{"id":4351,"date":"2014-05-11T11:01:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T11:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4351"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:42","slug":"musing-through-matthew-healing-of-the-leper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4351","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew- Healing Of The Leper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 8:3 and\u00a0the theme of <strong><em>Jesus the King<\/em><\/strong>. It is here we see with great delight the <strong><em>healing of the leper<\/em><\/strong>. The leper in the Bible is a picture of the sinner. I am amazed that He touches the Leper\u00a0yet He is not defiled. He the Holy One took upon Himself my sin yet remained holy. His touch is not an accidental brush but a purposeful putting forth of His hand. He says the simple words, I will, be thou clean. The Leper nor the multitude had to wait around to see what would happen for immediately he was cleansed.\u00a0Oh the marvelous work He did for the Leper much like the work\u00a0He did in my own dead\u00a0sinful heart when He touched me July 1968.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 8:3 and\u00a0the theme of Jesus the King. It is here we see with great delight the healing of the leper. The leper in [&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-4351","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\/4351","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=4351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5247,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351\/revisions\/5247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}