{"id":5180,"date":"2026-10-14T13:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T13:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/?p=5180"},"modified":"2026-10-14T13:32:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T13:32:20","slug":"say-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/14\/say-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Say &#8220;No&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Understand and accept your new life&#8230;you are empowered to say no to sin&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. \u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Romans 6:11-12 ESV<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bible.com\/bible\/59\/rom.6.11-12.ESV?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAcGRvZgVicmlkETFFOXlsOWZsWDlqem9VR000c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHnabVqWvL5gA5W7trT5eovJdMO6AIXVWn2md2eMrAc-z_WvkUjJRDfPwA2rg_aem_2GBXnRCdlgxEEI0Iy9ItxQ\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/bible.com\/bible\/59\/rom.6.11-12.ESV<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/kai-pilger-1k3vsv7iIIc-unsplash-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/kai-pilger-1k3vsv7iIIc-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/kai-pilger-1k3vsv7iIIc-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/kai-pilger-1k3vsv7iIIc-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/kai-pilger-1k3vsv7iIIc-unsplash-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/kai-pilger-1k3vsv7iIIc-unsplash.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understand and accept your new life&#8230;you are empowered to say no to sin&#8230; \u201cSo you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. \u201d Romans 6:11-12 ESV https:\/\/bible.com\/bible\/59\/rom.6.11-12.ESV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5180","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\/kai-pilger-1k3vsv7iIIc-unsplash.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180","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=5180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5182,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions\/5182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}