{"id":104314,"date":"2020-11-19T03:53:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T09:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/?p=104314"},"modified":"2020-11-14T07:33:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T13:33:56","slug":"16-y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/19\/16-y\/","title":{"rendered":"16.y.  &#8220;Who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">John 10:16<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>So there will be one flock, one shepherd. For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">There was again a division among the Jews because of these words. Many of them said, \u201cHe has a demon, and is insane; why listen to him?\u201d Others said, \u201cThese are not the words of one who is oppressed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:23.53.10\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Isaiah 53:10-12<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.\u00a0\u00a0Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.\u00a0\u00a0Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:50.2.6\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Philippians 2:6-8<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,\u00a0\u00a0but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.\u00a0\u00a0And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:56.2.14\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Titus 2:14<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">It is hard to imagine the grace, mercy, and love Jesus Christ willingly poured out on the world.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The King of kings, Lord of Lords, Son of God, chose obedience to God the Father and willingly and with joy, went to the cross to bear our sins.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Jesus had full authority to choose obedience to God\u2019s will.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He chose to give us life through His death and resurrection.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It is good for us to remember the great price that was paid by the King of kings, Lord of Lords, Son of God.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He did this for each individual person, yes YOU.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u00a0\u201cFor God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. \u00a0But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">Though the offer\/gift of grace, mercy, love, forgiveness, redemption, and salvation is offered to everyone it is not accepted, received, or believed by everyone.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Many reject and deny this gift.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Condemnation and eternal punishment await everyone who rejects and denies the gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ. Today is the day of salvation.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Trust in, cling to, and rely on Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 10:16\u00a0 So there will be one flock, one shepherd. For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/19\/16-y\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;16.y.  &#8220;Who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3375,528,4371,14580,323,6663,4196,521,5299,14579,5225,14581,5366,13634,448,1294,13794,5368,10276,513,14577,4258,5111,283,14575,2156,16,4996,520,14578,4411,997,14582,1611,5630,2849,334,3672,3501,203,1161,9,2391,120,226,7365,289,14576,3028,3155],"class_list":["post-104314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-anguish","tag-authority","tag-bear","tag-bore","tag-cross","tag-crush-him","tag-days","tag-death","tag-demon","tag-divide","tag-division","tag-emptied","tag-equality","tag-eyes-of-the-blind","tag-father","tag-flock","tag-grasped","tag-human-form","tag-humbled-himself","tag-iniquities","tag-insane","tag-intercession","tag-jews","tag-knowledge","tag-lay-down-my-life","tag-likeness","tag-listen","tag-loves","tag-obedient","tag-offering-for-guild","tag-offspring","tag-oppressed","tag-people-zealous-for-good-works","tag-poured-out","tag-prolong","tag-prosper","tag-purify","tag-received","tag-redeem","tag-righteous","tag-satisfied","tag-servant","tag-shepherd","tag-sin","tag-soul","tag-spoil","tag-strong","tag-take-it-up","tag-transgressors","tag-will-of-the-lord"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104314"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104497,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104314\/revisions\/104497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}