{"id":4785,"date":"2016-12-19T15:41:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T15:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4785"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:05","slug":"musing-through-matthew-some-get-it-some-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4785","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew-Some Get It Some Don&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 13:10-11 and the theme of <strong><em>Jesus the king<\/em><\/strong>.In our text for today we are confronted with some sobering truths on the subject<strong><em> some get it and some don&#8217;t.<\/em><\/strong> Many came to the disciples and asked why Jesus taught in parables and said we don&#8217;t get it. Instead of giving an incorrect answer the disciples asked Jesus. Our Lord said this\u00a0is the purpose of the parables to bring light to\u00a0some while leaving others in the dark. We are here reminded of the fact that our\u00a0Lord is the controller of\u00a0who gets light and who\u00a0is left in the dark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 13:10-11 and the theme of Jesus the king.In our text for today we are confronted with some sobering truths on the subject some [&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-4785","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\/4785","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=4785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5094,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785\/revisions\/5094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}