{"id":1362,"date":"2011-10-15T10:48:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T10:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2011-10-15T10:48:26","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T10:48:26","slug":"the-sacrifice-of-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1362","title":{"rendered":"The sacrifice of Himself!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The sacrifice of<\/strong> <strong>Himself!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Ruth Bryan, \u201cThe Marvelous Riches of Savoring Christ!\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut now He has appeared one time, at the end of the ages, to remove sin by\u00a0<strong>the sacrifice of Himself!<\/strong>\u201d\u00a0Hebrews 9:26<\/p>\n<p>These rich words still amaze me.<\/p>\n<p>That word \u201c<strong>sin<\/strong>\u201d feels weighty to a sensible sinner.<\/p>\n<p>But oh! that word \u201c<strong>Himself!<\/strong>\u201d seems a million times more weighty!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHimself!\u201d the mighty God, the precious Man Christ Jesus!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHimself!\u201d by whom all things were created, and for whom they exist!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHimself!\u201d whose smile is heaven, whose frown is hell!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHimself!\u201d whom all angels worship, and all devils obey!<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHimself!\u201d the sacrifice!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Another such sacrifice could not be found! Sins as deep as hell and as high as heaven cannot overmatch it \u2014 for it is infinite! Sins of scarlet and crimson dye cannot resist its power \u2014 for it makes them whiter than snow!<\/p>\n<p>See as much as you can of the<em> vileness of self<\/em>, and the\u00a0<em>demerit of sin<\/em> \u2014 yet \u201cHimself\u201d a bleeding sacrifice, exceeds it all! Here is the sweet-smelling savor, both to the Lawgiver and the lawbreaker. The Lawgiver is honored \u2014 the lawbreaker is saved!<\/p>\n<p>See how He stands most lovingly, as with open arms, saying to every laboring, weary, heavy-laden sinner, \u201cCome! Come unto Me, and I will give you rest! I still receive sinners, to the uttermost I save them, and never am weary of healing their backslidings, forgiving all their iniquities, and multiplying pardons \u2014 as they multiply transgressions against Me. I blot all out with My blood, and love them freely and forever!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sinner, will not this suffice? It will, if the Spirit applies it \u2014 and opens in a little measure,<em>Himself and His<\/em> <em>sacrifice<\/em> \u2014 in contrast to yourself and your sins. It will take eternity to know it fully; but that your heart may find rest and refreshing in it now, is my affectionate prayer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut now He has appeared one time, at the end of the ages, to remove sin by\u00a0<strong>the sacrifice of Himself!<\/strong>\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sacrifice of Himself! (Ruth Bryan, \u201cThe Marvelous Riches of Savoring Christ!\u201d) \u201cBut now He has appeared one time, at the end of the ages, to remove sin by\u00a0the sacrifice of Himself!\u201d\u00a0Hebrews 9:26 These rich words still amaze me. That word \u201csin\u201d feels weighty to a sensible sinner. But oh! that word \u201cHimself!\u201d seems a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-successful-saviour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362","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=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1363,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}