{"id":1597,"date":"2021-07-04T01:31:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T01:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2021-07-12T03:33:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T03:33:54","slug":"sunday-service-july-4-2021-true-freedom-in-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/?p=1597","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Service-July 4, 2021 &#8220;True Freedom in Christ&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fb.watch\/v\/4tNRr-YlC\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1598\" src=\"http:\/\/wlacc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/True-Freedom-in-Christ2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"655\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/True-Freedom-in-Christ2.jpg 655w, https:\/\/wlacc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/True-Freedom-in-Christ2-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wlacc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/True-Freedom-in-Christ2-500x274.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy Fourth of July to everyone. Today is the day that we traditionally celebrate our separation from the tyranny of Great Britain and our beginning as an independent nation.\u00a0 We call this day Independence Day but it really should be called Declaration of Independence Day.\u00a0 The reason for this is that the war against England already started on April 19, 1775 and it was on\u00a0July 4, 1776, that the Second Continental Congress unanimously adopted the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/guides.loc.gov\/declaration-of-independence\">Declaration of Independence<\/a>.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t until seven years later, on September 3, 1783, that the colonists successfully fought and won their independence from Great Britain.\u00a0 This Revolutionary War was a fight for freedom that not only freed us from England but also gave us the many liberties and privileges that we have today.\u00a0 But our true freedom is not what man has fought for or provided but the True Freedom God has given us through His Son, Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Fourth of July to everyone. Today is the day that we traditionally celebrate our separation from the tyranny of Great Britain and our beginning as an independent nation.\u00a0 We<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/?p=1597\" class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<svg class=\"icon icon-arrow-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"img\"> <use href=\"#icon-arrow-right\" xlink:href=\"#icon-arrow-right\"><\/use> <\/svg><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Service-July 4, 2021 &#8220;True Freedom in Christ&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-events","category-pastors-corner","category-sunday-service"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1599,"href":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions\/1599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}