{"id":3343,"date":"2012-08-30T11:10:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T11:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=3343"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:26:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:26:01","slug":"knowledge-and-temperance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=3343","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge And Temperance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from\u00a0II Peter 1:5-6 <strong><em>Peter&#8217;s precious pictures about the promise of divine transformation<\/em><\/strong>. Peter tells us if Christ lives in us there will be a transformation that will show forth in the traits of <strong><em>knowledge and temperance<\/em><\/strong>. The word knowledge means what is to be known or understood about a subject and it only comes about through\u00a0revelation. This knowledge will cause us to have the mind of Christ. Temperance is a strong self-control over all passions and desires. The one whom Christ dwells in\u00a0will not\u00a0full fill God-given appetites in unholy ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from\u00a0II Peter 1:5-6 Peter&#8217;s precious pictures about the promise of divine transformation. Peter tells us if Christ lives in us there will be a transformation [&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-3343","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\/3343","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=3343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5547,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions\/5547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}