{"id":3960,"date":"2013-09-17T10:43:55","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T10:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=3960"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:49","slug":"musing-through-matthew-john-the-baptists-stern-rebuke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=3960","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew-John The Baptist&#8217;s Stern Rebuke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 3:7 and the theme of <strong><em>Jesus the King<\/em><\/strong>. Today we find in\u00a0our text <strong><em>John&#8217;s stern rebuke<\/em><\/strong>. The religionists and the moralist have come to the baptismal service and John calls\u00a0them a generation of vipers and asked them where did they get a warning to flee from the wrath to come.\u00a0May the man of God not back down from delivering the message no matter how harsh if he is confident God has given it to him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 3:7 and the theme of Jesus the King. Today we find in\u00a0our text John&#8217;s stern rebuke. The religionists and the moralist have come [&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-3960","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\/3960","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=3960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5364,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960\/revisions\/5364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}