{"id":1322,"date":"2009-05-05T11:39:05","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T11:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=377"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:29:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:29:39","slug":"principles-of-the-prison-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1322","title":{"rendered":"Principles Of The Prison Pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In our last musing we began to look at Philippians 2:1-4. I am calling chapter 2 <em>the pattern of the<\/em> <em>prison<\/em>. I have found that Christ is the pattern that governs our reaction to unwelcome situations. In verse one I find <em>the principles of the pattern<\/em>. In the short introduction verse of chapter 2 Paul lays down 4 principles of Christ likeness. The first is <em>the consolation in Christ<\/em>. The word consolation is an action done to someone that urges a similar action from them. The word literally means to be addicted to helping people. The second principle is <em>the comfort of<\/em> <em>love<\/em>. This is the driving force that produces the consolation. This love is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost. The third is <em>the fellowship of the Spirit<\/em>. The word fellowship is a term of intimacy with another. The Spirit always promotes Christ. So the intimacy would be with Christ. The fourth is <em>bowels of mercy<\/em>. Mercy is withholding from one what they deserve. This mercy is coming from deep within. These principles when practise as a part of the pattern of our life will turn our prison into a palace of praise.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our last musing we began to look at Philippians 2:1-4. I am calling chapter 2 the pattern of the prison. I have found that Christ is the pattern that [&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-1322","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\/1322","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=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6436,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions\/6436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}