{"id":10044,"date":"2022-01-30T06:38:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T12:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-romans-6\/"},"modified":"2021-12-28T15:24:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T21:24:09","slug":"devotional-on-romans-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-romans-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional on Romans"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15996\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15996\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/PHOTO_20140620_193632.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/PHOTO_20140620_193632-1024x578.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"542\" class=\"size-large wp-image-15996\" srcset=\"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/PHOTO_20140620_193632-1024x578.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/PHOTO_20140620_193632-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/PHOTO_20140620_193632-768x433.jpg 768w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/PHOTO_20140620_193632-1536x866.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/PHOTO_20140620_193632.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2014 &#8211; Chehalis, WA Thousand Trails &#8211; chapel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Freedom <\/p>\n<p>Romans 6: You are dead to sin and alive to God.<\/p>\n<p>The topic is freedom.  When I was bound in sin, living a dead end life without hope Jesus came to rescue me.  Taking my sin as his own, he carried it to death, stripping it of its grip on me.  Then, in the resurrection, the possibility of new life came to me.  When I join Christ at the cross I die to sin.  When I join him at the tomb on resurrection morning, that resurrection life becomes mine.  Now, I stand a free man, made new by the work of Christ.  I\u2019m filled with thanksgiving and forever indebted to the One who has made it all possible.  The freedom I\u2019ve received is a cherished possession, one that I guard carefully, realizing that some acts are out of bounds for me because to do them would place me back in bondage from whence I came.  Instead, I willingly serve the One who gave me freedom, bound, not by sin and death, but by love.  <\/p>\n<p>Take Away: I\u2019m bound\u2026not by sin, but by God\u2019s love.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freedom Romans 6: You are dead to sin and alive to God. The topic is freedom. When I was bound in sin, living a dead end life without hope Jesus came to rescue me. Taking my sin as his own, he carried it to death, stripping it of its grip on me. Then, in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1529,1428],"tags":[1299,374,678,691,921],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10044"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10044"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15998,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10044\/revisions\/15998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}