{"id":421,"date":"2016-08-14T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T00:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=421"},"modified":"2017-06-13T00:03:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T00:03:38","slug":"14-el-yeshurun-the-god-of-his-righteous-people","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/sermons\/14-el-yeshurun-the-god-of-his-righteous-people\/","title":{"rendered":"14 El Yeshurun, The God of His Righteous People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>El Yeshurun<\/em><em>, The God of His Righteous People<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>God\u2019s Ideal Character and Calling of His People<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Deuteronomy 33:1-5, 26-30<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jeshrun \u2013 poetical name for Israel, meaning his \u201cupright, righteous people\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This had the idea of the ideal character God desired His people to be.<\/p>\n<p>The picture is the change of Jacob \u201csupplanter\u201d to Israel \u201cthe upright, pious one\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In this passage, God is pledging to take care of his special \u201cblessed\u201d people<\/p>\n<p>Because of whom God is and what He has done for us, God expects us to be a different people, living upright and righteous<\/p>\n<p>II Corinthians 5:14-21<\/p>\n<p>Vs. 15 Because Christ died for us, we should not live for ourselves<\/p>\n<p>Vs. 17 God made us into new creatures and expects us to act like new creatures<\/p>\n<p>Vs. 18 God has given us the ministry of reconciliation, for us to use our influence with people to bring them to God<\/p>\n<p>Vs. 19 Our tool is the word of reconciliation<\/p>\n<p>Vs. 20 We are ambassadors for Christ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Yeshurun, The God of His Righteous People God\u2019s Ideal Character and Calling of His People Deuteronomy 33:1-5, 26-30 Jeshrun \u2013 poetical name for Israel, meaning his \u201cupright, righteous people\u201d This had the idea of the ideal character God desired His people to be. The picture is the change of Jacob \u201csupplanter\u201d to Israel \u201cthe upright, pious one\u201d In this passage, God is pledging to take care of his special \u201cblessed\u201d people Because of whom God is and what He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","ctc_sermon_topic":[21,73],"ctc_sermon_book":[81],"ctc_sermon_series":[80],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[12],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"class_list":["post-421","ctc_sermon","type-ctc_sermon","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ctc_sermon_topic-names-of-god","ctc_sermon_topic-ten-commandments","ctc_sermon_book-deuteronomy","ctc_sermon_series-names-of-god","ctc_sermon_speaker-scotty-backhaus","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_sermon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/421\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_topic?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_book?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_series?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_speaker?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_tag?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}