{"id":5756,"date":"2016-08-16T03:47:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/jailed-for-a-cause\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:47:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:38","slug":"jailed-for-a-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/jailed-for-a-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"JAILED\n  FOR A CAUSE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Christian Life; Compromise; Convictions; Courage; Evil; Sacrifice<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>References:<\/b> 2 Timothy 1:8; 3:12<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Martin Niemoeller, a World War I hero in Germany as a U-boat captain, was later imprisoned for eight years by Hitler on charges of treason. From 1937 to 1945, he spent time in prisons and concentration camps, including Dachau.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Still, Hitler realized much opposition would collapse if the influential Niemoeller, a leading figure in the German church, could be persuaded to join his cause, so he sent a former friend of Niemoeller.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Seeing Niemoeller in his cell, the onetime friend said, \u201cMartin, Martin! Why are you here?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The response? \u201cMy friend! Why are you <i>not<\/i> here?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Amos S. Cresswell, <i>I\u2019ve Told You Twice<\/i> (Vigo, 1995)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Christian Life; Compromise; Convictions; Courage; Evil; Sacrifice References: 2 Timothy 1:8; 3:12 Martin Niemoeller, a World War I hero in Germany as a U-boat captain, was later imprisoned for eight years by Hitler on charges of treason. From 1937 to 1945, he spent time in prisons and concentration camps, including Dachau. Still, Hitler realized &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/jailed-for-a-cause\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;JAILED<br \/>\n  FOR A CAUSE&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}