{"id":2147,"date":"2012-08-01T14:11:23","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T18:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=2147"},"modified":"2012-08-01T14:11:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T18:11:23","slug":"for-by-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=2147","title":{"rendered":"For By Grace&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cFor by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,\u00a0not a result of works, so that no one may boast.\u00a0For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.\u201d \u2013 Ephesians 2:8-10 (ESV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>Through no obedience, efforts, or works of our own can we earn God\u2019s favor in our lives.\u00a0 Our salvation therefore, is not an achievement we may obtain, but instead is the ultimate expression of God\u2019s divine love for us; received through our faith, and bought with the blood of His Son, Jesus Christ.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,\u00a0not a result of works, so that no one may boast.\u00a0For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.\u201d \u2013 Ephesians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2088],"tags":[2914,3194,967,15,966,2915,59,269,1673,254],"class_list":["post-2147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-inspirations","tag-blood-of-christ","tag-daily-inspirations","tag-ephesians","tag-faith","tag-god","tag-gods-divine-love","tag-grace","tag-jesus","tag-pauls-epistle-to-the-ephesians","tag-salvation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-yD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2150,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions\/2150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}