{"id":1360,"date":"2012-09-04T18:00:09","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T23:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2012-09-04T15:28:37","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T20:28:37","slug":"humble-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/?p=1360","title":{"rendered":"Humble Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Isaiah 9:1-7<\/strong> <em>Nevertheless, that time of darkness and despair will not go on forever. The land of Zebulun and Naphtali will be humbled, but there will be a time in the future when Galilee of the Gentiles, which lies along the road that runs between the Jordan and the sea, will be filled with glory.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><sup>2<\/sup>The people who walk in darkness\u00a0will see a great light.\u00a0\u00a0For those who live in a land of deep darkness,\u00a0a light will shine.\u00a0<sup>3<\/sup>You will enlarge the nation of Israel,\u00a0and its people will rejoice.\u00a0 They will rejoice before you\u00a0as people rejoice at the harvest\u00a0and like warriors dividing the plunder.\u00a0<sup>4<\/sup>For you will break the yoke of their slavery\u00a0and lift the heavy burden from their shoulders.\u00a0\u00a0You will break the oppressor\u2019s rod,\u00a0just as you did when you destroyed the army of Midian.\u00a0<sup>5<\/sup>The boots of the warrior\u00a0and the uniforms bloodstained by war\u00a0will all be burned.\u00a0\u00a0They will be fuel for the fire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><sup>6<\/sup>For a child is born to us,\u00a0a son is given to us.\u00a0\u00a0The government will rest on his shoulders.\u00a0\u00a0And he will be called: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,\u00a0Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.\u00a0<sup>7<\/sup>His government and its peace\u00a0will never end.\u00a0\u00a0He will rule with fairness and justice from the throne of his ancestor David\u00a0for all eternity.\u00a0\u00a0The passionate commitment of the Lord of Heaven\u2019s Armies\u00a0will make this happen!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Click on the link below to listen to the talk:<\/p>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sermons\/101226-humblebeginnings.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1360-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sermons\/101226-humblebeginnings.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"101226-humblebeginnings.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 38:07 &#8212; 17.5MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaiah 9:1-7 Nevertheless, that time of darkness and despair will not go on forever. The land of Zebulun and Naphtali will be humbled, but there will be a time in the future when Galilee of the Gentiles, which lies along the road that runs between the Jordan and the sea, will be filled with glory. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1363,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}