{"id":3775,"date":"2013-06-24T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=3775"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:25:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:25:53","slug":"the-holy-ghost-part-in-the-new-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=3775","title":{"rendered":"The Holy Ghost Part In The New Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from\u00a0I Peter\u00a03:18, Ephesians 2:1, and <strong>the theme of the Gospel according to the new birth.<\/strong> We are looking today at <strong><em>the Holy Ghost part in my new birth.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0I Peter tells us that the Holy Ghost is the quickening agent in my new birth.\u00a0Ephesians says that when He saved me I was\u00a0dead or corpse\u00a0like. It is hard to get a dead man to do anything.\u00a0I talked\u00a0recently with a man who worked in a funeral home and he\u00a0told me he had never had a corpse help him do anything. So our story of the new birth tells us God the Father chose us, God the Son paid the price for the ones who had been chosen, and God the Holy Ghost came,raised\u00a0them from the dead, and sealed them until the day of redemption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from\u00a0I Peter\u00a03:18, Ephesians 2:1, and the theme of the Gospel according to the new birth. We are looking today at the Holy Ghost part 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-3775","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\/3775","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=3775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5405,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775\/revisions\/5405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}