{"id":4417,"date":"2014-09-09T14:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4417"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:41","slug":"musing-through-matthew-pigs-more-important-than-souls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4417","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew- Pigs More Important Than Souls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 8:33-34 and the\u00a0theme of <strong><em>Jesus the King<\/em><\/strong>. In our text for today we find the people more concerned with <strong><em>pigs than the\u00a0souls of men<\/em><\/strong>. The pig keepers\u00a0went into the town and told them of their great loss, no mention of the changed mad man. All the city came out and asked Jesus to leave.\u00a0Oh how our world today is more concerned with\u00a0the temporal pigs\u00a0of this world then the eternal souls of men. He left because if He is not a\u00a0welcomed guest He shall be gone. Oh, Lord, I\u00a0thank\u00a0Thee that Thou did not go away from\u00a0me when I in my unregenerate state wish Thee\u00a0to leave me alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 8:33-34 and the\u00a0theme of Jesus the King. In our text for today we find the people more concerned with pigs than the\u00a0souls of [&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-4417","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\/4417","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=4417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5223,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417\/revisions\/5223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}