{"id":4318,"date":"2014-04-08T16:27:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T16:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4318"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:43","slug":"musing-through-matthew-discernment-about-our-spirtural-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4318","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew- Discernment About Our Spirtural Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let us muse again today from Matthew 7:15 and the theme of Jesus the King<\/em><\/strong>. In our text yesterday we were challenged to discern our way, today we are warned to give discernment to our spiritual leaders.<\/em><\/strong> We are told they are often outwardly seen to be in sheep’s clothing but\u00a0a closer look will reveal\u00a0they are raving\u00a0wolves who devoured the sheep. I know of some\u00a0who have\u00a0crossed my ministry who have now gone\u00a0on to pastor churches were they believe no one will spend eternity in hell but all will ultimately be in heaven even down to Hitler. This belief has given them liberty to do most anything from drugs, drinking, and other disgusting things. I fear they are on the broad way thinking they are on the narrow way. Let us search the Scriptures, the Puritans, the Reformers, to see if what we believe has been handed down by the fathers of\u00a0faith or is it just the delusion of other false teachers and their depraved minds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let us muse again today from Matthew 7:15 and the theme of Jesus the King. In our text yesterday we were challenged to discern our way, today we are warned […]<\/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-4318","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\/4318","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=4318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5260,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318\/revisions\/5260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}