{"id":4443,"date":"2014-10-06T16:27:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T16:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4443"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:40","slug":"musing-through-matthew-gift-of-jehovah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4443","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew-Gift Of Jehovah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matt and 9:9 and\u00a0the theme\u00a0of <strong><em>Jesus the\u00a0King<\/em><\/strong>. In our next today\u00a0we find the\u00a0calling of Matthew\u00a0the author of the\u00a0gospel we are studying. He is sitting at the receipt of\u00a0customs collecting\u00a0taxes when\u00a0Jesus call for him to\u00a0follow Him. When a tax collector he was called Levi and now\u00a0Jesus calls him\u00a0Matthew which means <strong><em>gift of Jehovah.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0He arose immediately and followed the Lord. That call was so\u00a0powerful that he who\u00a0had always been\u00a0a taker\u00a0became a giving gift to all who read the gospel according to Matthew. Oh Lord let me be sensitive to that life changing Voice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matt and 9:9 and\u00a0the theme\u00a0of Jesus the\u00a0King. In our next today\u00a0we find the\u00a0calling of Matthew\u00a0the author of the\u00a0gospel we are studying. He is sitting [&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-4443","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\/4443","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=4443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5215,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443\/revisions\/5215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}