{"id":6601,"date":"2021-05-01T10:47:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T10:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=6601"},"modified":"2023-05-17T07:08:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T07:08:09","slug":"worship-service-sunday-morning-2-may-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2021\/05\/worship-service-sunday-morning-2-may-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"The Benefits Of Long Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the points covered in this sermon:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Reviewing the main structure of Genesis 5:1-6:8<br \/>\n\u2022 Reviewing the main structure of Genesis 5:3-32<br \/>\n\u2022 Showing the main structure of Genesis 5:3-20<br \/>\n\u2022 Showing how it was possible for the early patriarchs to live so long (an average of 900 years)<br \/>\n\u2022 Highlighting three main reasons God extended the lifespan of the early patriarchs<br \/>\n\u2022 First, it was God\u2019s design to quickly populate the earth<br \/>\n\u2022 Second, it was God\u2019s design to endure with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction<br \/>\n\u2022 Distinguishing between God\u2019s purpose for the elect, and His purpose for the non-elect<br \/>\n\u2022 Third, it was God\u2019s design to bless society with gospel witnesses<br \/>\n\u2022 Explaining how a gospel witness is one of the rich blessings God bestows upon individuals, families, communities and nations<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6601\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"box-shadow:none;-webkit-box-shadow:none;-moz-box-shadow:none;\"><div class=\"bookmark-off\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the points covered in this sermon: \u2022 Reviewing the main structure of Genesis 5:1-6:8 \u2022 Reviewing the main structure of Genesis 5:3-32 \u2022 Showing the main structure of Genesis 5:3-20 \u2022 Showing how it was possible for the early patriarchs to live so long (an average of 900 years) \u2022 Highlighting three main reasons God extended the lifespan of the early patriarchs \u2022 First, it was God\u2019s design to quickly populate the earth \u2022 Second, it was God\u2019s design to endure with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction \u2022 Distinguishing between God\u2019s purpose for the elect, and His purpose for the non-elect \u2022 Third, it was God\u2019s design to bless society with gospel witnesses \u2022 Explaining how a gospel witness is one of the rich blessings God bestows upon individuals, families, communities and nations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[1205,1218,1263,1234],"class_list":["post-6601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jared-smiths-sermons","tag-biblical-covenants","tag-divine-sovereignty","tag-genesis-teachings","tag-gospel-framework","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6601"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15719,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601\/revisions\/15719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}