{"id":2929,"date":"2019-04-25T13:27:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T20:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=2929"},"modified":"2019-04-25T13:27:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T20:27:29","slug":"death_river","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/death_river\/","title":{"rendered":"THE OTHER SIDE OF DEATH\u2019S RIVER"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2930 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/river1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/river1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/river1-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/river1-450x225.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A missionary in Brazil discovered a tribe of Indians in a remote area. \u00a0A contagious disease was ravaging the population. \u00a0To get medical attention they would need to cross a river\u2014a river, they believed, was inhabited by evil spirits. \u00a0The missionary told them how he had crossed the river unharmed. \u00a0No luck. \u00a0Finally, he swam beneath the surface and emerged on the other side. \u00a0Then the Indians followed him.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2931 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/river2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/river2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/river2-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/river2-450x225.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jesus saw people enslaved by their fear of death. \u00a0He explained that death was nothing to fear. \u00a0He called Lazarus out of the grave yet they were still cynical. \u00a0He had to submerge himself in the water of death before people would believe that death had been conquered. \u00a0And he came out on the other side of death\u2019s river. \u00a0He proved once and for all, our death, is not final.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":2930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[35],"class_list":["post-2929","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_entries-english-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/2929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/2929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=2929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}