{"id":2576,"date":"2013-01-09T09:15:48","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T13:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2013-01-12T09:28:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T13:28:32","slug":"a-negative-benediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2576","title":{"rendered":"A negative benediction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>They will&#8230;gird themselves with sackcloth and weep for you with bitterness of heart <em>and<\/em> bitter wailing.\u00a0In their wailing for you they will take up a lamentation,\u00a0and lament for you: &#8220;What <em>city is<\/em> like Tyre, destroyed in the midst of the sea?&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Ezekiel 27:31-32<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Of great value is the\u00a0benediction pronounced at the end of our worship service.\u00a0 We hear it and receive it as a blessing from the Lord Himself to His people.\u00a0 He is<em> for<\/em> us, and we are for Him.<\/p>\n<p>But to hear, as these men of Tyre heard from the mouth of the prophet, that the Lord is <em>against<\/em> them.\u00a0 What a message of despair!\u00a0 What a negative benediction for all those who would prove themselves the enemies of God.\u00a0 He is against them.\u00a0 They are against Him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They will&#8230;gird themselves with sackcloth and weep for you with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.\u00a0In their wailing for you they will take up a lamentation,\u00a0and lament for you: &#8220;What city is like Tyre, destroyed in the midst of the sea?&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Ezekiel 27:31-32 Of great value is the\u00a0benediction pronounced at the end of our worship &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2576\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A negative benediction&#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\/2576"}],"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=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2578,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions\/2578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}