{"id":1551,"date":"2010-06-19T11:05:14","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T11:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:17","slug":"alive-in-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1551","title":{"rendered":"Alive In Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse\u00a0today from Colossians 2:12- 13 and<em><strong> drawing from our position in Christ<\/strong><\/em>. In this text we draw on the fact that we are<em><strong> alive in Him<\/strong><\/em>. When Christ died on the cross\u00a0I died\u00a0with Him. The picture of<em><strong> baptism<\/strong><\/em> in\u00a0our text tells us when He was buried, I was buried with Him. When He arose\u00a0I\u00a0arose \u00a0with Him. I am now\u00a0\u00a0alive in Christ. This position will cause me to walk by faith and enjoy the fact that<em><strong> all my trespasses are forgiven<\/strong><\/em>. The word trespasses\u00a0means to step out of God&#8217;s boundary line. The word forgiven means\u00a0to erase \u00a0totally and the\u00a0pardon of all. Because I am alive in Him, I will never die. When Jesus told Maratha, he that believes\u00a0 in Me shall never die, He then\u00a0said,<em><strong> believest thou this<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse\u00a0today from Colossians 2:12- 13 and drawing from our position in Christ. In this text we draw on the fact that we are alive in Him. When Christ [&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-1551","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\/1551","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=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6164,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions\/6164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}