{"id":5187,"date":"2026-10-16T13:20:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T13:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/?p=5187"},"modified":"2026-10-16T13:20:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T13:20:31","slug":"servants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/16\/servants\/","title":{"rendered":"Servants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sin or righteousness&#8230;choose your master&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBecause of the weakness of your human nature, I am using the illustration of slavery to help you understand all this. Previously, you let yourselves be slaves to impurity and lawlessness, which led ever deeper into sin. Now you must give yourselves to be slaves to righteous living so that you will become holy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Romans 6:19 NLT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bible.com\/bible\/116\/rom.6.19.NLT?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAcGRvZgVicmlkETFaVkNFN3JhWVF2QTJaNnJtc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHvhce7TeUH1zN8tsxcfhvFQD9-6bo5WPG2yqoU_7S2ATB1e2JKYZy6A5By0X_aem_ZmtKxK9L7ZswTUWwO5PvIQ\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/bible.com\/bible\/116\/rom.6.19.NLT<\/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\/jehyun-sung-6U5AEmQIajg-unsplash-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/jehyun-sung-6U5AEmQIajg-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/jehyun-sung-6U5AEmQIajg-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/jehyun-sung-6U5AEmQIajg-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/jehyun-sung-6U5AEmQIajg-unsplash-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/jehyun-sung-6U5AEmQIajg-unsplash.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sin or righteousness&#8230;choose your master&#8230; \u201cBecause of the weakness of your human nature, I am using the illustration of slavery to help you understand all this. Previously, you let yourselves be slaves to impurity and lawlessness, which led ever deeper into sin. Now you must give yourselves to be slaves to righteous living so that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5187","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\/jehyun-sung-6U5AEmQIajg-unsplash.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187","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=5187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5189,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187\/revisions\/5189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}