{"id":3756,"date":"2013-06-12T19:23:43","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T19:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=3756"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:25:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:25:53","slug":"the-elements-of-the-new-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=3756","title":{"rendered":"The Element&#8217;s Of The New Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from John 3:5 and\u00a0<strong><em>the Gospel\u00a0according to the new birth<\/em><\/strong>. Today I want to begin to look at two elements which play\u00a0 a great role in causing one to be born again. The first that is mentioned is the <strong><em>water<\/em><\/strong>. In\u00a0our studies of\u00a0typology\u00a0water is often used to\u00a0speak of the word of God. Paul in speaking to the church at Ephesus said that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word. Let us look deeper in our next blog at the word&#8217;s part in our new birth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from John 3:5 and\u00a0the Gospel\u00a0according to the new birth. Today I want to begin to look at two elements which play\u00a0 a great role in [&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-3756","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\/3756","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=3756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5412,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions\/5412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}