-01-22T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T13:12:00","slug":"in-spite-of-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"In spite of it all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Wretches whom I did not know tore at me without ceasing; like profane mockers at a feast, they gnash at me with their teeth.&#8221; (Ps. 35:15,16)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This scripture must be in part a prophesy of the suffering\u00a0our Lord would experience.\u00a0 <em>He was tempted in all points as we are.\u00a0 He was acquainted with grief.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>And yet, in spite of it all, he was faithful to God,\u00a0his Father.\u00a0 He did not turn out of the way when the way became extremely difficult &#8211; indeed, impossible apart from the grace of God.\u00a0 <em>And angels came and ministered to him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He is our great high priest.\u00a0 Our Savior.\u00a0 Our example.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Wretches whom I did not know tore at me without ceasing; like profane mockers at a feast, they gnash at me with their teeth.&#8221; (Ps. 35:15,16) This scripture must be in part a prophesy of the suffering\u00a0our Lord would experience.\u00a0 He was tempted in all points as we are.\u00a0 He was acquainted with grief.\u00a0 And &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=101\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In spite of it all&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}