{"id":3122,"date":"2012-05-14T14:15:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T14:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=3122"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:26:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:26:50","slug":"mercy-gone-grace-is-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=3122","title":{"rendered":"Mercy Gone Grace Is Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse on a final\u00a0thought from Ephesians 2:7 and <strong><em>the before and after picture grace<\/em>\u00a0and <em>the praise of eternity.<\/em><\/strong> We have been looking at <strong><em>the wonder of praise<\/em><\/strong>. We are told here that in heaven mercy will be\u00a0gone and that in the ages to come He will show the riches of His grace. In the temptation story Satan showed which is a brief moment all that he had to Christ. God will take\u00a0all the\u00a0ages to come to show His grace. The phrase ages to come means the turning of an\u00a0endless novel. My what a marvelous before and after picture of grace. I\u00a0 must admit my picture is not done but I see evidence that it is being painted by Christ and I can say would John Newton <strong><em>amazing Grace how sweet the sound that saved a\u00a0wretch like me I once was\u00a0lost but now I&#8217;m found was blind but now I see.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse on a final\u00a0thought from Ephesians 2:7 and the before and after picture grace\u00a0and the praise of eternity. We have been looking at the wonder of praise. We [&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-3122","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\/3122","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=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5618,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions\/5618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}