{"id":4421,"date":"2014-09-10T14:52:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T14:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4421"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:41","slug":"musing-through-matthew-the-favored-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4421","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew- The Favored City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 9:1 and the theme of <strong><em>Jesus the King<\/em><\/strong>. In the context of our study today our\u00a0Lord has made many trips on the sea of Galilee. He has just left with sadness a group who has rejected Him. He now sails to Capernaum a place in our text He calls\u00a0<strong><em>His favored\u00a0city<\/em> <\/strong>or His own city. They later will turn upon Him and prove unworthy of such a title. May we never have our Savior to claim us as\u00a0His own and\u00a0our lives bring dishonor to Him proving us so unworthy of\u00a0the title of being called\u00a0His children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 9:1 and the theme of Jesus the King. In the context of our study today our\u00a0Lord has made many trips on the sea [&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-4421","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\/4421","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=4421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5222,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421\/revisions\/5222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}