{"id":1488,"date":"2010-03-11T12:03:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T12:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=963"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:51","slug":"the-interceding-of-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1488","title":{"rendered":"The Interceding Of Forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Let us muse today from Isaiah 53:12, John 17:9 and &#8216;The <em>Interceding\u00a0Work Of Forgiveness&#8217;<\/em>. Think upon this thought. <em>&#8216;He Couldn&#8217;t Forgive, But He Could Intercede For It&#8217;<\/em>. He stood in my place on the cross. <em>He interceded to the author of forgiveness<\/em>. He was all God but for now He hung in the place of me, the sinner. He said, &#8216;Father, forgive them&#8217;. <em>He interceded forgiveness\u00a0for the abominable<\/em>. While we were yet sinners He died for us. <em>He interceded forgiveness &#8216;before our amazement&#8217;<\/em>. He said, &#8216;For they know not what they do&#8217;. He pleads our cluelessness to the Father. The cross of Jerusalem is the center of the world map. The molecules of our body have a cross shape at the back of them. The black hole at the center of the universe has a cross shape at its center. The cross is the center of all that God created and it is the embodiment of forgiveness. No wonder, from the cross He cried, &#8216;Father, forgive them for they know not what they do&#8217;.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Isaiah 53:12, John 17:9 and &#8216;The Interceding\u00a0Work Of Forgiveness&#8217;. Think upon this thought. &#8216;He Couldn&#8217;t Forgive, But He Could Intercede For It&#8217;. He stood 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-1488","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\/1488","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=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6236,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions\/6236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}