{"id":3514,"date":"2015-11-28T07:15:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T07:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3514"},"modified":"2015-11-28T07:15:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T07:15:14","slug":"the-children-of-the-promise-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3514","title":{"rendered":"The Children of the promise."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Children of the promise.
\nRomans 9:4<\/a> Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the
\nglory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of
\nGod, and the promises; 5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as
\nconcerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever.
\nAmen. 6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they
\nare not all Israel, which are of Israel: 7 Neither, because they are the
\nseed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be
\ncalled. 8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are
\nnot the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for
\nthe seed.<\/p>\n

The message of this passage of scripture is simple, clear and
\nunmistakable. The earthly nation of Israel are not God\u2019s people. That is
\nplainly stated in verses 7 and 8. God\u2019s people are called here the seed
\nand the children of promise and being a Jew does not make you one of
\nthose. Only those who are chosen in Christ (the Seed) from before the
\nfoundation of the world are God\u2019s people.\u00a0Galatians 3:16<\/a> Now to Abraham
\nand his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of
\nmany; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.\u00a0Galatians 3:29<\/a>
\nAnd if ye be Christ\u2018s, then are ye Abraham\u2019s seed, and heirs according
\nto the promise.<\/p>\n

All of the promises of blessing in Christ are made to the heirs of the
\npromise, not earthly Israel, but spiritual Israel. Nothing could be more
\nplainly revealed in the word of God. Many consider the earthly nation of
\nIsrael to have some kind of divine protection and favor from God. Let me
\nbe clear about this: If you reject the Lord Jesus Christ being a Jew
\nwill not keep you from suffering God\u2019s eternal wrath in Hell, and if you
\nreceive Him, believe on Him, being a Gentile will in no way hinder you
\nfrom enjoying all spiritual blessings in Him. The favor of God is in
\nChrist, not in bloodlines or family trees.- Chris Cunningham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Children of the promise. Romans 9:4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; 5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,41,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-chris-cunningham","category-the-eternal-covenant","category-eternal-covenant-promise-of-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3515,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions\/3515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}