{"id":4445,"date":"2014-10-07T11:24:48","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T11:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4445"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:40","slug":"musing-through-matthew-dinning-with-sinners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4445","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew-Dinning With Sinners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again\u00a0today from Matthew 9:10-12 and the\u00a0theme of <strong><em>Jesus the\u00a0King<\/em><\/strong>. When Matthew was converted he had a feast at his house\u00a0and invited his\u00a0tax collector and\u00a0sinner buddies.\u00a0He also invited\u00a0his Savior to\u00a0speak at the supper.\u00a0The Pharisee\u00a0saw this as a\u00a0stone\u00a0to throw at Jesus\u00a0saying He can&#8217;t\u00a0be much why He <strong><em>eats with sinners and publicans.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>When Jesus heard of it He said where else would you find a doctor but among sick folks.. Surely this crowd \u00a0was sin cursed and disease with iniquity. Lord let me be\u00a0found among sinners\u00a0only that\u00a0I might share with them the\u00a0healing balm of salvation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again\u00a0today from Matthew 9:10-12 and the\u00a0theme of Jesus the\u00a0King. When Matthew was converted he had a feast at his house\u00a0and invited his\u00a0tax collector and\u00a0sinner buddies.\u00a0He also invited\u00a0his [&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-4445","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\/4445","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=4445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5214,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions\/5214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}