{"id":681,"date":"2024-06-10T15:52:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T05:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newhopechurch.org.au\/v2\/?p=681"},"modified":"2024-06-10T15:52:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T05:52:55","slug":"sovereign-election-part-ii-romans-91-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhopechurch.org.au\/?p=681","title":{"rendered":"Sovereign Election Part II @Romans 9:1-13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WpU0uBAofT0?si=X5BdXAUASWIhMBJM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n9 I speak the truth in Christ\u2014I am not lying, my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit\u2014 2 I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people, those of my own race, 4 the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises. 5 Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah, who is God over all, forever praised![a] Amen.<\/p>\n<p>God\u2019s Sovereign Choice<br \/>\n6 It is not as though God\u2019s word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. 7 Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham\u2019s children. On the contrary, \u201cIt is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.\u201d[b] 8 In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God\u2019s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham\u2019s offspring. 9 For this was how the promise was stated: \u201cAt the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.\u201d[c]<\/p>\n<p>10 Not only that, but Rebekah\u2019s children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac. 11 Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad\u2014in order that God\u2019s purpose in election might stand: 12 not by works but by him who calls\u2014she was told, \u201cThe older will serve the younger.\u201d[d] 13 Just as it is written: \u201cJacob I loved, but Esau I hated.\u201d[e]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9 I speak the truth in Christ\u2014I am not lying, my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit\u2014 2 I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people, those of my own race, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","category-feature","category-news","category-resource"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhopechurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhopechurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhopechurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhopechurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhopechurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newhopechurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683,"href":"https:\/\/newhopechurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhopechurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhopechurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhopechurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhopechurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}