{"id":1501,"date":"2010-04-06T11:47:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T11:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:51","slug":"judging-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1501","title":{"rendered":"Judging Self"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Let us muse today from Matthew 7:2 &amp; 5 and the subject of <em>Judging Self<\/em> as it pertains to the Doctrine of Forgiveness. Remember in verse 2 we are told that the same measurement we use to judge others will be used to judge us. I am told in verse 5 to be careful of being a hypocrite. The word means to hide behind a mask. Oh, how these truths will cause us to examine ourselves with greater condemnation and others with greater mercy. At a recent communion service I was tempted to judge someone about their lifestyle and their right to partake of the Lord\u2019s Supper. While I was contemplating judging them I saw on my bulletin the words, \u2018Let a man examine himself\u2019. I turned so that I could not see him and realized after a closer look at self, that I was far worse off than the one I was about to examine<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Matthew 7:2 &amp; 5 and the subject of Judging Self as it pertains to the Doctrine of Forgiveness. Remember in verse 2 we are told [&hellip;]<\/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-1501","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\/1501","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=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6223,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions\/6223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}