{"id":4180,"date":"2014-01-03T15:18:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T15:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4180"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:45","slug":"musing-through-matthew-cutting-the-hand-off-better-than-going-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4180","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew-Cutting The Hand Off Better Than Going Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 5:20\u00a0and the theme of <strong><em>Jesus the King<\/em><\/strong>. In our text today our Lord deals with <strong><em>cutting the hand\u00a0off is better than going to hell<\/em><\/strong>. We often in our\u00a0walk with Christ will deal with evil in our lives but seldom deal with the source of the evil. Anything that leads me to do or think evil must be dealt with severely. If one sees that\u00a0vain speculation and reasoning causes unbelief\u00a0 let us have no part in it. We would be better to be a blind sited saint than a quick sighted sinner. The source of our evil must be dealt with harshly even as the sin itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 5:20\u00a0and the theme of Jesus the King. In our text today our Lord deals with cutting the hand\u00a0off is better than going to [&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-4180","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\/4180","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=4180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5309,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180\/revisions\/5309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}