{"id":1564,"date":"2010-07-04T11:06:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T11:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:16","slug":"uncleanness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1564","title":{"rendered":"Uncleanness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse again\u00a0Colossians 3:5 and<em><strong> sins to die to<\/strong><\/em>. Paul has introduced us to a portrait of the old man. He has no\u00a0beauty for us when we look at his portrait, but we are certainly drawn to his tricks. One of his five favorite sins is<em><strong> uncleanness<\/strong><\/em>. It is foul, lustful behavior which usually begins in the mind and is\u00a0lived out \u00a0in loose living.\u00a0Oh how the mind\u00a0is the stronghold of many of our sins.<em><strong> &#8220;The old man watches sleepless for an opportunity to seize control of the body that it\u00a0once owned\u00a0for yet another fling. He is like a sleeping\u00a0vampire of a horrid\u00a0story. He\u00a0lies there\u00a0in his grave,\u00a0a den\u00a0of darkness, waiting his chance to seize by the throat and satisfy his\u00a0horrid appetites and thirst. We must drive the stake of the\u00a0cross of\u00a0Christ through his hellish heart. We must deny him access to our members by reckoning him dead by the power of the cross<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;.(Phillips)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse again\u00a0Colossians 3:5 and sins to die to. Paul has introduced us to a portrait of the old man. He has no\u00a0beauty for us when we look at his [&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-1564","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\/1564","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=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6151,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions\/6151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}