{"id":1541,"date":"2010-06-03T09:28:15","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T09:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:18","slug":"pauls-burden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1541","title":{"rendered":"Paul&#8217;s Burden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Let us muse today from Colossians 2:1 and <em>Paul&#8217;s burden<\/em>.\u00a0It is\u00a0here that Paul flies the true flag of a burden. Many today have a burden to make\u00a0their point, no matter the danger of what making their point does. Paul has a burden for people to get\u00a0in the word and know the truth. Paul says,\u00a0that he has a great <em>conflict\u00a0<\/em>for the church at Colosse\u00a0and the church at Laodicea. The word conflict means a fight or race\u00a0of anxiety and burden. Paul is carrying a great burden for\u00a0these two churches. Satan had\u00a0deceived the church at Laodicea with <em>luxuries<\/em>. They thought themselves rich and in need of nothing. Satan had deceived the church at Colosse with the <em>lie<\/em> of thinking\u00a0that\u00a0\u00a0the Christian life was Christ plus knowledge. Let us in this hour not have a burden to make our point, but get people in the Bible. If you know the truth, the truth will make you free<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Colossians 2:1 and Paul&#8217;s burden.\u00a0It is\u00a0here that Paul flies the true flag of a burden. Many today have a burden to make\u00a0their point, no matter [&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-1541","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\/1541","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=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6176,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions\/6176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}