{"id":1550,"date":"2010-06-18T11:07:01","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T11:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:17","slug":"drawing-from-our-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1550","title":{"rendered":"Drawing From Our Position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us begin today to\u00a0muse from Colossians 2:11-15 and the truth of<em><strong> drawing from\u00a0our position<\/strong><\/em>. Paul shares several truths in this\u00a0text that we can draw\u00a0great help from, because we are<em><strong> complete in Christ<\/strong><\/em>. One of these \u00a0is the fact mentioned in verse 11,\u00a0 that we are<em><strong> circumcised in Him<\/strong><\/em>. In the Old Testament it was a covenant sign of a physical operation that marked you as a Jewish person. In Romans\u00a02 we find that it is a spiritual operation of the circumcision of the heart. Let us through the Spirit because of our position in Christ bow to the removal of the flesh about our spiritual heart. This circumcision will cause us to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us begin today to\u00a0muse from Colossians 2:11-15 and the truth of drawing from\u00a0our position. Paul shares several truths in this\u00a0text that we can draw\u00a0great help from, because we are [&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-1550","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\/1550","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=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6165,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions\/6165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}