{"id":1200,"date":"2021-05-25T20:26:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T19:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2021-05-25T20:27:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T19:27:26","slug":"safe-but-sound-pt-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=1200","title":{"rendered":"safe but sound pt.7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which church do you belong to? It really is a matter of life and death.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><em>When the Lord called me to be a preacher of the Word, some sixty years ago, He used another preacher to inspire me. This was a mighty expositor of the Bible who ministered at Westminster Chapel in West London. Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones was so thorough that rumour has it that he was occasionally known to spend several sermons talking about a single punctuation mark! He was thorough! <\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Lloyd-Jones was a stickler for precise exposition: what Paul referred to in 2 Tim 2:15, \u201c<em>Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles (dissects precisely) the Word of truth.<\/em>\u201d <\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:more --><\/p>\n<div class=\"swpm-more-tag-not-logged-in swpm-margin-top-10\">You need to login to view the rest of the content. Please <a class=\"swpm-login-link\" href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=733&swpm_redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fswordmagazine.net%2Findex.php\">Login<\/a>. Not a Member? <a href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=731\">Join Us<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which church do you belong to? It really is a matter of life and death. When the Lord called me to be a preacher of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,78],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1202,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}