{"id":4056,"date":"2019-03-01T15:11:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T15:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/2019\/03\/01\/strange-new-creature\/"},"modified":"2019-03-01T15:11:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T15:11:01","slug":"strange-new-creature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/01\/strange-new-creature\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange new creature"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;background-color:rgb(204,204,204);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none;text-align:left;\">Therefore if any man<span> <\/span><\/span><i class=\"add\" style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;\">be<\/i><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;background-color:rgb(204,204,204);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none;text-align:left;\"><span> <\/span>in Christ,<span> <\/span><\/span><i class=\"add\" style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;\">he is<\/i><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;background-color:rgb(204,204,204);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none;text-align:left;\"><span> <\/span>a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.<\/span> 2 Corinthians 5:21<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Once upon a time, you were just a person.<\/p>\n<p>But now that you&#8217;re in Christ, you are a strange and peculiar, brand new creature.<\/p>\n<p>The outer shell may look the same, but it is being tangibly transformed by the <i>weird newness<\/i> you carry on the inside of you.<\/p>\n<p>This new you can do everything that Jesus did when He was on the Earth, and even much more. (John 14:12)<\/p>\n<p>You are living within a context, but you are not limited by it.<\/p>\n<p>You have a new nature, new instincts, new abilities and new capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>You are something that you have never seen before&#8230;something that the world hasn&#8217;t seen before.<\/p>\n<p>And today, you have the amazing privilege of looking at yourself in the mirror of the Word, and living based on what you see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 2 Corinthians 5:21 Once upon a time, you were just a person. But now that you&#8217;re in Christ, you are a strange and peculiar, brand new creature. The outer shell may look &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/01\/strange-new-creature\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Strange new creature&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}