{"id":4853,"date":"2017-03-27T14:40:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T14:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4853"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:04","slug":"musing-through-matthew-the-pearl-of-great-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4853","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew- The Pearl Of Great Price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 13:45-46 and the theme of <strong><em>Jesus the king.<\/em> <\/strong>In our study today we find <strong><em>the pearl of great price<\/em><\/strong>. This man is a merchant\u00a0and not a farmer and he finds the pearl because he is seeking.\u00a0Let us\u00a0remember God must cause us to seek, no man seeks of his own free will. When he\u00a0found the great pearl, he sold all and bought the field. I believe this pearl speaks of the gospel once one has found it he sells all in order to\u00a0have this pearl of the gospel. The gospel is powerful and lets us see that all is temporal \u00a0in comparison to the Christ of the gospel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 13:45-46 and the theme of Jesus the king. In our study today we find the pearl of great price. This man is a [&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-4853","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\/4853","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=4853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5066,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4853\/revisions\/5066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}