{"id":4367,"date":"2014-05-23T13:14:15","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T13:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4367"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:42","slug":"musing-through-matthew-a-side-road-taken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4367","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew- A Side Road Taken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 8:11-12 and the theme of <strong><em>Jesus King<\/em><\/strong>. It seems from our text <strong><em>our\u00a0Lord\u00a0takes a side road<\/em><\/strong>. He speaks of many coming from the east and the west to sit with the spiritual fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in heaven, while others fill the courts of hell. I believe He is telling us\u00a0 here that heaven will be filled with\u00a0old rough Roman soldier\u00a0from the world while hell is filled with the religious folks from the church.\u00a0Heaven will be filled with the bowing harlots while hell will be filled with the upright religious Pharisee.\u00a0Oh let us forsake any signs of religion and leaned upon Christ alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 8:11-12 and the theme of Jesus King. It seems from our text our\u00a0Lord\u00a0takes a side road. He speaks of many coming from 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-4367","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\/4367","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=4367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5242,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367\/revisions\/5242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}