{"id":3415,"date":"2022-07-31T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/?p=3415"},"modified":"2022-09-14T16:46:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T15:46:59","slug":"gods-bias-towards-the-weak-and-the-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/gods-bias-towards-the-weak-and-the-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"Micah \u2014 God&#8217;s Bias Towards the Weak and the Poor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the Minor Prophets we see God express a surprising bias, and it\u2019s not toward the strong, the winners at life, those at the top of the tree. It&#8217;s towards the clingers-on, the falling, the weak, the vulnerable, to those on the very margins of society.<!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><style>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/style><\/p><div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VPwcV0_bVL4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5>Audio only:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1316443765&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/kings-church\" title=\"Kings Church\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kings Church<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/kings-church\/gods-bias-towards-the-weak-and-the-poor\" title=\"God's Bias Towards the Weak and the Poor\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">God&#8217;s Bias Towards the Weak and the Poor<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Minor Prophets we see God express a surprising bias, and it\u2019s not toward the strong, the winners at life, those at the top of the tree. It&#8217;s towards the clingers-on, the falling, the weak, the vulnerable, to those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/gods-bias-towards-the-weak-and-the-poor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Micah \u2014 God&#8217;s Bias Towards the Weak and the Poor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[311],"tags":[299,169,95,106,53,318],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3415"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3436,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions\/3436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}