{"id":2738,"date":"2011-12-10T12:17:34","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T12:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=2738"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:26:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:26:56","slug":"the-blessedness-of-this-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=2738","title":{"rendered":"The Blessedness Of This Position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse today from Genesis 6: 5-8 and the storm\u00a0under the heading of <strong><em>the position to beheld in all storms.<\/em><\/strong> In our text I find<strong><em> the blessedness of this position<\/em><\/strong>. In verses 5-7 we find that\u00a0Noah was a part of this wicked generation and God was sorry and that he had made Noah. In verse eight because of nothing\u00a0Noah had done but in the midst of maybe 3 billion people\u00a0he found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Paul said that this was the grace of God, that He that was rich for our sakes\u00a0became\u00a0poor that we through His poverty might be made rich.\u00a0I\u00a0\u00a0found\u00a0grace with Him, was made rich by Him, and did nothing at all to merit such a position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse today from Genesis 6: 5-8 and the storm\u00a0under the heading of the position to beheld in all storms. In our text I find the blessedness of this position. [&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-2738","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\/2738","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=2738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5733,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions\/5733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}