{"id":983,"date":"2016-08-15T01:58:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T01:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/?p=983"},"modified":"2016-08-24T03:02:04","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T03:02:04","slug":"sermon-august-14-2016-the-importance-of-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/sermon-august-14-2016-the-importance-of-adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"Sermon &#8211; August 14, 2016: &#8220;The Importance of Adoption&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-983-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/sermons\/aug14-16.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/sermons\/aug14-16.mp3\">http:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/sermons\/aug14-16.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Genesis 46-48<\/p>\n<p>Things to notice<br \/>\n\u2022 Jacob recounts the promise of God spoken to him at Luz. \u2013 vv. 3-4<br \/>\n\u2022 Jacob made Manasseh and Ephraim full members of the family with all the benefits. \u2013 vv. 5-6<br \/>\n\u2022 Jacob may be doing this because he believes Rachel would have given him more children had she survived. \u2013vv. 13-21<\/p>\n<p>Our adoption<br \/>\n\u2022 Our place in God&#8217;s family is the result of promises spoken long ago. &#8211; Genesis 22:18; Ephesians 1:3-6<br \/>\n\u2022 Our place in God&#8217;s family is made possible through Jesus. &#8211; Hebrews 2:11-18; Galatians 4:1-7<br \/>\n\u2022 Our status in God&#8217;s family is as full fledged members; fellow heirs with Jesus. &#8211; Romans 8:12-17<br \/>\n\u2022 Are Christians Ephraim and Jews Manasseh? &#8211; Heed the warning &#8211; Romans 11:11-24<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean?<br \/>\n\u2022 We can be sure of our salvation.<br \/>\n\u2022 We must behave has children of God for that is what we are.<br \/>\n\u2022 If you are considering earthly adoption it must be done for the full benefit of the child and not yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genesis 46-48 Things to notice \u2022 Jacob recounts the promise of God spoken to him at Luz. \u2013 vv. 3-4 \u2022 Jacob made Manasseh and Ephraim full members of the family with all the benefits. \u2013 vv. 5-6 \u2022 Jacob<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/sermon-august-14-2016-the-importance-of-adoption\/\"><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,21,43,10],"tags":[48,57,24,44,13],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible-studies","category-members","category-sermon","category-worship","tag-bible-studies","tag-bible-study","tag-members","tag-sermon","tag-worship"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/genesisbanner.jpg?fit=1150%2C400&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}