{"id":6329,"date":"2019-09-30T04:15:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/the-rod-of-god\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:15:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:14","slug":"the-rod-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/the-rod-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Rod of God&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon in Isaiah series.    Being an instrument of God.    Isaiah 10:5-20<\/p>\n<p>                    ==============<br \/>\n                    THE ROD OF GOD<br \/>\n                    ==============<\/p>\n<p>    I. When you feel like God is beating on you.<\/p>\n<p>   II. God can use anyone to do His will.                          7:20; 10:5<\/p>\n<p>  III. The results of your life do not indicate your relationship with God.<br \/>\n        A. Many people have been mightily used by God, only to be rejected.<br \/>\n        B. God can use anyone, good and evil, to be his instrument.<\/p>\n<p>   IV. How to interpret disasters.<\/p>\n<p>    V. Even &#8220;rods of God&#8221; must be accountable.<\/p>\n<p>   VI. God is sovereign.                                           10:15<br \/>\n        A. Everything that happens, has a reason.           Romans 8:28<br \/>\n        B. Yet God is not compromised.                      James 1:13<\/p>\n<p>  VII. What matters is where you stand in the end.                    10:20<\/p>\n<p>                                                                        #2572<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon in Isaiah series. Being an instrument of God. Isaiah 10:5-20 ============== THE ROD OF GOD ============== I. When you feel like God is beating on you. II. God can use anyone to do His will. 7:20; 10:5 III. The results of your life do not indicate your relationship with God. A. Many people have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1539,571,1405,1538,1454],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}