{"id":2406,"date":"2013-02-09T05:26:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T05:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2406"},"modified":"2013-02-09T05:26:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T05:26:40","slug":"never-separated-from-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2406","title":{"rendered":"Never Separated from God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Never Separated from God<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. Believeth thou this?\u201d<br \/>\n(John 11:26).<\/p>\n<p>Yes, LORD, we believe it; we shall never die. Our soul may be  separated from our body, and this is death of a kind; but our soul shall  never be separated from God, which is the true death \u2014 the death which  was threatened to sin \u2014 the death penalty which is the worst that can  happen. We believe this most assuredly, for who shall separate us from  the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our LORD? We are members of the  Body of Christ; will Christ lose parts of His Body? We are married to  Jesus; will He be bereaved and widowed? It is not possible. There is a  life within us which is not capable of being divided from God: yea, and  the Holy Spirit dwells within us, and how then can we die? Jesus,  Himself, is our life, and therefore there is no dying for us, for He  cannot die again. In Him we died unto sin once, and the capital sentence  cannot a second time be executed. Now we live, and live forever. The  reward of righteousness is life everlasting, and we have nothingless  than the righteousness of God, and therefore can claim the very highest  reward.<\/p>\n<p>Living and believing, we believe that we shall live and enjoy.  Wherefore we press forward with full assurance that our life is secure  in our living Head.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Charles Spurgeon  \u201cFaith\u2019s checkbook\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never Separated from God \u201cAnd whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. Believeth thou this?\u201d (John 11:26). Yes, LORD, we believe it; we shall never die. Our soul may be separated from our body, and this is death of a kind; but our soul shall never be separated from God, which is 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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-h-spurgeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406","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=2406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2408,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions\/2408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}