{"id":1555,"date":"2010-06-23T11:08:13","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T11:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:17","slug":"fleeing-from-legalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1555","title":{"rendered":"Fleeing From Legalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse\u00a0today again from Colossians 2:16\u00a0where we are\u00a0reminded to<em><strong> flee from legalism<\/strong><\/em>. Paul begins in verse 16 with the word\u00a0<em><strong> therefore<\/strong><\/em> which gives us<em><strong> the basis of freedom<\/strong><\/em>. When we see the word therefore it always refers back to the previously discussed material. The basis of all\u00a0our freedom depends on our\u00a0completeness in Christ. There is nothing I do or don&#8217;t do that can affect that position. We are also confronted with<em><strong> the bondage of legalism<\/strong><\/em>. Anything that is imposed upon you from an outside source and comes with the thought, this will make you a better Christian, becomes only a yoke of bondage about your neck. In verse 16 I see<em><strong> the blessings of grace<\/strong><\/em>. If I relie on\u00a0anything outward to enhance my Christian life, I am trading the substance of Christ for the\u00a0shadow of the real thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse\u00a0today again from Colossians 2:16\u00a0where we are\u00a0reminded to flee from legalism. Paul begins in verse 16 with the word\u00a0 therefore which gives us the basis of freedom. When [&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-1555","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\/1555","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=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6160,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions\/6160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}