{"id":4447,"date":"2014-10-08T18:33:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T18:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4447"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:40","slug":"musing-through-matthew-a-call-to-repentance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4447","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew- A Call To Repentance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 9: 13\u00a0and the theme of <strong><em>\u00a0Jesus the\u00a0King.<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>Our Lord\u00a0quotes here from Hosea 6:6 to the Pharisee telling\u00a0them He\u00a0would rather see them\u00a0showing mercy\u00a0than all their ceremonial rituals. His next words might have been a shock to a group of religious people who always\u00a0thought they were right\u00a0when He\u00a0issued to them <strong><em>a call to repentance<\/em><\/strong>. He said I have not come to\u00a0folks who\u00a0think they are right\u00a0but to <strong><em>call sinners to repent<\/em> <\/strong>which means to\u00a0turn or a\u00a0hundred and 80\u00b0 turn from sin.\u00a0Lord, may their always be upon my life a strong Spirit of\u00a0repentance and of keeping short accounts with You.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 9: 13\u00a0and the theme of \u00a0Jesus the\u00a0King.\u00a0Our Lord\u00a0quotes here from Hosea 6:6 to the Pharisee telling\u00a0them He\u00a0would rather see them\u00a0showing mercy\u00a0than all their [&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-4447","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\/4447","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=4447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5213,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions\/5213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}