{"id":4752,"date":"2016-09-12T17:03:37","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T17:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4752"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:06","slug":"musing-through-matthew-a-swept-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4752","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew- A Swept House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us use again today from Matthew 12:44 theme of <strong><em>Jesus king.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Yesterday we found the unclean spirit left the house of a man.\u00a0Today we find he returned. He calls this my house\u00a0and did not build it.\u00a0He returns\u00a0at will\u00a0and finds it empty. There is no Holy Ghost to do battle for this house. It is a <strong><em>swept house<\/em><\/strong>. The unclean spirit, or the devil by a more common title loves the house\u00a0lived in\u00a0by morality and religion. If there is no Holy Ghost it is easy to return to as the most hardened of sinners. Oh how I rejoice in the\u00a0One who\u00a0lives in me, fills the house, and sets a guard about my soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us use again today from Matthew 12:44 theme of Jesus king.\u00a0Yesterday we found the unclean spirit left the house of a man.\u00a0Today we find he returned. He calls this [&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-4752","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\/4752","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=4752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5107,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752\/revisions\/5107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}