{"id":10432,"date":"2022-11-30T22:42:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T22:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=10432"},"modified":"2023-05-17T07:14:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T07:14:38","slug":"1-thessalonians-chapter-3-verse-3-daily-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2022\/11\/1-thessalonians-chapter-3-verse-3-daily-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"1 Thessalonians: Chapter 3, Verse 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align=\"center\">\u201cThat no man should be moved by these afflictions, etc.]\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Which the apostle endured for the sake of preaching the Gospel among them, and which he feared might be a means of troubling their minds, of shaking their faith, and moving them from the hope of the Gospel; for though none of these things moved him, who was an old soldier of Christ, and used to hardness, and an apostle of Christ; yet these were young converts, and not used to such things, and therefore might be staggered at them, and be offended, as stony ground hearers are; and though the apostle hoped better things of them, yet was he concerned for them, that no one among them might be unhinged by them, or succumb under them:<\/p>\n<h3 align=\"center\">\u201cfor yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto;\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>By the immutable decree of God: afflictions, as to their nature, measure, and duration, are appointed for the people of God, and they are appointed for them; this is the case of all who will live godly in Christ Jesus, and especially of Gospel ministers; of which these saints had been apprized by the apostle, and therefore was nothing new, unheard of, and unexpected, or to be looked upon as a strange thing; and seeing this was the appointment of heaven, and the will of God, they should be patiently endured, and quietly submitted to.<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"10432\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"box-shadow:none;-webkit-box-shadow:none;-moz-box-shadow:none;\"><div class=\"bookmark-off\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThat no man should be moved by these afflictions, etc.]\u201d Which the apostle endured for the sake of preaching the Gospel among them, and which he feared might be a means of troubling their minds, of shaking their faith, and moving them from the hope of the Gospel; for though none of these things moved him, who was an old soldier of Christ, and used to hardness, and an apostle of Christ; yet these were young converts, and not used to such things, and therefore might be staggered at them, and be offended, as stony ground hearers are; and though the apostle hoped better things of them, yet was he concerned for them, that no one among them might be unhinged by them, or succumb under them: \u201cfor yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto;\u201d By the immutable decree of God: afflictions, as to their nature, measure, and duration, are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-john-gill-1-commentary-on-first-thessalonians-complete"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16942,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10432\/revisions\/16942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}