{"id":3989,"date":"2013-09-30T11:18:11","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T11:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=3989"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:48","slug":"musing-through-matthew-the-mode-of-baptism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=3989","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew-The Mode Of Baptism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Matthew 3:16 and the\u00a0theme of <strong><em>Jesus the King<\/em><\/strong>. In our text today I see <strong><em>the mode\u00a0of baptism<\/em><\/strong>. I do not make this a point of argument or separation but it is clear to me in the phrase He came up straight way out of the water that the mode here is not sprinkling but immersion. It is also clear to me that the one being baptized is making the statement.\u00a0Let us be careful in seeing more in baptism than the Bible has to say about the subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Matthew 3:16 and the\u00a0theme of Jesus the King. In our text today I see the mode\u00a0of baptism. I do not make this a point of [&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-3989","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\/3989","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=3989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5354,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989\/revisions\/5354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}