{"id":1500,"date":"2010-03-30T11:54:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T11:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:51","slug":"a-judgemental-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1500","title":{"rendered":"A Judgemental Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let us muse today from Matthew 7:3&5 and a Judgemental Spirit<\/em> as it relates to the Doctrine of Forgiveness. The word ‘mote’ in out text means a small particle or speck of straw. The word ‘beam’ is our word for telephone pole. Let us be careful in trying to take a speck out of our brother’s eye when we have a telephone pole in our own eye. I am reminded\u00a0 when several years ago and some of my family visited a service where I was preaching. A young lady came and was gloriously saved at the conclusion of the service. When we got in the car, my wife and I were still rejoicing over the ladies salvation. One of my family said, ‘Did you see how short her skirt was?’ It was an obvious attempt at the removal of a speck by one with a pole in their own eye. The pole in their eye was blocking their view of the work\u00a0 of the glorious gospel of grace. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let us muse today from Matthew 7:3&5 and a Judgemental Spirit as it relates to the Doctrine of Forgiveness. The word ‘mote’ in out text means a small particle or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6224,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions\/6224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}