wp return term id from taxonomy & slug

// get ID of the term "open" using it's slug from the taxonomy "resource_tag"
$tag_open = get_term_by( 'slug', 'open', 'resource_tag' );

// get ID of the term "home" using it's slug from the taxonomy "resource_tag"
$tag_home = get_term_by( 'slug', 'home', 'resource_tag' );

// add any other terms to exclude here ...

// exclude category from term list by ID ##
echo ql_get_the_term_list( get_the_ID(), 'resource_tag',  '', ', ', '', array( $tag_open->term_id, $tag_home->term_id ) );

// get term list with exclusion by ID ##
function ql_get_the_term_list( $id = 0, $taxonomy, $before = '', $sep = '', $after = '', $exclude = array() ) {

        $exclude_string = implode ( ',', $exclude );
        $terms = get_terms( $taxonomy, array(
                    'exclude' => $exclude_string,
                ) );

    if ( is_wp_error( $terms ) )
            return $terms;

    if ( empty( $terms ) )
            return false;

    foreach ( $terms as $term ) {

            if( has_term( $term->name, $taxonomy ) ) { // filter by has_term() ##
                $link = get_term_link( $term, $taxonomy );
                if ( is_wp_error( $link ) )
                    return $link;
                $term_links[] = '<a href="' . $link . '" rel="tag">' . $term->name . '</a>';
            }
    }

    if ( $term_links ) {

            $term_links = apply_filters( "term_links-$taxonomy", $term_links );
            return $before . implode( $sep, $term_links ) . $after;

        } else {

            return 'None';

        }
}