{"id":1631,"date":"2010-10-04T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:12","slug":"paul-the-fettered-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1631","title":{"rendered":"Paul The Fettered Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse today from our last musing\u00a0from Colossians<em><strong>. If you have read all or most of the Colossians musings give me an e-mail shout out. <\/strong><\/em>The final one gives us Paul&#8217;s signature in Colossians 4:18 and tells us <em><strong>Paul was a fettered man<\/strong><\/em>. Paul was not writing from a\u00a0high place but a lowly prison where he was in the bonds of\u00a0fettered chains. He has mentioned in this book\u00a0the bonds of philosophy, religious rituals, and\u00a0binding legalism that binds some in Colossae. Paul says, he would rather have his bonds than\u00a0to have theirs. The reason for Paul&#8217;s desire for his bonds was that they were accompany\u00a0with grace. It matters not where we find our self if we are favored with the grace of Christ&#8217;s present, it is a good place to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse today from our last musing\u00a0from Colossians. If you have read all or most of the Colossians musings give me an e-mail shout out. The final one gives us [&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-1631","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\/1631","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=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6084,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions\/6084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}