{"id":1428,"date":"2009-12-25T14:12:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T14:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=784"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:56","slug":"the-birth-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1428","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The&#8221; Birth Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Let us muse this Christmas morning on <em>John&#8217;s birth announcement of Jesus<\/em>. In verse one John sees Jesus as <em>the letters<\/em> and there can be no <em>communication<\/em> without Him. In 1:3 John sees Jesus as <em>the laborer<\/em> and there can be no <em>creation<\/em> without Him. In 1:4 John sees Jesus as <em>the life<\/em> and there can be no <em>continuance<\/em> without Him. In 1:5-8 John sees Jesus as <em>the light<\/em> and there can be no <em>clarity<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0without Him. In 1:11 John sees Jesus as <em>the lowly<\/em> and there can be no <em>Calvary<\/em>\u00a0without Him. In 1:12-13 John sees Jesus as <em>the liberty<\/em> and there can be no <em>conversion<\/em> without\u00a0Him. In 1:18 John sees Jesus as <em>the likeness<\/em> and there can be ne <em>comparison <\/em>without Him. This give a whole new meaning to the words <em>&#8220;without Him I can do nothing&#8221;.<\/em> I can say\u00a0of Jesus <em>He Lives, He Lives<\/em>, no matter what men may say. I know<em> He Lives, He Lives<\/em> within my heart.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse this Christmas morning on John&#8217;s birth announcement of Jesus. In verse one John sees Jesus as the letters and there can be no communication without Him. In [&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-1428","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\/1428","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=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6298,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions\/6298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}