{"id":15431,"date":"2025-02-27T09:50:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T14:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15431"},"modified":"2025-02-27T09:52:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T14:52:45","slug":"reading-in-colossians-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15431\/reading-in-colossians-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading in Colossians 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hey Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I loved what we read\u00a0yesterday\u00a0morning in Colossians 2!<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"13\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And\u00a0<em>y<\/em>ou, being dead in transgressions and the uncircumcision of\u00a0<em>y<\/em>our flesh, He made alive with him, forgiving us of all transgressions,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">after he had blotted out that which was against us, the handwriting of ordinances that was contrary to us, removing it from between us when he nailed it to the cross,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">by which, stripping the rulers and authorities, he exposed them publicly, leading them along in a Triumph.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After you read this,\u00a0I thought, &#8220;Wow!\u00a0\u00a0I&#8217;ve been looking at that all wrong!&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 I know that you&#8217;ve explained this to us before,\u00a0but it did not go in like it did this morning!\u00a0 I had the thought,\u00a0<em>there is nothing about Jesus that is downtrodden!\u00a0 There is a wonderful purpose for everything!<\/em>\u00a0 So, so good!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Michelle\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Comments welcome:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1895124731952841071\">https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1895124731952841071<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Pastor John, I loved what we read\u00a0yesterday\u00a0morning in Colossians 2! And\u00a0you, being dead in transgressions and the uncircumcision of\u00a0your flesh, He made alive with him, forgiving us of all transgressions, after he had blotted out that which was against us, the handwriting of ordinances that was contrary to us, removing it from between us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15433,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15431\/revisions\/15433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}