{"id":1006,"date":"2011-07-16T08:16:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T08:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2011-07-16T08:16:12","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T08:16:12","slug":"the-%e2%80%9cilluminated%e2%80%9d-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1006","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cilluminated\u201d Bible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The \u201cilluminated\u201d Bible?<br \/>\n<\/strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em>You may read the Bible continuously and yet never learn<br \/>\nanything by it, unless it is\u00a0<strong>illuminated<\/strong> by the Spirit.<br \/>\nThen the words shine forth like stars. Then the book seems<br \/>\nmade of gold leaf; every single letter glitters like a diamond.<\/p>\n<p>Oh! it is a blessed thing to read an \u201cilluminated Bible\u201d<br \/>\nlit up by the radiance of the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Have you read the Bible, and yet have your eyes been<br \/>\nunenlightened? Go and say, \u201cO Lord, illuminate it; shine upon<br \/>\nit; for I cannot read it to profit, unless You enlighten me.\u201d<br \/>\nBlind men may read the Bible with their fingers,<br \/>\nbut blind souls cannot.<br \/>\nWe need a light to read the Bible by;<br \/>\nthere is no reading it in the dark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cilluminated\u201d Bible? You may read the Bible continuously and yet never learn anything by it, unless it is\u00a0illuminated by the Spirit. Then the words shine forth like stars. Then the book seems made of gold leaf; every single letter glitters like a diamond. Oh! it is a blessed thing to read an \u201cilluminated Bible\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-h-spurgeon","category-the-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions\/1008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}