{"id":1260,"date":"2009-01-08T14:38:57","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T14:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:29:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:29:46","slug":"a-condemned-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1260","title":{"rendered":"A Condemned Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>For the next few mornings I would like to muse on Paul&#8217;s words to the Ephesians on <em>walking<\/em> with the Lord. I want to say there will be much even in the early part of the year to get us off course, but I say to us, just<em> walk<\/em> on. In this condemned\u00a0 <em>walk <\/em>we are reminded in Ephesians 2:2, Where in times ye<em> walked<\/em> according to the course of this world&#8230; O how many or <em>walking<\/em> this course today. You may ask what is this course like? I find in 2:1 it is <em>a dead walk<\/em>. One lost today is dead(a corpse) before the Lord no ability to come. A man once told me he didn&#8217;t think man was as dead as I preached him. I asked how dead is a corpse? The decision based gospel will not raise a corpse from the course of this world.\u00a0 I find in 2:2 it is <em>a directed walk<\/em>. One who is lost today operates totally under satan&#8217;s control. In 2:4 it is <em>a dreadful walk<\/em>. It will end as children of wrath. I see good news in our text with the words &#8220;But God&#8221;. I love it when God buts in. He comes with his rich mercy and quickens those dead in sin and makes them a child of grace. He creates for us <em>a delivered walk<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the next few mornings I would like to muse on Paul&#8217;s words to the Ephesians on walking with the Lord. I want to say there will be much even [&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-1260","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\/1260","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=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6516,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions\/6516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}