{"id":3568,"date":"2013-01-20T12:12:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T12:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=3568"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:25:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:25:57","slug":"a-deception-of-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=3568","title":{"rendered":"A Deception Of Sin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Isaiah 5:8-20 and the theme of <strong><em>Isaiah&#8217;s Christ.<\/em> <\/strong>We have been looking at <strong><em>the sifted Vineyard<\/em> <\/strong>which is the church within the church. This Vineyard was designed for success\u00a0yet found a way to fail. We find in our text the reason it failed was because of\u00a0<strong><em>a deception of sin.<\/em><\/strong> In verse eight we find they were consumed with material things even to the place there was no place to be alone with the Vineyard owner. In verse 12 all worship and praise were gone. In verse 13 no one is seeking to know the Vineyard owner in a deeper way. In verse 18 they have filled\u00a0a cart with\u00a0their sin\u00a0and they&#8217;re going down\u00a0a hill\u00a0with the cart behind and it is about to run them over. In verse 20 there\u00a0are no absolutes\u00a0everything is all right. It sounds like the church of today. In verse 14 we find hell has enlarged its self to accommodate those who come\u00a0there from the pews of religion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Isaiah 5:8-20 and the theme of Isaiah&#8217;s Christ. We have been looking at the sifted Vineyard which is the church within the church. This [&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-3568","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\/3568","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=3568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5473,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions\/5473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}