{"id":23403,"date":"2020-08-28T15:51:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T20:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=23403"},"modified":"2020-08-28T16:14:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T21:14:24","slug":"redemption-the-gracious-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=23403","title":{"rendered":"Redemption: The Gracious Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Continued from The Fall: Shattered Mirrors<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The good news is that God is reforging the shards! When he is finished, no trace of the breakage will remain. For God has formed a rescue plan. Not willing to abandon his creation to evil, God has purposed to redeem and restore the world by setting a new people apart for himself.<\/p>\n

Although hints of this plan are given even before the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden (Gen. 3:15), God\u2019s redemptive mission truly began to take shape when he called Abraham.13\u00a0God promised to give Abraham two things: A son (and descendants) through whom the world would be blessed (Gen. 12:1\u20133), and a special land that would belong to his heirs forever (Gen. 17:7\u20138).14\u00a0The promised son was Isaac. The descendants were the children of Israel. The land would be Canaan. God later rescued this people from slavery in Egypt and consecrated them as a special nation (Ex. 1\u201315) over which he himself would reign as sovereign king (Ex. 19:3\u20136; Num. 23:21; Deut. 33:2\u20135).<\/p>\n

Once Canaan was settled, God promised David, the greatest of Israel\u2019s earthly kings, a son who would be forever enthroned over his people (2 Sam. 7). The entire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continued from The Fall: Shattered Mirrors The good news is that God is reforging the shards! When he is finished, no trace of the breakage will remain. For God has formed a rescue plan. Not willing to abandon his creation to evil, God has purposed to redeem and restore the world by setting a new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":23411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[801],"tags":[2903,2904,78,407,96],"class_list":["post-23403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shepherd-press-jay-younts","tag-brian-g-hedges","tag-christ-formed-in-you","tag-gospel","tag-image-of-god","tag-sanctification","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/christ-formed-in-you-1000-25-1.jpg?fit=194%2C300&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23403"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23413,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23403\/revisions\/23413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}