{"id":7725,"date":"2026-02-23T14:54:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.escapetunes.cc\/?p=7725"},"modified":"2026-02-23T14:55:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:55:21","slug":"made-worthy-the-last-shall-be-first-pastor-joel-sims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escapetunes.cc\/?p=7725","title":{"rendered":"Made Worthy | The Last Shall Be First | Pastor Joel Sims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em data-start=\"144\" data-end=\"169\">The Last Shall Be First<\/em>, Pastor Joel Sims teaches from the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Gospel of Matthew<\/span><\/span> 19\u201320, revealing through the parable of the generous landowner that righteousness is not earned by effort but gifted by the goodness of God.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7280\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7725-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/thelifewolc\/escapetunes.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-HighlandColony830-PastorJoelSims.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/thelifewolc\/escapetunes.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-HighlandColony830-PastorJoelSims.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/thelifewolc\/escapetunes.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-HighlandColony830-PastorJoelSims.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/thelifewolc\/escapetunes.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-HighlandColony830-PastorJoelSims.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.escapetunes.cc\/?powerpress_pinw=7725-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/thelifewolc\/escapetunes.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-HighlandColony830-PastorJoelSims.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"2026-02-22-HighlandColony830-PastorJoelSims.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.escapetunes.cc\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.escapetunes.cc\/?page_id=3894\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Last Shall Be First, Pastor Joel Sims teaches from the Gospel of Matthew 19\u201320, revealing through the parable of the generous landowner that righteousness is not earned by effort but gifted by the goodness of God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":374,"featured_media":7705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts","category-made-worthy"],"acf":{"saturday_530":null,"sunday_830":null,"sunday_1000":null,"sunday_1130":null,"wednesday_prayer":null,"sermon_notes_pdf":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapetunes.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapetunes.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapetunes.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapetunes.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapetunes.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapetunes.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7728,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapetunes.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725\/revisions\/7728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapetunes.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapetunes.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapetunes.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapetunes.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}