{"id":474,"date":"2014-06-25T18:28:28","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T17:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/?p=474"},"modified":"2014-07-09T16:47:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T15:47:38","slug":"the-patriarchs-abraham-covenant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/?p=474","title":{"rendered":"The Patriarchs: Abraham &#8211; Covenant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are continuing a series on the Patriarchs.<\/p>\n<p>This week we consider the Abramic Covenant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Covenant<\/strong><br \/>\nGenesis 14:1 &#8211; 15:21<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We should desire blessing from God more than anyone else. Abraham refuses the spoils of war without imposing his conviction on anyone else and as a result God moves the curtain aside on His covenantal plans. We can crave honour, recognition and reward\u00a0from the world but God&#8217;s honour and reward is far greater and God honours those who honour Him.<\/li>\n<li>We should hold out on God blessing us. Many people will\u00a0relate that with hindsight God was blessing them all along. Even trials are a blessing (Joni Earkson).<\/li>\n<li>We should recognise that ultimately God&#8217;s blessing is dependant on Him and not us. God blesses in spite of our failures\u00a0not because of our perfections.\u00a0Yes we must be ruthless with our flesh but when we fail and enjoy forgiveness we enter straight back into the sphere of God&#8217;s blessing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>God is a gracious God. God&#8217;s calling was with a view to bless Abraham right from the start. Yes God will get glory to His Name. But along the way he is blessing, giving, loving and disposing of unconditional grace left, right and centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are continuing a series on the Patriarchs. This week we consider the Abramic Covenant. Covenant Genesis 14:1 &#8211; 15:21 We should desire blessing from God more than anyone else. Abraham refuses the spoils of war without imposing his conviction on anyone else and as a result God moves the curtain aside on His covenantal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible-class"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}