{"id":4114,"date":"2014-09-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/my-old-self-has-been-crucified-with-christ-it-is-no-longer-i-who-live-but-christ-lives-in-me-so-i-live-in-this-earthly-body-by-trusting-in-the-son-of-god-who-loved-me-and-gave-himself-for-me-ga\/"},"modified":"2014-09-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T00:00:00","slug":"my-old-self-has-been-crucified-with-christ-it-is-no-longer-i-who-live-but-christ-lives-in-me-so-i-live-in-this-earthly-body-by-trusting-in-the-son-of-god-who-loved-me-and-gave-himself-for-me-ga","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/my-old-self-has-been-crucified-with-christ-it-is-no-longer-i-who-live-but-christ-lives-in-me-so-i-live-in-this-earthly-body-by-trusting-in-the-son-of-god-who-loved-me-and-gave-himself-for-me-ga","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me&#8221; (Galatians 2:20 NLT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christianity is not a self-improvement course. We are not called to come and do, but to come and die. For the new life follows not self-improvement, but self-denial. We consider our old self &#8220;crucified with Christ&#8221; and our new self risen with Him to new life. We die to sin and we also die to self-effort, no longer trying to please God by following some set of religious rules and regulations that we are unable to keep. Dying to self, we live by Christ, &#8220;trusting&#8221; in Him to live His life in us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christianity is not a self-improvement course. We are not called to come and do, but to come and die. For the new life follows not self-improvement, but self-denial. We consider our old self &#8220;crucified with Christ&#8221; and our new self risen with Him to new life. We die to sin and we also die to self-effort, no longer trying to please God by following some set of religious rules and regulations that we are unable to keep. Dying to self, we live by Christ, &#8220;trusting&#8221; in Him to live His life in us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[1315],"scripture-chapter":[1335],"oyb_day":[1786],"location":[],"class_list":["post-4114","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","scripture-book-galatians","scripture-chapter-1335","oyb_day-september-16"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/4114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oyb"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4114"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=4114"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=4114"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=4114"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=4114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}