{"id":3891,"date":"2013-08-20T10:48:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T10:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=3891"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:50","slug":"musing-through-matthew-deceitful-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=3891","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew-Deceitful Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Matthew 2:7-8 in the theme of <strong><em>Jesus the King<\/em><\/strong>. I see in our text today a <strong><em>deceitful worship<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0Herod calls the wise men in for a private inquiry. Be careful of those who always keep things in the dark and\u00a0are never willing for\u00a0the light of truth to\u00a0shined upon what they are doing. We find in verse\u00a08 that Herod had murder in his heart but piety on his tongue. Be careful of what men may say,\u00a0you may not be seeing the true story because the tongue is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked\u00a0who can know\u00a0it? <strong><em>The greatest wickedness often conceals itself under the mask of piety<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Matthew 2:7-8 in the theme of Jesus the King. I see in our text today a deceitful worship.\u00a0Herod calls the wise men in for a [&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-3891","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\/3891","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=3891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5386,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891\/revisions\/5386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}