{"id":1272,"date":"2011-09-03T05:35:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T05:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2011-09-03T05:35:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T05:35:53","slug":"personal-spiritual-experimental-knowledge-of-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1272","title":{"rendered":"Personal, spiritual, experimental knowledge of Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Personal, spiritual, experimental\u00a0knowledge of Jesus<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nIt is our dim, scanty, and imperfect knowledge of<br \/>\nthe Lord Jesus Christ in His eternal love\u2014and in<br \/>\nHis grace and glory\u2014which leaves us so often cold,<br \/>\nlifeless, and dead in our affections towards Him.<\/p>\n<p>If there were more blessed revelations to our soul<br \/>\nof the Person and work, grace and glory, beauty and<br \/>\nblessedness of the Lord Jesus Christ\u2014it is impossible<br \/>\nbut that we would more and more warmly and tenderly<br \/>\nfall in love with Him\u2014for He is the most glorious object<br \/>\nthat the eyes of faith can see!<\/p>\n<p>He fills heaven with the resplendent beams of His<br \/>\nglorious majesty\u2014and has ravished the hearts of<br \/>\nthousands of His dear family upon earth by the<br \/>\nmanifestations of His bleeding, dying love. Just in<br \/>\nproportion to our\u00a0<strong>personal, spiritual, experimental<br \/>\nknowledge of Him<\/strong>, will be our love to Him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal, spiritual, experimental\u00a0knowledge of Jesus It is our dim, scanty, and imperfect knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ in His eternal love\u2014and in His grace and glory\u2014which leaves us so often cold, lifeless, and dead in our affections towards Him. If there were more blessed revelations to our soul of the Person and work, grace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,61,68,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-j-c-philpot","category-believers-assurance","category-christ-his-person-and-excellencies","category-taught-of-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","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=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}