{"id":1050,"date":"2011-07-16T08:53:30","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T08:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2011-07-16T08:53:30","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T08:53:30","slug":"all-true-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1050","title":{"rendered":"All true religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>All true religion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jesus is . . .<br \/>\nour sun, and without Him all is darkness;<br \/>\nour life, and without Him all is death;<br \/>\nthe beginner and finisher of our faith;<br \/>\nthe substance of our hope;<br \/>\nthe object of our love.<\/p>\n<p>It is the Spirit who quickens us . . .<br \/>\nto feel our need of Christ;<br \/>\nto seek all our supplies in Him and from Him;<br \/>\nto believe in Him unto everlasting life,<br \/>\nand thus live a life of faith upon Him.<\/p>\n<p>By His . . .<br \/>\nsecret teachings,<br \/>\ninward touches,<br \/>\ngracious smiles,<br \/>\nsoft whispers,<br \/>\nsweet promises,<br \/>\nmanifestations of Christ\u2019s glorious Person and work,<br \/>\nChrist\u2019s agonizing sufferings and dying love,<br \/>\nthe Holy Spirit draws the heart up to Christ.<\/p>\n<p>He thus wins our affections, and setting Christ<br \/>\nbefore our eyes as \u201cthe chief among ten thousand<br \/>\nand the altogether lovely One,\u201d draws out that love<br \/>\nand affection towards Jesus which puts the world<br \/>\nunder our feet.<\/p>\n<p>J.C. Philpot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All true religion Jesus is . . . our sun, and without Him all is darkness; our life, and without Him all is death; the beginner and finisher of our faith; the substance of our hope; the object of our love. It is the Spirit who quickens us . . . to feel our need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,68,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-j-c-philpot","category-christ-his-person-and-excellencies","category-false-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","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=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}