{"id":1341,"date":"2011-10-01T08:26:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T08:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2011-10-01T08:26:25","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T08:26:25","slug":"the-great-fish-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1341","title":{"rendered":"The great fish college!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The great fish college!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The following is from Spurgeon\u2019s sermon,<br \/>\n\u201cThe Perseverance of the Saints\u201d #872.\u00a0Phil.1:6.<\/p>\n<p>Along the road from sin to heaven, from the<br \/>\nfirst leaving of the swine trough of sin, right<br \/>\nup to the joyful entrance into the eternal<br \/>\nbanquet, and the music and dancing of<br \/>\nglorified spirits, every step we take must<br \/>\nbe enabled to take by divine grace!<\/p>\n<p>Every good thing that is in a Christian,<br \/>\nnot merely begins, but progresses and is<br \/>\nconsummated by the fostering grace of<br \/>\nGod, through Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>If my finger were on the golden latch of<br \/>\nparadise, and my foot were on its jasper<br \/>\nthreshold, I should not take the last step<br \/>\nso as to enter heaven, unless the grace<br \/>\nwhich brought me thus far should enable me<br \/>\nfully and fairly to complete my pilgrimage.<\/p>\n<p>Salvation is God\u2019s work, not man\u2019s!<\/p>\n<p>This is the theology which Jonah learned in<br \/>\nthe great fish college, in the university<br \/>\nof the great deep, to which college it<br \/>\nwould be a good thing if many of our pastors<br \/>\nin these days could be sent; for human learning<br \/>\noften puffs up with the idea of human sufficiency.<\/p>\n<p>But he that is schooled and disciplined in the<br \/>\ncollege of a deep experience, and made to know<br \/>\nthe vileness of his own heart, as he peers into<br \/>\nits chambers, will confess that from first to<br \/>\nlast salvation is not of him who wills, nor of<br \/>\nhim who runs, but of God that shows mercy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great fish college! The following is from Spurgeon\u2019s sermon, \u201cThe Perseverance of the Saints\u201d #872.\u00a0Phil.1:6. Along the road from sin to heaven, from the first leaving of the swine trough of sin, right up to the joyful entrance into the eternal banquet, and the music and dancing of glorified spirits, every step we take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-h-spurgeon","category-perseverence","category-pictures-and-types"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","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=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}