{"id":4004,"date":"2013-10-06T12:15:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T12:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4004"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:48","slug":"musing-through-matthew-the-spirit-leads-into-temptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4004","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew-The Spirit Leads Into Temptation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today Matthew 4:1 and the theme of <b><i>Jesus the King<\/i><\/b>. In our<br \/>\ntext we are confronted right after our Lord has been testified to by the Father<br \/>\nas being the King, He is <b><i>led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be<br \/>\ntempted <\/i><\/b>of the devil. I thought the Bible says God tempts no man with<br \/>\nsin. God does not Himself bring the temptation but surely arranges it and<br \/>\ncontrols the one who brings it. No wonder He taught us to pray Lord lead us not<br \/>\ninto temptation and deliver us from evil. Remember temptation will often come<br \/>\nafter our highest mountaintop experiences with the Father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today Matthew 4:1 and the theme of Jesus the King. In our text we are confronted right after our Lord has been testified to by the [&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-4004","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\/4004","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=4004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5350,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004\/revisions\/5350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}