{"id":3766,"date":"2013-06-17T20:12:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T20:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=3766"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:25:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:25:53","slug":"miracles-of-the-new-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=3766","title":{"rendered":"Miracles Of The New Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again\u00a0today from Luke 1:35 and the theme of <strong><em>the Gospel according to the new birth<\/em><\/strong>. In our text today we\u00a0are told of\u00a0all the elements that are\u00a0present in the virgin birth. I find in <strong><em>the new birth<\/em> <\/strong>in being born from above all these elements must be present as well. The text says that thing that shall be born of Mary shall be called the\u00a0Son God. The word thing speaks of the seed. In my new birth God planted the seed inside me, the Holy Ghost\u00a0 came up on me, and the Holy Spirit brooded over this seed and birth in\u00a0me the\u00a0Son God.\u00a0In being born from above I have experienced the miracle of the new birth. I noticed God never asked Mary if she would be interested in, give permission for, or received the virgin born Son of God in her. He just did it and it was so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again\u00a0today from Luke 1:35 and the theme of the Gospel according to the new birth. In our text today we\u00a0are told of\u00a0all the elements that are\u00a0present 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-3766","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\/3766","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=3766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5409,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766\/revisions\/5409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}