{"id":3209,"date":"2013-11-19T07:30:48","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T11:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=3209"},"modified":"2013-11-19T07:30:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T11:30:48","slug":"within-our-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3209","title":{"rendered":"Within our power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Acts 28:24-27<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And some were persuaded by the things which were spoken, and some disbelieved&#8230;.The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah the prophet..&#8221;Go to this people and say: &#8216;Hearing you will hear, and shall not understand, and seeing you will see, and not perceive&#8230;.And their eyes they have closed.'&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>How it all works is a mystery beyond our comprehension. The Holy Spirit would have us all to believe, otherwise Paul&#8217;s reference to Isaiah&#8217;s prophecy would not make sense. Yet not all do.<\/p>\n<p>It is not within our power to believe, apart from God&#8217;s grace. But it is within our power to disbelieve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acts 28:24-27 And some were persuaded by the things which were spoken, and some disbelieved&#8230;.The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah the prophet..&#8221;Go to this people and say: &#8216;Hearing you will hear, and shall not understand, and seeing you will see, and not perceive&#8230;.And their eyes they have closed.&#8217;&#8221; How it all works is a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3209\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Within our power&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}