{"id":3946,"date":"2013-09-09T12:26:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T12:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=3946"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:49","slug":"musing-through-matthew-johns-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=3946","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew-John&#8217;s Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 3:1-2 and the theme of <strong><em>Jesus the King<\/em><\/strong>. In our text we find a hint of <strong><em>John&#8217;s message<\/em><\/strong>. As I look at John&#8217;s message I am reminded that we should have a similar message. His message was repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. As our Lord&#8217;s coming draws near may our message be repent or perish, turn or burn. The word repent means to have a change of mind or 180\u00b0 turn from sin. May I, may you put away, turn from with disgust anything that would grieve His Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 3:1-2 and the theme of Jesus the King. In our text we find a hint of John&#8217;s message. As I look at John&#8217;s [&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-3946","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\/3946","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=3946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5368,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946\/revisions\/5368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}