{"id":4321,"date":"2014-04-09T13:56:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T13:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4321"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:43","slug":"musing-through-matthew-discernment-about-our-fruits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4321","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew- Discernment about Our Fruits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 7:16 and\u00a0the theme of <strong><em>Jesus the King<\/em><\/strong>. In our text today we find in discerning the way of our leaders we must have <strong><em>discernment about their fruits.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>We must look for such fruits as the following:\u00a0Christ likeness, prayerfulness, and holiness of person. If you see\u00a0none of the above you can rest assured the fruit is bad. You cannot plant Apple trees and have watermelons come up. What one plants is what one gets in the harvest.\u00a0If one sows to the flesh, flesh will come up but if one sows to the Spirit spiritual things will arise as fruit in\u00a0their lives. How is your garden doing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 7:16 and\u00a0the theme of Jesus the King. In our text today we find in discerning the way of our leaders we must have [&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-4321","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\/4321","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=4321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5259,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321\/revisions\/5259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}