{"id":5097,"date":"2019-09-30T03:47:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/gods-credit-card\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:47:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:47:11","slug":"gods-credit-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/gods-credit-card\/","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s Credit Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon in Abraham series, #3.                     Genesis 15:1-6<\/p>\n<p>                             GOD&#8217;S CREDIT CARD<br \/>\n                             =================<\/p>\n<p>     I. How&#8217;s your credit?<\/p>\n<p>    II. God appears to Abram again.<br \/>\n         A. A new vision (more verbal than visual).<br \/>\n         B. Abram&#8217;s complaint.<br \/>\n         C. God&#8217;s reaffirmation.<\/p>\n<p>   III. Abram&#8217;s shows his faith.<br \/>\n         A. He believed the Lord.<br \/>\n         B. God credited it to him.<br \/>\n         C. As righteousness.<\/p>\n<p>    IV. The Apostle Paul and Abraham.<br \/>\n         A. Issue &#8211; must Gentiles become Jews first, then Christians?<br \/>\n         B. Paul points to Abraham.            Romans 4:1-5; Galatians 3:5-8<br \/>\n         C. Fifteen centuries after Paul, Luther inherited his insight.<\/p>\n<p>     V. Correction by James.<br \/>\n         A. Issue &#8211; is it just a matter of saying you believe?<br \/>\n         B. A different application from Abraham.<\/p>\n<p>    VI. A pastor&#8217;s quandary.<br \/>\n         A. I believe salvation is God&#8217;s action.<br \/>\n         B. But believing is more than uttering some words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon in Abraham series, #3. Genesis 15:1-6 GOD&#8217;S CREDIT CARD ================= I. How&#8217;s your credit? II. God appears to Abram again. A. A new vision (more verbal than visual). B. Abram&#8217;s complaint. C. God&#8217;s reaffirmation. III. Abram&#8217;s shows his faith. A. He believed the Lord. B. God credited it to him. C. As righteousness. IV. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4500,1277,430],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}