{"id":4750,"date":"2016-09-07T15:20:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T15:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4750"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:06","slug":"musing-through-matthew-the-unclaimed-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4750","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew-The Unclaimed spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse\u00a0again today from Matthew 12:43 and\u00a0the theme of <strong><em>Jesus the king<\/em><\/strong>. In our verse for today we find mention of <strong><em>the unclean spirit<\/em><\/strong>.How appropriate for the devil to be called the unclean spirit. We are told he goes out of a man of his own accord. He has given up occupancy but not ownership, he leaves with the\u00a0key to the house. How many today\u00a0Satan has left, they have taken on the air of religion, and morality but the unclean spirit still possesses\u00a0 their heart.\u00a0In the text\u00a0the unclean spirit finds all outside that man&#8217;s heart\u00a0dry and unrestful. Beware he shall return to the heart of the one who looks to be such a fine person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse\u00a0again today from Matthew 12:43 and\u00a0the theme of Jesus the king. In our verse for today we find mention of the unclean spirit.How appropriate for the devil to be [&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-4750","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\/4750","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=4750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5108,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750\/revisions\/5108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}