{"id":4961,"date":"2018-07-25T13:49:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T13:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4961"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:01","slug":"musing-through-matthew-religious-blindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4961","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew-Religious Blindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 15:16 and theme of<strong><em> Jesus the King<\/em><\/strong>. In our text for study today we find the truth\u00a0about <strong><em>religious blindness<\/em><\/strong>. Peter feels like our\u00a0Lord has spoken in a parable about spiritual blindness and plants that have been planned but our Lord is stating \u00a0a principal. We can understand if the Pharisees don&#8217;t comprehend but the inner circle has been with Jesus for so long. Our Lord says to them, are ye also yet without understanding? How\u00a0often because of our lack of living in the word do we miss the simple truths our Lord is showing and sharing with us personally and pointedly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 15:16 and theme of Jesus the King. In our text for study today we find the truth\u00a0about religious blindness. Peter feels like our\u00a0Lord [&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-4961","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\/4961","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=4961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5016,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961\/revisions\/5016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}