{"id":2291,"date":"2012-10-06T07:30:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T07:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2291"},"modified":"2012-10-06T07:30:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T07:30:28","slug":"the-free-sovereign-grace-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2291","title":{"rendered":"The free, sovereign grace of God!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The free, sovereign grace of God!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Octavius Winslow, \u201cChrist, Our Righteousness\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose He <strong>predestined<\/strong>, He also <strong>called<\/strong>;<br \/>\nand those He called, He also <strong>justified<\/strong>;<br \/>\nand those He justified, He also <strong>glorified<\/strong>.\u201d<br \/>\nRomans 8:30<\/p>\n<p>The justified sinner stands the closest to God,<br \/>\nof any created being in the universe. Nearer<br \/>\nto the throne of the Eternal, he cannot stand.<\/p>\n<p>What marvelous love!<\/p>\n<p>Who will dare assert that salvation is not,<br \/>\nfrom first to last\u2014of free, sovereign grace!<\/p>\n<p>Let your eye pierce the veil which falls between<br \/>\nearth and heaven. Behold that shining, worshiping<br \/>\nbeing, standing so near to the throne of glory,<br \/>\nbathed in the overpowering effulgence of its rays!<\/p>\n<p><em>Who is he?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He was once a sinner upon earth, the vilest<br \/>\nof his race, the dishonored of his generation,<br \/>\nforsaken by man\u2014and abhorred of God.<\/p>\n<p>But Jesus met him, and divine love drew him, and<br \/>\nsovereign grace rescued, pardoned, and saved him!<br \/>\nAnd now washed from all his guilt by the blood,<br \/>\nfreed from all condemnation by the righteousness<br \/>\nof Christ\u2014he stands before the throne \u201cblameless,\u201d<br \/>\na \u201cking and a priest unto God.\u201d Such is the great<br \/>\nlove of Jesus! And all this <strong>grace<\/strong>, and all this<br \/>\n<strong>glory<\/strong>, and all this <strong>bliss<\/strong>\u2014flows from <strong>the free,<br \/>\nsovereign grace of God!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The free, sovereign grace of God! (Octavius Winslow, \u201cChrist, Our Righteousness\u201d) \u201cThose He predestined, He also called; and those He called, He also justified; and those He justified, He also glorified.\u201d Romans 8:30 The justified sinner stands the closest to God, of any created being in the universe. Nearer to the throne of the Eternal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-octavius-winslow","category-grace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291","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=2291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2292,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions\/2292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}