{"id":13659,"date":"2025-10-12T09:30:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T13:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/?post_type=message&#038;p=13659"},"modified":"2025-10-24T11:13:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T15:13:50","slug":"a-greater-promise","status":"publish","type":"message","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/message\/a-greater-promise","title":{"rendered":"A Greater Promise"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since we were children, we have made a big deal about promises. Who hasn\u2019t heard a child crying to a parent, \u201cBut you promised?\u201d We all make promises and try to keep them. We promise to take our son fishing. We sign a promissory note at the bank to buy a car or obtain a mortgage. We promise \u201ctill death do us part.\u201d We make a lot of promises and try to keep them, but a promise is only as good as our integrity and our ability to keep it. <\/p>\n<p>But every human promise has a shelf life. Have you ever had someone break a promise to you? Maybe it was small \u2014 a promise to call, to help, to show up. Or maybe it was big \u2014 a promise that left a scar. We live in a world full of broken promises, so it\u2019s easy to doubt anyone who says, \u201cTrust me.\u201d Yet, that\u2019s exactly what God calls us to do in Christ Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>In the book of Hebrews, the author taught believers that the promises of God, in which the patriarchs believed, pointed to greater promises in Christ Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13660,"template":"","tags":[2019],"series":[2938],"scripture-book":[1325],"scripture-chapter":[1344],"speaker":[2007],"class_list":["post-13659","message","type-message","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-exposition","series-jesus-is-greater-an-exposition-of-hebrews","scripture-book-hebrews","scripture-chapter-1344","speaker-gary-combs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/13659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/message"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/13659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13661,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/13659\/revisions\/13661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13659"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=13659"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=13659"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=13659"},{"taxonomy":"speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker?post=13659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}