{"id":4345,"date":"2014-05-07T14:46:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T14:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4345"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:42","slug":"musing-through-matthew-the-results-of-the-sermon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4345","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew- The Results Of The Sermon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 7:28-29 the theme of <strong><em>Jesus the King<\/em><\/strong>. In our text for today the greatest preacher the God-man\u00a0ends His sermon on the mount. Notice <strong><em>the only results<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>He has is that they were astonished. No conversions or those who have been brought to believe in Him. This is the clearest doctrinal preaching by God Himself with no conversions. Let us never be\u00a0surprised when our little sermons yield nothing. The word astonish means surprise with little understanding. We see even that the God man&#8217;s preaching has no effect on the heart of man unless the heart is touched by the quickening power of the Holy Ghost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 7:28-29 the theme of Jesus the King. In our text for today the greatest preacher the God-man\u00a0ends His sermon on the mount. Notice [&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-4345","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\/4345","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=4345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5250,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345\/revisions\/5250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}