{"id":4209,"date":"2026-06-21T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/?p=4209"},"modified":"2026-06-24T15:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T14:47:13","slug":"freedom-shaped-by-the-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/freedom-shaped-by-the-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Shaped by the Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Grace Shaped Lives, part 7. As Christians, we&#8217;re free to do many things the Old Covenant forbade. Yet we exercise freedom responsibly, not wanting to hinder others, but instead act in love, seeking to glorify God.<!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><style>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/style><\/p><div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uy1YySVXCiI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5><strong>Audio only:<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/soundcloud%253Atracks%253A2345359358&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/kings-church\" title=\"Kings Church\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Kings Church<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/kings-church\/freedom-shaped-by-the-cross\" title=\"Freedom Shaped by the Cross \u2014 Andy Thorpe\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Freedom Shaped by the Cross \u2014 Andy Thorpe<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grace Shaped Lives, part 7. As Christians, we&#8217;re free to do many things the Old Covenant forbade. Yet we exercise freedom responsibly, not wanting to hinder others, but instead act in love, seeking to glorify God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[450],"tags":[48,433,54,80,213,77,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4210,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209\/revisions\/4210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}