{"id":4588,"date":"2015-09-15T14:19:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T14:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4588"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:08","slug":"musing-through-matthew-honoring-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4588","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew-Honoring John"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 11:7 and the theme of <strong><em>Jesus the king<\/em><\/strong>. In our text for today we find the <strong><em>honoring of John<\/em><\/strong>. John has honored Jesus by giving his life\u00a0 for Him\u00a0and now Jesus honors John. He asked the multitude when you went into the wilderness to hear John was he like\u00a0a reed shaken in the wind? When you heard him did he have his finger in the air to check what was the popular religious or politically correct way to say it? He was not a man pleaser but a God pleaser. When you heard John you only heard what thus\u00a0sayeth the\u00a0Lord\u00a0because of that Jesus\u00a0honored John.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 11:7 and the theme of Jesus the king. In our text for today we find the honoring of John. John has honored Jesus [&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-4588","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\/4588","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=4588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5157,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588\/revisions\/5157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}