{"id":2615,"date":"2013-08-24T10:07:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T10:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2615"},"modified":"2013-08-24T10:07:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T10:07:08","slug":"the-free-love-and-favor-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2615","title":{"rendered":"The free love and favor of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The free love and favor of God, and His unspeakable goodness<br \/>\nand mercy manifested in Jesus Christ to poor sinners\u2014is the<br \/>\nvery spring and fountain of all evangelical sorrow. Nothing<br \/>\nbreaks the heart of a poor sinner like the sight of God\u2019s free<br \/>\nlove in Christ, the Redeemer. A man cannot seriously look upon<br \/>\nthe firstness, the freeness, the greatness, the unchangeableness,<br \/>\nthe everlastingness, and the matchlessness of God\u2019s free favor<br \/>\nand love in Christ\u2014with a hard heart, or with dry eyes! It is<br \/>\nonly such a love as this, which sets the soul a-mourning and<br \/>\na-lamenting over a crucified Christ.\u2014 Thomas Brooks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The free love and favor of God, and His unspeakable goodness and mercy manifested in Jesus Christ to poor sinners\u2014is the very spring and fountain of all evangelical sorrow. Nothing breaks the heart of a poor sinner like the sight of God\u2019s free love in Christ, the Redeemer. A man cannot seriously look upon 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":[57,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-thomas-brooks","category-grace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615","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=2615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2616,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions\/2616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}