{"id":1301,"date":"2009-03-30T11:32:46","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T11:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=301"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:29:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:29:41","slug":"the-progression-of-happy-endings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1301","title":{"rendered":"The Progression Of Happy Endings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Let us muse today from Romans 8:28 and 30. This section I have called happy endings in our\u00a0 study\u00a0of possessing our position. In verse 28 the <em>promise of this progression<\/em> is only to them that love Him. This love ask no questions, nor does it struggle with His request. How can I produce such love ? You can not. Romans 5 tells us it has already been shed abroad in the heart of His people by the Holy Ghost. In verse 29 there is a progression for those who love Him. All of it was done before He did it. He says we were <em>called.<\/em> The word is in the past tense. It is a call\u00a0 which is\u00a0givenwith the ability to come. It was done before He did it. He says we were <em>justified<\/em>. This word means to declare holy without sin. This was done before He did it. We are also <em>glorified,<\/em> which means to be clothed in splendor and sit in heavenly places. This was done before He did it.\u00a0 What confidence this gives us of a happy ending.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Romans 8:28 and 30. This section I have called happy endings in our\u00a0 study\u00a0of possessing our position. In verse 28 the promise of this progression [&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-1301","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\/1301","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=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6460,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions\/6460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}