{"id":3236,"date":"2013-12-11T07:47:26","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T11:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=3236"},"modified":"2013-12-11T07:55:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T11:55:48","slug":"the-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3236","title":{"rendered":"The two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Romans 11:22<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Behold then the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell, severity, but to you, God&#8217;s kindness, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The kindness and the severity of God. The two are blended together in a way not unlike the Incarnation itself.<\/p>\n<p>The kindness of God&#8212;His gracious choice.\u00a0 The severity of God&#8212;an admonition to those grafted in to continue in His kindness or otherwise to face judgement.<\/p>\n<p>The two are blended together&#8212;God&#8217;s gracious choice and our faithful endurance, God&#8217;s kindness and His severity, the divine and human natures of Christ&#8212;inextricably, wonderfully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romans 11:22 Behold then the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell, severity, but to you, God&#8217;s kindness, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off. The kindness and the severity of God. The two are blended together in a way not unlike the Incarnation itself. The kindness &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3236\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The two&#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\/3236"}],"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=3236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3237,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3236\/revisions\/3237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}