{"id":4164,"date":"2013-12-20T14:11:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T14:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4164"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:46","slug":"musing-through-matthew-obedience-to-the-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4164","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew-Obedience To The Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 5:19 and the theme of <strong><em>Jesus the King<\/em><\/strong>. Our Lord tells us in our text who would find themselves <strong><em>least and greatest\u00a0in his kingdom<\/em><\/strong>. The one who would find themselves least would be one who breaks a commandment or teachers others by\u00a0their example. The one who finds himself greatest in the kingdom is <strong><em>not one who just <\/em><em><strong>teaches <\/strong>the word but\u00a0lives the word<\/em><\/strong>. I have been reminded of late of those who think they can\u00a0enter into marriage\u00a0vow, later on break the\u00a0vow, get a divorce and think God will wink\u00a0at it\u00a0and then let them be great in His kingdom. We cannot teach\u00a0as examples of Christ and His bride that divorce what He hates and breaking\u00a0vows which He strongly discourages will\u00a0rate you a high position in the kingdom. Let us be careful today to not just teach the word but\u00a0live the word even when keeping it is painful and of great cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 5:19 and the theme of Jesus the King. Our Lord tells us in our text who would find themselves least and greatest\u00a0in his [&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-4164","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\/4164","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=4164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5315,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164\/revisions\/5315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}