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Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does\nit really matter whether death is the end or not?   It is clear from this letter that some of\nPaul\u2019s readers and hearers in Corinth believed that it didn\u2019t really matter.\nThey were viewing a belief in a future physical bodily resurrection as a\nhangover from Paul\u2019s Jewish background. \nThe standard Greek view which is recorded with consistency in many\nsurviving Greek works makes it very plain that they held a different viewpoint.\nThe historian Heroditus and the playwrights Sophocles and Aeschylus testify to\na denial of a bodily resurrection. \nAeschylus, in his play Eumenides has the character Apollo say: \u2018When the\nearth has drunk up a man\u2019s blood, once he is dead there is no resurrection.\u2019\nThe Greek philosophers were convinced that the body was corrupt and sinful and\nas a result it is better to be rid of it when you die. The clearly taught the\nimmortality of the soul, but separated it from the body. This view was a clear\ncontradiction of the Jewish religious view taught in the Old Testament in\nverses such as Daniel 12:2-3: Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the\nearth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting\ncontempt. 3 <\/sup><\/strong>Those who are wise will shine like\nthe brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like\nthe stars for ever and ever.<\/em> Over the centuries there have been\nmany people who have denied this clear biblical conviction. However, Christians\ncan point to an empty tomb in Jerusalem and express a very different point of\nview! Unlike other faiths that that point to the tombs or relics of their\nfounders, the Bible \u2013believing Christian can point to God\u2019s Word and declare\nthat what was prophesied hundreds of years before Jesus was born at Bethlehem\ncame true. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. It is an indisputable fact<\/strong> (I\nCorinthians 15:1-11)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 <\/em><\/strong>Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached\nto you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. 2 <\/sup><\/strong>By\nthis gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you.\nOtherwise, you have believed in vain<\/em>. \nThe Gospel message is not negotiable or changeable. There are many\nthings in life that change. Our age and appearance constantly change.  No seeing someone for a few weeks can make a\ndifference. Our health can be good or not so good; our educational or work\ncircumstances can be very different from one year to the next. The list is\nendless, but our anchor is Jesus Christ, of whom Hebrews 13;8 reminds us: Jesus Christ is the same<\/strong> yesterday and today and for ever<\/em>. This is the greatest good news of all to be able to rely on\nHim. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(a)A few things in life really matter<\/strong>\n(I Corinthians 15:3-4) <\/sup><\/em><\/strong>For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance<\/strong>:\nthat Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 <\/sup><\/strong>that\nHe was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,\n<\/em>What is top of Paul\u2019s list of gospel truths? He states it here in verses\nthree and four of I Corinthians 15. So much in life is about opinions.  What are your favourite clothes that you like\nto wear when you go for a night out? What is the best football team in this\ncity? What is the best popular singer or music group you have heard? There are\nso many things that are just opinions and don\u2019t really matter. However, Paul is\nmaking it very clear that this is 100% crucial for Christianity.  If the Easter events did not happen as the\nBible said then Christianity is dead. It is based on the bedrock of the\nhistorical accuracy of the extraordinary events that took place in Jerusalem\napproximately 2,000 years ago.  What are\nthe crucial facts here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(i) Christ died for our\nsins according to the Scriptures<\/em><\/strong> The Roman records of the day, if they\nhad survived would have recorded that a prisoner Jesus of Nazareth,\nacknowledged as the King of the Jews by His followers, was sentenced to die by\ncrucifixion on the orders of the Roman Governor Pontius Pilate. These secular\nrecords would not provide the information Paul has written here.  In early April 2019 I had the privilege of\nbeing in Israel and I visited the Roman Fortress in which Pilate lived in\nJerusalem and stood in the approximate place where Jesus was tried \u2013although\nthe building\u2019s appearance has changed over the centuries. I have looked at the\nPlace of the Skull, the place of execution in the vicinity of an old stone\nquarry, in sight of the old main road that went one way to Jericho and the\nother to Joppa (now Tel Aviv) and Caesarea. I have had the honour of looking\ninto an empty tomb and sharing in a worship service with bread and wine, just\ntwenty-five to thirty yards away. Now I can report what I saw but I wasn\u2019t\nthere two thousand years ago. Even an observer in the crowd then who could tell\nyou how Jesus died could not be certain as to why this event happened as it\ndid.  So where can we turn to for\nauthoritative guidance as to why Jesus died? \nPaul is abundantly clear here: according to the\nScriptures.<\/em> Where in the Bible do we have an explanation of the purpose of the\ndeath of the Messiah? It is in Isaiah 52:13-53:12 that the answers are given. A\nfew verses from that <\/em>section of the book of Isaiah explain\nit for us. Isaiah 53:5 states: But He was pierced for our\ntransgressions<\/strong>,<\/em> <\/em>He was crushed for our iniquities<\/strong>:<\/em> the punishment that brought us peace\nwas on Him,<\/em>   <\/em>and by His wounds we are healed.<\/em> <\/em>The last two verses Isaiah 53:11-12\nreinforce this message: After He has suffered,<\/em> He will see the light of\nlife and be satisfied; by His knowledgeMy righteous servant will\njustify many, and\nHe will bear their iniquities<\/strong>. 12<\/sup><\/strong>Therefore\nI will give Him a portion among the great, and He will divide the spoils with\nthe strong, because\nHe poured out His life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors.
\nFor He bore the sin of many<\/strong>, and made intercession for the transgressors<\/strong>.<\/em> <\/em>How does Paul express it in I Corinthians15:3?  that Christ died for our sins<\/strong>\u2026 <\/em>There are many words\nused in the Bible to express breaking \nGod\u2019s law, missing the mark or violating His holy standards for us.\nIsaiah uses three in these verses \u2013 transgressions, iniquities and sins. This,\nthen, is why Jesus died according to the Bible to pay the penalty for our sins\nso instead through His right standing before God the Father we can have direct\naccess into God\u2019s presence through faith in Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(ii) that He was buried<\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong>Mark 15:46 records what Joseph of\nArimathea, a member of the Jewish ruling council did after it was confirmed\nJesus was dead. So\nJoseph bought some linen cloth, took down the body, wrapped it in the linen,\nand placed it in a tomb cut out of rock. Then he rolled a stone against the\nentrance of the tomb<\/em>. Matthew\u2019s account adds some crucial details in\nMatthew 27:57-61: 57 <\/sup><\/em><\/strong>As evening approached, there came a rich man<\/strong> from Arimathea, named Joseph,\nwho had himself become a disciple of Jesus. 58 <\/sup><\/strong>Going\nto Pilate, he asked for Jesus\u2019 body, and Pilate ordered that it be given to\nhim. 59 <\/sup><\/strong>Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean\nlinen cloth, 60 <\/sup><\/strong>and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the\nrock<\/strong>. He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went\naway. 61 <\/sup><\/strong>Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were\nsitting there opposite the tomb.<\/em> Joseph is a wealthy man who owns a site almost certainly\nadjacent to his home, outside the city walls, where he had arranged for the\nbuilding of a burial chamber carved out of the rock for the use of him and his\nfamily.  He is accompanied by other\nfollowers of Jesus some of whom assisted him in preparing Jesus\u2019 body for\nburial.  There can be no mistake about\nthe site as it is close to the place of execution. What is more the ladies who\nwill be the first witnesses of the resurrection on Easter Sunday morning are\nthere earlier sitting near the sealed tomb. It was a respectful burial\naccording to Jewish customs, albeit a little rushed as time was short that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(iii) that He was raised on the\nthird day according to the Scriptures <\/strong><\/em>This is the game\nchanger that was completely unexpected by the first followers of Jesus. It\nseems it is only the Jewish religious leaders that feared something unusual\nmight happen over the next three days (see Matthew 27:62-66). They went to the\nRoman Governor and asked for maximum security conditions be imposed on the now\ndead prisoner.  Matthew 27:65-66 states:  <\/sup><\/strong>\u2018Take a guard,\u2019 Pilate answered. \u2018Go, make the tomb\nas secure as you know how.\u2019 66 <\/sup><\/strong>So they went and\nmade the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.<\/em> It was a most extraordinary spectacle, a\ndetachment of soldiers guarding a tomb to prevent the escape of the man who had\ndied or the removal of His body by persons unknown. Was this event predictable?\nYes.  Jesus repeatedly in Mark eight,\nnine and ten referred to His death and resurrection.  For example, Mark 8:31: He then began to teach them that the Son of Man\nmust suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and\nthe teachers of the law, and that He must be killed and after three days rise\nagain.<\/em> In Mark 9 there is the extraordinary\nTransfiguration of Jesus on Mount Hermon, the only really high mountain in the area,\nafter the conclusion of this event Mark records this conversation involving\nJesus and His disciples. As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus gave them orders\nnot to tell anyone what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead<\/strong>. 10 <\/sup><\/strong>They\nkept the matter to themselves, discussing what \u2018rising from the dead\u2019<\/strong> meant<\/em> (Mark 9:9-10). The conversation continued that same week and\nthe words Jesus spoke in Mark 8:31 are effectively repeated in Mark 9:31 and\nfollowed by similar ones in Mark 10:33-34. The Early Church saw a fulfilment of\nprophecy from Psalm 16:10: You will not abandon Me to the realm of the dead,<\/em> nor will you let\nyour faithful One see decay. <\/em>In the very first Christian sermon Peter on the Day of\nPentecost declared in Acts 2:31-32 this reference to David\u2019s words in Psalm 16:21-22: Seeing what was to come, he spoke of the resurrection\nof the Messiah, that He was not\nabandoned to the realm of the dead<\/strong>, nor\ndid His body see decay<\/strong>. 32 <\/sup><\/strong>God has raised this Jesus to life<\/strong>, and we are all witnesses of it. <\/em>When it happened these first followers of Jesus\ncould know it had been predicted in their Bible, one thousand years earlier!\nHow amazing is that?! However, there is another crucial point this event was\nnot only predicted in the Bible, but also witnessed first-hand.   <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(b) First-hand witnesses are crucial<\/strong> (I Corinthians 15:5-11) 5<\/sup><\/strong>and that He appeared to Cephas, and then to the\nTwelve. 6 <\/sup><\/strong>After that, He appeared to more than five\nhundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time, most of whom are still\nliving, though some have fallen asleep. 7 <\/sup><\/strong>Then He\nappeared to James, then to all the apostles, 8 <\/sup><\/strong>and\nlast of all He appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.<\/em> 9 <\/sup><\/em><\/strong>For I am the least of the apostles and\ndo not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of\nGod. 10 <\/sup><\/strong>But by the grace of God I am what I am, and\nhis grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of\nthem \u2013 yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. 11 <\/sup><\/strong>Whether,\nthen, it is I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed. <\/em>In a court of law\nwitnesses of an event testify what they saw and heard. In a criminal case often\nthere are only one or two or a few witnesses of a crime being committed who can\npoint to who was the perpetrator of the act and who was a victim of the wrong\nbehaviour. The bodily resurrection from the dead of Jesus is the most\nextraordinary event in human history and it was essential that there were\nwitnesses who could testify that Jesus who had died and was buried in a tomb\nwas now alive again. When Paul wrote I Corinthians in 55AD approximately\ntwenty-two years after this miraculous event took place he could remind his\nreaders and hearers that nearly 500 of the witnesses were still alive. Most of\nthese men and women are unnamed, but the first disciples especially Simon\nPeter, Jesus\u2019 step-brother James, the leader of the church in Jerusalem, and\nlast but not least Paul himself, met with Jesus while travelling on the road to\nDamascus in Syria. The majority of people who come to faith in Jesus can\nidentify a person or a small number of people who shared with them about\nJesus.  When was the last time you spoke\nto someone about Jesus? The Easter season is a wonderful time to share the\nextraordinary events that took place in Jerusalem that changed the world.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. It is an unanswerable argument <\/strong>(I\nCorinthians 15:12-19)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(a)The\nproblem to face <\/strong>(I Corinthians 15:12) 12 <\/sup><\/em><\/strong>But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can\nsome of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? <\/em>What was the problem\nin Corinth? Greek philosophers had taught consistently the doctrine of the\nimmortality of the soul. They saw the body as sinful and corrupt and viewed\ndeath as liberation from something you can well do without \u2013 your physical\nbody! Therefore, when Christian preachers or individuals sharing their faith\ntestimony say that Jesus who died on the cross was raised to life again on the\nfirst Easter Sunday and raised with a physical body that can eat food and can\nbe touched and handled, there is a big problem! Either this foundational\nteaching of Greek philosophy is wrong or the followers of Jesus were mistaken.\nWhen the first Christians in Greece were starting to tell others about Jesus it\nwas likely people said how can the majority be wrong? However, it is not\ndecided by numbers. The majority of people can be wrong and a minority can\nsometimes be right about something. What is most important, says Paul, is that\nthere are primary witnesses who were there. These men and women knew Jesus had\ndied and was buried in a tomb, but they saw Him alive in the weeks after His\nbodily resurrection. Witnesses who can confirm an event took place have\npriority over the opinions of people who were not there. The evidence for the\nbodily resurrection of Jesus is very strong. Alternative opinions are just that\nsays Paul. However, just for a moment, he says, if Jesus had not come back to\nlife again as He said He would, what are the implications for our faith and\npractice as Christians?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(b) No resurrection No future! <\/strong>(I Corinthians 15:13-15) 13<\/sup><\/em><\/strong>If there is no resurrection of the dead,\nthen not even Christ has been raised. 14 <\/sup><\/strong>And if\nChrist has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your\nfaith. 15 <\/sup><\/strong>More than that, we are then found to be\nfalse witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that He raised\nChrist from the dead. But He did not raise Him if in fact the dead are not\nraised. <\/em>(i) Our preaching is useless The Christian gospel is\ncentred on the death and resurrection of Jesus. The very first Christian sermon\ngiven was by Peter on the Day of Pentecost. His message to the assembled crowd\nincluded these words in Acts 2:31-32: Seeing what\nwas to come, he spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah, that He was not\nabandoned to the realm of the dead, nor did His body see decay. 32 <\/sup><\/strong>God has raised this Jesus to life, and we\nare all witnesses of it<\/strong>. <\/em>Peter is quoting Psalm 16, a Psalm of David from a thousand\nyears earlier, prophesying that the Messiah would die, but that death was not\nthe final word because He would experience a physical bodily<\/strong> resurrection. The person in question was not named\nin the Psalm, but Peter says we can now tell you who it is David spoke about.\nWe witnessed the bodily resurrection of Jesus in this city. This fact was\nfoundational to the launch of the Christian Church. If Jesus had not risen from\nthe dead then the Christian Church would never have started and by definition\nwould not exist today. However, because He was raised from the dead this extraordinary\ngood news spread across the known world until it eventually reached you and me.\nThe death and resurrection is central to the gospel personally for us as\nindividuals and for the Christian Church as a whole.   <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \nA person who professes their faith in Jesus does so confessing their\nbelief in these events. One of the earliest forms of Christian confession is\ncited in Romans 10:9-10:  <\/sup><\/strong>if you\ndeclare with your mouth, \u2018Jesus is Lord,\u2019 and believe<\/strong> in your heart that God raised H<\/strong><\/em>im from the\ndead, you will be saved<\/em><\/strong>. 10 <\/sup><\/strong>For it is with your heart\nthat you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess\nyour faith and are saved.<\/em>\nThe new believer wants to make a public confession of their faith. The way we\ndo that is through baptism. How does Paul describe what happens in Romans\n6:3-5:   Or don\u2019t you know that all of us who were baptised into Christ\nJesus were baptised into His death<\/strong>? 4 <\/sup><\/strong>We\nwere therefore buried with Him through\nbaptism into death<\/strong> in order that, just\nas Christ was raised from the dead<\/strong> through the glory of the Father, we too\nmay live a new life.5 <\/sup><\/strong>For if we have been united with\nHim in a death like His, we will certainly also be united with Him in a resurrection like His<\/strong>.<\/em> It cannot be clearer what we are declaring when we join\nthe Christian Church. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 (ii) Your faith is useless Think about\nit says Paul, what are the implications for us as Christians of going along\nwith the majority view of Greek philosophers? What guarantees are there for us\nas believers if God hasn\u2019t done or cannot do what was proclaimed concerning\nJesus? What does that do to our hopes for the future of a person who has died?\nAt a funeral for a committed Christian I usually state these words as part of\nthe act of committal before the burial or cremation of their earthly remains: \u201cSeeing\nthat the earthly life of our brother \/ sister <\/em>[name] has come to an end, we commit his\/ her body to be buried \/ cremated;\nearth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life<\/strong>,\nthrough our Lord Jesus Christ, who died, was buried, and was raised again for\nus. To Him be the glory, for ever and ever.\u201d <\/em>This belief in what happened to\nJesus is foundational for what happens for us in the future<\/strong>.If the dead\ncannot be raised to life again in principle, then we cannot be telling the\ntruth about what happened to Jesus and by implication cannot express this hope\nfor ourselves in the future either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(c) No resurrection No past! <\/strong>(I Corinthians 15;16-19) 16 <\/sup><\/em><\/strong>For if the dead are not raised, then\nChrist has not been raised either. 17 <\/sup><\/strong>And if Christ\nhas not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. 18 <\/sup><\/strong>Then\nthose also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. 19 <\/sup><\/strong>If\nonly for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be\npitied.<\/em> If there was no resurrection from the dead and Jesus had not risen from\nthe dead, then the Christian faith is emptied of its power to change anyone\u2019s\nlives. What would this mean for us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(i) We are still sinners \u2026 you are still in your sins <\/em>(I Corinthians 15:17b) We are saved\nthrough Jesus\u2019 substitutionary death in our place on the cross. However, had\nGod not raised Him from the dead we could never have been certain that this was\nthe case. We would have had to assume rightly or wrongly that we could not be\ncertain God had forgiven us and wiped out our past record of wrong thoughts,\nwords and actions. A message <\/em>proclaimed of hopes and aspirations but\nno certainty would be far from the gospel as we know it. Many people hear\nschemes of \u2018good news\u2019 that turn out to be bogus \u2013 how many pyramid schemes of\nfinancial scams have there been in a number of countries in the world in recent\nyears? Human greed leads to their success, because participants do not want to\naccept it is too good to be true and the idea that \u2018no-one\u2019 loses is nonsense. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(ii) Dead Christians are lost \u2018in sure and certain hope of the\nresurrection to eternal life\u2019 \u2013<\/em>these\nwords are only comforting if they are true. If they are false then they are\njust hot air coming out of someone\u2019s mouth. One of the greatest assurances and\nblessings we have as Christians is in knowing that believers who have died\nbefore us are already with Jesus; that we will meet them again. What we believe\nabout Jesus\u2019 resurrection affects our future too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(iii) Our spiritual investments are\nuseless (I Corinthians 15:19) If only for this life we have hope in\nChrist, we are of all people most to be pitied. <\/em>Why does this\nmatter?  In many countries in the world\npeople face discrimination or physical violence, imprisonment or even martyrdom\nfor following Jesus. In some cultural settings people risk losing their family\nties when they become Christians; it really does matter what we invest our\nlives in. It has to be true in order to be worth it.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. It is an incontestable\nreality <\/strong>(I Corinthians 15;20)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

20 <\/sup><\/em><\/strong>But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the first-fruits of\nthose who have fallen asleep. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The case Paul has made to these people\nin Corinth is clear and convincing. The Greek philosophers are wrong in their conviction\nthat the body is intrinsically something we want to get rid of at the earliest\nopportunity. God created us as whole persons created in His image. We are a\nwhole person, body soul and spirit. Remember Paul\u2019s words in I Thessalonians\n5:23b: May God Himself, the God\nof peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body<\/strong> be kept blameless at the\ncoming of our Lord Jesus Christ<\/em>.  What does\nPaul mean here by this reference to first-fruits? <\/em>Remember in I\nCorinthians 5:7 he referred to Jesus death in this way: For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been\nsacrificed<\/em>. The death of Jesus took place at the time of the\nJewish Passover Festival in Jerusalem and His substitutionary death took the\nplace of the sacrificial lambs killed for that festival. We note that this\nletter to the Church at Corinth was written before the Jewish Festival of\nPentecost that year (I Corinthians 16:7b-8: I hope to spend some time with you, if the\nLord permits. 8 <\/sup><\/strong>But I will stay on at Ephesus until\nPentecost.<\/em>) The Jewish Festival of First-fruits of the harvest of crops came\nsoon after Passover and seven weeks before Pentecost (See Leviticus 23 for the\nlist of all the Jewish festivals). The coming of the Holy Spirit at the\nFestival of Pentecost launched the ingathering of the spiritual fruit that\nfollowed Jesus\u2019 death in our place and will continue until He comes again as\nKing of Kings and Lords. Death now has no fear for Christians because Jesus\nChrist had conquered it. His death and bodily resurrection, prophesied in the\nOld Testament and witnessed in the New confirms God\u2019s intention for us as well.\nLet us praise Him and celebrate the wonderful news \u2013 Christ has died \u2013 Christ\nhas risen- Christ is coming again- Hallelujah Amen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Introduction Does it really matter whether death is the end or not?   It is clear from this letter that some of Paul\u2019s readers and hearers in Corinth believed that it didn\u2019t really matter. They were viewing a belief in a future physical bodily resurrection as a hangover from Paul\u2019s Jewish background.  The standard Greek view … Continue reading I Corinthians 15:1-20 The importance of the resurrection of Jesus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-929","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broughtybaptist.org\/wpsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broughtybaptist.org\/wpsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broughtybaptist.org\/wpsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broughtybaptist.org\/wpsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broughtybaptist.org\/wpsite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/broughtybaptist.org\/wpsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"https:\/\/broughtybaptist.org\/wpsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/929\/revisions\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broughtybaptist.org\/wpsite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}