{"id":1241,"date":"2008-12-03T12:58:46","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T12:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=55"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:29:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:29:49","slug":"the-greeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1241","title":{"rendered":"The Greeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We look today at Luke 1:28 which says, &#8220;And the angel came into her and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. Although Mary is a sinner as we all are, and has no more pull with Jesus than the greatest saint, we see here a picture of the child of God with Jesus living within. Notice <em>the pronouncement to her<\/em>. (highly favoured) The phrase means accepted or\u00a0muched graced. I see to <em>the presents about her. <\/em>( the Lord is with thee) My what a thought. The word with carries the idea of before, beside, behind, over, underneath, I&#8217;m in Him, and He is in me. There is also <em>the position for her<\/em>. (blessed art thou among women) The word blessed means to be greatly admired. To be saved today is have Jesus in whom all the Godhead bodily dwells, dwelling in us.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We look today at Luke 1:28 which says, &#8220;And the angel came into her and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou [&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-1241","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\/1241","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=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6546,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/6546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}