{"id":1052,"date":"2011-07-16T08:56:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T08:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2011-07-16T08:56:13","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T08:56:13","slug":"christ-is-the-substance-of-the-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1052","title":{"rendered":"Christ is the substance of the Gospel."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>T<\/strong><strong>he Golden Key! The Golden Thread! <\/strong>by Octavius Winslow<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Jesus<\/em><\/strong><em> <\/em>is the one great theme both of the Old Testament and the New. The whole Bible is designed to testify of\u00a0<em>Christ<\/em>,\u00a0<em>\u201cThe Scriptures point to Me!\u201d <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/John%205.39\">John 5:39<\/a><br \/>\nIn Christ the\u00a0<em>Messiah<\/em>, in Jesus the\u00a0<em>Savior<\/em>, in the Son of God the\u00a0<em>Redeemer \u2014 <\/em>all the truths of the Bible centre. To Him all the\u00a0<em>types<\/em> and\u00a0<em>shadows<\/em> point! \u00a0Of Him all the\u00a0<em>prophecies<\/em> give witness! \u00a0All the glory of the Scriptures, from Genesis to Revelation \u2014 culminates at the cross of Christ! The Bible would be an inexplicable mystery apart from Christ, who unfolds and explains it all. He is the golden Key which unlocks the divine treasury of Scriptural revelation!<em>Until He is seen<\/em>, the Bible is, in a sense \u2014 a great\u00a0<em>mystery<\/em>. But when He is found, it is a glorious\u00a0<em>revelation<\/em>. Every mystery is opened, every enigma explained, every discrepancy harmonized, and every truth and page, sentence and word, quickened with a life and glowing with a light flowing down from the throne of the Eternal God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christ is the substance of the Gospel.<\/strong><br \/>\nAll its divine\u00a0<em>doctrines<\/em>, all its holy\u00a0<em>precepts<\/em>, all its gracious\u00a0<em>instructions<\/em>, all its precious<em>promises<\/em>, all its glorious\u00a0<em>hopes \u2014 <\/em>meet, centre, and fill up their entire compass in Jesus!<\/p>\n<p>He is the Alpha and the Omega of the Bible, from the first verse in Genesis \u2014 to the last verse in Revelation.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, study the Scriptures of truth with a view of\u00a0<em>learning Christ. <\/em><br \/>\nDo not study the Bible as a mere history. Do not read it as a mere poem. Do not search it as a book of science. It is all that, but infinitely more.\u00a0<em>The Bible is the Book of Jesus! <\/em>It is a Revelation of Christ! Christ is\u00a0<strong>the golden thread <\/strong>which runs through the whole! Blessed Lord Jesus! I will read and study and dig into the Scriptures to find and learn more of You! \u00a0You, Immanuel, are the\u00a0<em>fragrance <\/em>of this divine box of precious ointment. You are the<em> beauteous gem<\/em> sparkling in this divine cabinet.<br \/>\nYou are the\u00a0<em>Tree of life<\/em> planted in the centre of this divine garden.<br \/>\nYou are the\u00a0<em>Ocean <\/em>whose stream quickens and nourishes all who draw water out of this divine well of salvation. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Bible is all about You!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Golden Key! The Golden Thread! by Octavius Winslow Jesus is the one great theme both of the Old Testament and the New. The whole Bible is designed to testify of\u00a0Christ,\u00a0\u201cThe Scriptures point to Me!\u201d John 5:39 In Christ the\u00a0Messiah, in Jesus the\u00a0Savior, in the Son of God the\u00a0Redeemer \u2014 all the truths of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,68,44,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-octavius-winslow","category-christ-his-person-and-excellencies","category-gospel-preaching","category-pictures-and-types"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","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=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1053,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions\/1053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}