{"id":2656,"date":"2013-10-26T11:07:39","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T11:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2656"},"modified":"2013-10-26T11:07:39","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T11:07:39","slug":"not-an-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2656","title":{"rendered":"Not an Offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Not an Offer <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anytime a preacher presents the grace of God as an offer on God\u2019s  part to anybody who is willing to receive it, he has not preached grace  as the Bible does. The Bible does not say, \u201cBut God, who is rich in  mercy for His great love where with He loved us, even when we were dead  in sins has offered us His grace\u201d\u2026..it says God hath \u201cquickened us  together with Christ, by grace are ye saved.\u201d Grace is not offered;  grace is given! And when grace is given, it always saves and is always  received! We do not have a choice as to whether or not we will accept  God\u2019s offer of grace. Grace saves! Grace is not something we use to aid  in our salvation \u2013 Grace saves us!<\/p>\n<p>Todd Nibert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not an Offer Anytime a preacher presents the grace of God as an offer on God\u2019s part to anybody who is willing to receive it, he has not preached grace as the Bible does. The Bible does not say, \u201cBut God, who is rich in mercy for His great love where with He loved us, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-todd-nibert","category-false-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656","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=2656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2658,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions\/2658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}