{"id":54112,"date":"2015-03-10T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T14:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=54112"},"modified":"2015-03-19T23:29:35","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T06:29:35","slug":"the-epistle-of-joy-episode-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2015\/03\/10\/the-epistle-of-joy-episode-10\/","title":{"rendered":"The Epistle of Joy &#8211; Episode #10 (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"facebook alignnone wp-image-55977\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Blog3.png\" alt=\"Blog\" width=\"400\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Blog3.png 850w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Blog3-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Blog3-600x359.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Today we conclude Chapter 2 of Philippians by reading about Paul&#8217;s account of Epaphroditus:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #993300\"><span id=\"en-RSVCE-33575\" class=\"text Phil-2-25\">I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need, <\/span><span id=\"en-RSVCE-33576\" class=\"text Phil-2-26\">for he has been longing for you all, and has been distressed because you heard that he was ill.\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"en-RSVCE-33577\" class=\"text Phil-2-27\">Indeed he was ill, near to death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. <\/span><span id=\"en-RSVCE-33578\" class=\"text Phil-2-28\">I am the more eager to send him, therefore, that you may <strong>rejoice<\/strong> at seeing him again, and that I may be less anxious.\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"en-RSVCE-33579\" class=\"text Phil-2-29\">So receive him in the Lord with all joy; and honor such men, <\/span><span id=\"en-RSVCE-33580\" class=\"text Phil-2-30\">for he nearly died for the work of Christ, risking his life to complete your service to me.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #993300\">&#8211; Philippians 2:25-30<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here are my closing thoughts for Chapter 2:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XIOP59I_dcI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">For an audio-only version of this video, please click <a title=\"The Epistle of Joy \u2013 Episode #10 (Audio)\" href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2015\/03\/10\/the-epistle-of-joy-episode-10-audio\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"The Epistle of Joy \u2013 Episode #9 (Video)\" href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2015\/03\/08\/the-epistle-of-joy-episode-9\/\">Previous Episode<\/a> | <a title=\"The Epistle of Joy \u2013 Episode #11 (Video)\" href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2015\/03\/12\/the-epistle-of-joy-episode-11\/\">Next Episode<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we conclude Chapter 2 of Philippians by reading about Paul&#8217;s account of Epaphroditus: I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need, for he has been longing for you all, and has been distressed because you heard that he was ill.\u00a0Indeed he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3057],"tags":[35,2969,301,373,796,3092],"class_list":["post-54112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vlog","tag-bible-study","tag-featured","tag-philippians","tag-sacred-scripture","tag-video","tag-video-bible-study"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/FeaturedEpisode9.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54112"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56850,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54112\/revisions\/56850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}