{"id":1213,"date":"2021-05-31T19:40:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T18:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2021-05-31T19:40:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T18:40:47","slug":"cancelled-or-crucified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=1213","title":{"rendered":"cancelled or crucified?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>People will cancel you today \u2013 but not if you\u2019re already dead!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><em>Here, let me help you. Leave your coats with me\u2026 I\u2019ll watch them until you\u2019re finished\u201d. The helpful young man had an intense presence. He was clearly eager to watch the older men carry out God\u2019s holy work\u2026 A high-octane crowd had gathered. Excited, angry voices and white-hot passions focussed entirely on one man, Greek[1]named by his parents for the winner\u2019s podium. This was the enemy \u2013 God\u2019s enemy. It was time to rid the world of him and his kind. It was so clear to everyone\u2026 this sinner must die under a hail of indignation \u2013 the stones of the righteous. As the murderous rain pounded his body, somehow he found the voice that all were meant to hear: \u201cLord Jesus, receive my spirit\u2026 do not hold this sin against them!\u201d (Acts 7)<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:more --><\/p>\n<div class=\"swpm-more-tag-not-logged-in swpm-margin-top-10\">You need to login to view the rest of the content. Please <a class=\"swpm-login-link\" href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=733&swpm_redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fswordmagazine.net%2Findex.php\">Login<\/a>. Not a Member? <a href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=731\">Join Us<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People will cancel you today \u2013 but not if you\u2019re already dead! Here, let me help you. Leave your coats with me\u2026 I\u2019ll watch them [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,78],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}