{"id":3456,"date":"2014-06-04T08:59:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T12:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=3456"},"modified":"2014-06-05T08:53:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T12:53:40","slug":"of-whom-i-am-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3456","title":{"rendered":"Of whom I am chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>1 Timothy 1:15<\/em><br \/>\n<em>This\u00a0is\u00a0a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe, O Lord, and I confess that thou art truly the Christ, the Son of the living God, who didst come into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.&#8221; The eastern orthodox are instructed to say this each week upon receiving holy communion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of whom I am chief&#8221;. Can I say this <em>honestly<\/em>? I have not led a profligate lifestyle. \u00a0I&#8217;ve never really been harsh to anyone, let alone been guilty of murder. \u00a0How can I relate to this verse of Scripture?<\/p>\n<p>In the grand scheme of things, profligacy and murder, although wicked, are not the worst sins. \u00a0They are but children of their mother. \u00a0The mother of all sins is the sin of unbelief.<\/p>\n<p>My sin of unbelief is all the more aggravated by the fact that I live in the 21st century, and have at my disposal many wonderful resources. \u00a0I have the testimonies of many saintly men and women who have lived down through the centuries.<\/p>\n<p>I believe, O Lord, and I confess that thou art truly the Christ, the Son of the living God, who didst come into the world to save sinners, <em>of whom I am chief<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Timothy 1:15 This\u00a0is\u00a0a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. &#8220;I believe, O Lord, and I confess that thou art truly the Christ, the Son of the living God, who didst come into the world to save sinners, of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3456\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Of whom I am chief&#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\/3456"}],"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=3456"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3461,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456\/revisions\/3461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}