{"id":4778,"date":"2016-11-29T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4778"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:05","slug":"musing-through-matthew-thorny-place-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4778","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew- Thorny Place Seed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 13:7 and the\u00a0theme of <strong><em>Jesus the king<\/em><\/strong>. In today&#8217;s study we find\u00a0<strong><em>the thorny place seed.<\/em><\/strong> In the original plowing of this\u00a0field the\u00a0thorns would have been plowed up, but how quickly they return. My how the\u00a0thorns of our evil\u00a0depraved nature will choke out the stranger seed of the Word of God. Let us be on guard lest our old nature has a monopoly on what he sown in our heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 13:7 and the\u00a0theme of Jesus the king. In today&#8217;s study we find\u00a0the thorny place seed. In the original plowing of this\u00a0field the\u00a0thorns would [&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-4778","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\/4778","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=4778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5096,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778\/revisions\/5096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}