{"id":7562,"date":"2023-04-10T11:50:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T16:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7562"},"modified":"2023-04-11T08:24:44","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T13:24:44","slug":"freedom-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7562","title":{"rendered":"Freedom! (?!?!?)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What a stupid outcry when left undefined!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Freedom for what!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Freedom to sin?&nbsp; Freedom to blaspheme?&nbsp; Freedom to murder children in the womb?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How about yelling &#8220;Restriction!&#8221;?&nbsp; No murder, no blasphemy, no stealing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How about yelling &#8220;Restrain yourself!&#8221; from coveting, from lusting, from dereliction of duty!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rather: cheers for <em>righteous<\/em> freedom!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How about freedom to repent and confess sins resulting in forgiveness?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How about freedom <em>from the bondage of sin<\/em>?\u00a0\u00a0 How about freedom <em>from the condemnation of the law<\/em> thanks to the work of the Triune God: the Father sending the Son to die for\u00a0 our sins and then for\u00a0the freedom available to us as the Spirit applies His sanctifying power to our redeemed bodies and souls?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">10 April, 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a stupid outcry when left undefined! Freedom for what! Freedom to sin?&nbsp; Freedom to blaspheme?&nbsp; Freedom to murder children in the womb? How about yelling &#8220;Restriction!&#8221;?&nbsp; No murder, no blasphemy, no stealing! How about yelling &#8220;Restrain yourself!&#8221; from coveting, from lusting, from dereliction of duty! Rather: cheers for righteous freedom! How about freedom to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,56,53,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character-or-not","category-liberty","category-salvation","category-sanctity-of-human-beings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7562"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7572,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7562\/revisions\/7572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}