{"id":3758,"date":"2013-06-14T11:43:50","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T11:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=3758"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:25:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:25:53","slug":"born-of-the-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=3758","title":{"rendered":"Born Of The Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from first Peter 1:23-25 and <strong><em>the Gospel according to the new birth<\/em><\/strong>. I see in verse 23 and that we or born-again not by a corruptible seed. The word corruptible means to\u00a0decay, perish, or wither away. We are not born from above with a corruptible seed but with an incorruptible which is\u00a0the <strong><em>word of God<\/em><\/strong>. This seed our text tells us will not pass away. As with the virgin birth in\u00a0Mary, when I was born from above the Father placed within\u00a0me the\u00a0incorruptible seed of the word of God, the Holy Ghost\u00a0brooded over it, quicken it,\u00a0and birth with in\u00a0me the Son of God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from first Peter 1:23-25 and the Gospel according to the new birth. I see in verse 23 and that we or born-again not by a corruptible [&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-3758","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\/3758","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=3758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5411,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758\/revisions\/5411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}