{"id":1117,"date":"2010-05-19T10:49:36","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T10:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:19","slug":"the-position-of-reconciliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1117","title":{"rendered":"The Position Of Reconciliation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Let us muse today from Colossians 1:21b-22\u00a0on the subject of the <em>&#8216;Position Of Reconciliation&#8217;<\/em>. Paul declares in verse 21 &#8216;yet now hath He reconciled&#8217;. The sentence never ends but continues in verse 22 with these words, &#8216;In the body of His flesh through death&#8217;. In order to reconcile me to God, Christ has me in His body when He died on that cross. Because of this position Paul says, &#8216;He can now present me holy&#8217;. The word has to do with being set apart and being made God-like. We will also be presented unblameable\u00a0and unreprovable. The words have the idea of being accused or blamed for wrong doing. This will all be as it is seen in God&#8217;s sight. Can we imagine when Satan comes to accuse those who are in Christ what he will find? Satan tells no lies about us, but only the truth. God will say, &#8216;I see no fault in them or any facts to back up your accusations&#8217;. Why? When I look at them I see only my Son. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Colossians 1:21b-22\u00a0on the subject of the &#8216;Position Of Reconciliation&#8217;. Paul declares in verse 21 &#8216;yet now hath He reconciled&#8217;. The sentence never ends but continues [&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-1117","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\/1117","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=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6187,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions\/6187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}