{"id":4316,"date":"2014-04-07T15:09:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T15:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4316"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:43","slug":"musing-through-matthew-kings-lessons-on-discernment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4316","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew- King&#8217;s Lessons On Discernment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 7:13-14 and\u00a0the theme of <strong><em>Jesus the\u00a0King<\/em><\/strong>. In our text today our <strong><em>King gives lessons on discernment<\/em><\/strong>. The discernment is between the narrow way and the broad way. The majority today or on the broad or\u00a0liberal way\u00a0as far as doctrines, morals, and spiritual things. The narrow way is a very difficult way because it demands self-denial, strictness of behavior, and a watchful eye\u00a0of prayer. We who traveled the narrow way find it\u00a0very lightly populated. I find the narrow way is in the middle of\u00a0the broad way\u00a0going the opposite way. Let us remember the narrow way will\u00a0end with\u00a0endless life in heaven while the broad way will end with eternal damnation in\u00a0hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 7:13-14 and\u00a0the theme of Jesus the\u00a0King. In our text today our King gives lessons on discernment. The discernment is between the narrow way [&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-4316","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\/4316","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=4316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5261,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions\/5261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}