{"id":4822,"date":"2017-02-27T15:55:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T15:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4822"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:04","slug":"musing-through-matthew-what-can-we-do-with-the-tares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4822","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew-What Can We Do With The Tares?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 13:28 and the theme of <strong><em>Jesus the King.<\/em> <\/strong>In our text today the servant of the harvest has awoken to see the tares and their first question\u00a0 is <strong><em>what can we do about the tares?<\/em><\/strong> The Lord of the harvest has not slept, He has watched the enemy the devil sow the tares. The only problem is they are not common weeds but they are\u00a0look a likes, you cannot tell the professor from the possessor. In our churches today we see the members as so-called carnal Christians, moralist but nothing of the life of God. The true servant\u00a0when given\u00a0the answer to their question <strong><em>what can we do about the tares<\/em> <\/strong>was shocked when the Lord of the harvest said,&#8221; nothing until the harvest&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 13:28 and the theme of Jesus the King. In our text today the servant of the harvest has awoken to see the tares [&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-4822","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\/4822","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=4822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5079,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822\/revisions\/5079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}