{"id":4328,"date":"2014-04-23T13:04:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T13:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4328"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:43","slug":"musing-through-matthew-end-of-corrupt-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4328","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew-End Of Corrupt Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 7:19 and the theme of<strong><em> Jesus the King<\/em><\/strong>. In our text today we are confronted by our King with the <strong><em>end of the corrupt tree<\/em><\/strong>. Our Lord mixers no words but\u00a0simply tells us there will come a day when this tree will be cut down. This seems to me to speak of death. Then the tree will be thrown in the fire. The fire spoken of in other places in the Scriptures is an eternal fire.\u00a0Oh how this\u00a0should cause\u00a0us to rejoice in the fact the very nature of God\u00a0has been\u00a0placed in our tree and is\u00a0causing us to bring forth good fruit unto Him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 7:19 and the theme of Jesus the King. In our text today we are confronted by our King with the end of the [&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-4328","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\/4328","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=4328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5257,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328\/revisions\/5257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}