{"id":4595,"date":"2015-11-07T15:39:03","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T15:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4595"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:08","slug":"musing-through-matthew-spiritual-violence-will-prevail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4595","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew-Spiritual Violence Will Prevail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again\u00a0today from Matthew 11:12 and the theme of <b><i>Jesus the King. <\/i><\/b>In our text today we find truth on the subject of <b><i>spiritual violence\u00a0will prevail.<\/i><\/b> John the Baptist in his own way sought to be close to Jesus in a violent way. It was a way in which all the strength of the body is stretched to full capacity . Let us who know Christ be seen as seeking the kingdom in such a way of stretching all the being toward Him that the on looker thinks it is being sought by violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again\u00a0today from Matthew 11:12 and the theme of Jesus the King. In our text today we find truth on the subject of spiritual violence\u00a0will prevail. John the [&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-4595","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\/4595","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=4595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5154,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595\/revisions\/5154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}