{"id":4904,"date":"2017-09-26T15:40:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T15:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4904"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:02","slug":"musing-through-matthew-solutions-come-before-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4904","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew-Solutions Come Before Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 14:16 and the theme of <strong><em>Jesus the king.<\/em><\/strong> In our text we are reminded that <strong><em>solutions come before problems<\/em><\/strong>. He is the solution to all our problems and He has always been. He was the solution to the\u00a0sin problem long before Adam and Eve fell into sin. John said in Revelation He was\u00a0the Lamb\u00a0slain from the foundation of the world. Jesus said, don&#8217;t send them away feed them. He is the bread of life and has the ability to take\u00a0care of hopeless situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 14:16 and the theme of Jesus the king. In our text we are reminded that solutions come before problems. He is the solution [&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-4904","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\/4904","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=4904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5044,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904\/revisions\/5044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}