{"id":3903,"date":"2013-08-24T11:46:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T11:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=3903"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:49","slug":"musing-through-matthew-the-treasures-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=3903","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew-The Treasures Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 2:11 and\u00a0the theme of <strong><em>Jesus King<\/em><\/strong>. Today I draw our attention to <strong><em>the treasures themselves<\/em><\/strong>, gold, frankincense, and myrrh.\u00a0Oh how the gold would speak of the baby\u00a0as being deity\u00a0and the King of Kings. Frankincense would speak of Him as\u00a0the great high priest and the smoke of incense arising in worship to Him. The myrrh would speak of\u00a0 His death as Savior dying for the sins of His people. He is King, Priest, and Savior. No wonder they call Him the Lord Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 2:11 and\u00a0the theme of Jesus King. Today I draw our attention to the treasures themselves, gold, frankincense, and myrrh.\u00a0Oh how the gold would [&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-3903","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\/3903","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=3903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5382,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903\/revisions\/5382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}