{"id":3985,"date":"2021-04-03T13:26:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T13:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/?p=3985"},"modified":"2021-04-03T13:26:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T13:26:29","slug":"buried-raised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/?p=3985","title":{"rendered":"Buried &#038; Raised"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>12\u00a0<\/sup>when you were buried with him\u00a0in baptism, in which you were also raised with him\u00a0through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. (Colossians 2:19 CSB)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What does it mean when the scripture says we are to be buried and raised?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In being buried we are dead to our sins. We have given up our old ways and are living a life renewed. Renewed because we are then raised with Christ through faith to a new life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now we are working to live out our faith in a way worthy of Him who raised Christ. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the day between the cross and the resurrection  we are given time to consider what we need to bury in our lives. So that we rise on Easter to a new day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12\u00a0when you were buried with him\u00a0in baptism, in which you were also raised with him\u00a0through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. (Colossians 2:19 CSB) What does it mean when the scripture says we are to be buried and raised? In being buried we are dead to our sins. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3986,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985\/revisions\/3986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}