{"id":5709,"date":"2019-09-30T04:11:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/death-is-not-death\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:11:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:04","slug":"death-is-not-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/death-is-not-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Is Not Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Death is not death if you know the Lord.  It is merely a change of place, a change of state, and a transferal from one realm of existence into another.<\/p>\n<p>      Death is not death, if it kills no part of us, except that which<br \/>\n         hindered us from perfect life.<\/p>\n<p>      Death is not death, if it raises us in a moment from darkness<br \/>\n         into light, from weakness into strength, from sinfulness into<br \/>\n         holiness.<\/p>\n<p>      Death is not death, if it perfects our faith by sight, and lets<br \/>\n         us behold Him in whom we have believed.<\/p>\n<p>      Death is not death, if it rids us of doubt and fear, of sickness<br \/>\n         and disease, of sorrow and sadness.<\/p>\n<p>      Death is not death, if it gives us to those whom we have loved<br \/>\n         and lost, for whom we have lived, for whom we long to live again.<\/p>\n<p>      Death is not death; for Christ has conquered death, for Himself,<br \/>\n         and for those who trust in Him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death is not death if you know the Lord. It is merely a change of place, a change of state, and a transferal from one realm of existence into another. Death is not death, if it kills no part of us, except that which hindered us from perfect life. Death is not death, if it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[312,577,1609,725,255],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}