{"id":1556,"date":"2010-06-24T11:08:16","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T11:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:17","slug":"warning-of-being-beguiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1556","title":{"rendered":"Warning Of Being Beguiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse again today from Colossians 2:18 and<em><strong> the warning of let no man beguile you<\/strong><\/em>. The word beguile means to declare unworthy of the prize. It is a term used by an umpire when he disqualifies one for not obeying the rules. The word<em><strong>\u00a0intruding<\/strong><\/em> was the word used to explain one who was fully initiated and ready to step into the inner shrine of mysticism. The initiation was\u00a0a\u00a0pride of false humility that\u00a0thought one could not come to God,\u00a0so instead\u00a0he went to an angel. It all comes from thinking with the mind of the\u00a0flesh. Can you imagine someone thinking he is a giant when by\u00a0all rights he is a pygmy. I am glad I can come boldly into the presence of God through Christ\u00a0His\u00a0 Son and\u00a0get help when I need it. Let us not be counted unworthy because we have come by any other, but\u00a0Christ alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse again today from Colossians 2:18 and the warning of let no man beguile you. The word beguile means to declare unworthy of the prize. It is a term [&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-1556","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\/1556","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=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6159,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions\/6159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}