{"id":4210,"date":"2014-01-14T14:34:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T14:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4210"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:45","slug":"musing-through-matthew-acts-of-kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4210","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew- Acts Of Kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 5:46-47 the theme of <strong><em>Jesus the King.<\/em> <\/strong>It is in our text today that our King Jesus deals with <strong><em>acts of kindness<\/em><\/strong>. We are reminded that anyone can return love for love but it takes a child of God to return love for he evil. Love for love is manlike but love for hate is Christ like. In verse 47 He speaks of a kind good day to a friend or family member is nice but God&#8217;s people will show this courtesy to the lowest of people even their enemies. We who are subjects of the King must show ourselves to be like Him\u00a0in words and deeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 5:46-47 the theme of Jesus the King. It is in our text today that our King Jesus deals with acts of kindness. We [&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-4210","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\/4210","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=4210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5299,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions\/5299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}