{"id":5387,"date":"2018-01-13T23:36:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T03:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=5387"},"modified":"2018-01-13T23:41:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T03:41:09","slug":"the-eternally-consenting-bridegroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=5387","title":{"rendered":"The Eternally Consenting Bridegroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because God, by nature, is the eternally consenting Bridegroom, there are two things he cannot and will not do:<\/p>\n<p>He will not ever <em>make you<\/em> marry his Son, because an irresistible grace would violate your consent.  Your part will always and forever be by consent.<\/p>\n<p>His consent will <em>never end<\/em>, because a violent ultimatum would violate your consent.  Divine love will always and forever be by consent.  Emphasis on <em>forever<\/em>.  &#8220;His mercy endures <em>forever<\/em>&#8221; (Psalm 136).  &#8220;I have loved you with an <em>everlasting<\/em> love; I have drawn you with <em>unfailing<\/em> kindness&#8221; (Jer. 31:3).<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t believe the divine courtship involves wearing you down with his love until you give up.  It&#8217;s simply that he&#8217;ll always love you, with a love that even outlasts and overcomes death (Song of Solomon 8).  The Bible at least hints (Rev. 21-22) that the prodigal Father will wait for you, invite you and keep the doors open for you until you&#8217;re ready to come home.  He&#8217;ll wait for you forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Bradley Jersak, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/more_christlike_god.html\">A More Christlike God<\/a><\/em>, p. 126-127.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because God, by nature, is the eternally consenting Bridegroom, there are two things he cannot and will not do: He will not ever make you marry his Son, because an irresistible grace would violate your consent. Your part will always and forever be by consent. His consent will never end, because a violent ultimatum would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,11,13,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-forgiveness","category-god","category-universalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}