{"id":4698,"date":"2016-04-19T16:41:33","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T16:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4698"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:07","slug":"musing-through-matthew-is-man-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4698","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew-Is Man Important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 12:11-12 and the theme of <b><i>Jesus the King<\/i><\/b>. In our text for today Jesus brings up the <b><i>importance of a human<\/i><\/b> over an animal. We live in a day where more importance is laid on an animal than a person. The question is asked is it all right to heal a human on the sabbath . Our Lord answers the question by asking a question about a sheep cast down on the Sabbath. He said surely you would go and set the sheep on his feet. I fear more today would help an animal by the road quicker than a person in distress. How sad to think, but so true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 12:11-12 and the theme of Jesus the King. In our text for today Jesus brings up the importance of a human over an [&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-4698","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\/4698","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=4698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5131,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698\/revisions\/5131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}