{"id":4941,"date":"2018-03-19T15:12:10","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T15:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4941"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:01","slug":"musing-through-matthew-commandment-vs-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4941","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew-Commandment Vs Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 15:1-3\u00a0and \u00a0the theme of<strong><em> Jesus the king.<\/em> <\/strong>In our text today we find truth on the subject of <strong><em>commandment versus tradition.<\/em><\/strong> The scribes and Pharisees pose a question to our\u00a0Lord \u00a0about His disciples washing their\u00a0hands in\u00a0religious ceremonies. They acted as if it were law when it was nothing more than a tradition. He answers their question with a question. The question tells us that they are transgressing command with their traditions. There is so many rules\u00a0in the Baptist Church that are nothing more than tradition. Let us be careful in imposing our traditions as\u00a0law \u00a0on another is a very dangerous thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 15:1-3\u00a0and \u00a0the theme of Jesus the king. In our text today we find truth on the subject of commandment versus tradition. The scribes [&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-4941","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\/4941","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=4941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5026,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941\/revisions\/5026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}