{"id":1169,"date":"2023-12-18T18:29:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T18:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deadmannotwalking.org\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2023-12-18T18:29:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T18:29:44","slug":"advent-vi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deadmannotwalking.org\/?p=1169","title":{"rendered":"Advent VI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;&nbsp;Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.&nbsp; (Psalm 51:7, NASB)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">King David wrote Psalm 51 after his adultery with Bathsheba, and after he murdered her husband, Uriah the Hittite.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure that I wrote in my Bible in the margin next to Psalm 51, &#8220;How to pray when I blow it,&#8221; or something like that.\u00a0 But this is why Jesus came to the earth:\u00a0 To rescue us from our sins!\u00a0 This is why we celebrate in this season of Advent.\u00a0 Jesus has washed His people, so we &#8220;shall be whiter than snow.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"324\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/deadmannotwalking.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image.png?resize=525%2C324&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/deadmannotwalking.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image.png?w=944&amp;ssl=1 944w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/deadmannotwalking.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image.png?resize=300%2C185&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/deadmannotwalking.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image.png?resize=768%2C474&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Psalm 51:7 image.\u00a0 Found at The Soaring Eagle<br>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesoaringeagle.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/16\/wash-me-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/thesoaringeagle.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/16\/wash-me-2\/<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Below is my favorite rendition of &#8220;White Christmas,&#8221; because of the ending.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"White Christmas\/Whiter Than Snow\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GOIwBPPyoqM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Worship:&nbsp; &#8220;White Christmas&#8221;\/&#8221;Whiter Than Snow, &#8221; by Twila Paris&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chris Tomlin - Emmanuel (Hallowed Manger Ground) [Lyric Video]\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GDQoIND3yrQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Worship:&nbsp; &#8220;Emmanuel,&#8221; by Chris Tomlin&nbsp;<br>SHA&#8217;ALU SHALOM YARUSHALAYIM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;&nbsp;Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.&nbsp; (Psalm 51:7, NASB) King David wrote Psalm 51 after his adultery with Bathsheba, and after he murdered her husband, Uriah the Hittite.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure that I wrote in my Bible in the margin next to Psalm 51, &#8220;How &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/deadmannotwalking.org\/?p=1169\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Advent VI&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46,3,48,27,5,57,73,36,10],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advent","tag-als","tag-christmas","tag-faith","tag-hope","tag-jesus","tag-love","tag-salvation","tag-terminal-illness"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadmannotwalking.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadmannotwalking.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadmannotwalking.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadmannotwalking.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadmannotwalking.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deadmannotwalking.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171,"href":"https:\/\/deadmannotwalking.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadmannotwalking.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadmannotwalking.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadmannotwalking.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}