{"id":4824,"date":"2017-02-28T19:25:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T19:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4824"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:04","slug":"musing-through-matthew-why-not-root-them-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4824","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew-Why Not Root Them Out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 13:29 the theme of <strong><em>Jesus the king.<\/em> <\/strong>In our study for today we find the question, <strong><em>why not root them out<\/em><\/strong>, is answered. Our Lord tells us that the good wheat and false wheat\u00a0are so intertwined to pull up the bad\u00a0often up root\u00a0the good as well. Spurgeon said, &#8220;if evil is clearly being practiced do not hesitate to deal with it but if it is questionable hold your hand for further guidance from the Spirit of God&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 13:29 the theme of Jesus the king. In our study for today we find the question, why not root them out, is answered. [&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-4824","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\/4824","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=4824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5078,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824\/revisions\/5078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}