{"id":5174,"date":"2026-10-12T17:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T17:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/?p=5174"},"modified":"2026-10-12T17:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T17:51:16","slug":"death-or-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/12\/death-or-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Death or Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sin yields death&#8230; God&#8217;s grace yields life&#8230;you choose&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNow the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Romans 5:20-21 ESV<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bible.com\/bible\/59\/rom.5.20-21.ESV?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAcGRvZgVicmlkETFvRWlGOWo2THhsanZac2xQc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHm-rN8w0QzocjR0DwGWQOAu9GGvKTx2owoKg0D6xUeLp-ZSIOFTuCnuC_Q6O_aem_bwWFblU2sOollMdUdVMwIQ\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/bible.com\/bible\/59\/rom.5.20-21.ESV<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" src=\"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/mario-dobelmann-QKBc8uYQDH0-unsplash-1024x679.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/mario-dobelmann-QKBc8uYQDH0-unsplash-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/mario-dobelmann-QKBc8uYQDH0-unsplash-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/mario-dobelmann-QKBc8uYQDH0-unsplash-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/mario-dobelmann-QKBc8uYQDH0-unsplash-1536x1018.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/mario-dobelmann-QKBc8uYQDH0-unsplash.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sin yields death&#8230; God&#8217;s grace yields life&#8230;you choose&#8230; \u201cNow the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.\u201d Romans 5:20-21 ESV https:\/\/bible.com\/bible\/59\/rom.5.20-21.ESV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/mario-dobelmann-QKBc8uYQDH0-unsplash.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5176,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174\/revisions\/5176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}