{"id":2678,"date":"2013-11-30T11:16:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T11:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2678"},"modified":"2013-11-30T11:16:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T11:16:15","slug":"%e2%80%9che-who-did-not-spare-his-own-son-but-gave-him-up-for-us-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2678","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHe who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>J. C. Philpot\u2019s Daily Portions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all\u2013how  will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?\u201d Romans 8:32<\/p>\n<p>I have thought sometimes of the sweet figure of Solomon, as a type of  Christ, in his royal liberality to the queen of Sheba. We read of him  that he \u201cgave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she  asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty.\u201d So our  Royal Benefactor gives more to the sons of men than is in their heart to  ask for. And what he gives, he gives freely, out of his royal bounty.  As freely as the rain drops from the sky; as freely as the sun casts  forth his glorious beams and ripens the fruits of the field; as freely  as the wind courses over the earth; as freely as the dew drops upon the  morning grass; so free are the gifts of God to his Church and people.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, in giving Christ, God gave everything. The Apostle declares, he \u201chas blessed us with <em>all <\/em>spiritual  blessings in heavenly places in Christ.\u201d We must never look upon  spiritual blessings as broken fragments of the love of God, mere shreds  and patches, scattered crumbs, waifs and strays, like floating pieces of  some shipwrecked vessel; but we must look on the blessings of the  gospel as all stored up in Christ our covenant Head. Whatever is given,  is given out of Christ, in whom it has pleased the Father that all  fullness should dwell; and it is by virtue of union to him, and out of  his fullness, that all these blessings are received.<\/p>\n<p>How can we lift up our thoughts\u2013how raise up our hearts\u2013adequately to  conceive of the gift of God\u2019s only-begotten Son\u2013his eternal Son\u2013the Son  of the Father in truth and love\u2013given out of the bosom of God that he  might become incarnate, suffer, bleed, and die; and by a suffering life  and meritorious death offer a sacrifice acceptable to God, a sacrifice  whereby the sins of God\u2019s people were forever put away?<\/p>\n<p>The grand source of all the admiration and adoration and the eternal  blessedness of the saints, will be the holy enjoyment of the \u2018mystery of  an incarnate God\u2019. The incarnation of the second Person in the glorious  Trinity\u2013the eternal Son of the eternal Father\u2013his taking human nature  into union with his own divine Person\u2013will be the mystery that will  ravish the hearts and fill the lips of God\u2019s saints with an endless  theme of admiration and joy through the countless ages of eternity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J. C. Philpot\u2019s Daily Portions \u201cHe who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all\u2013how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?\u201d Romans 8:32 I have thought sometimes of the sweet figure of Solomon, as a type of Christ, in his royal liberality to 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":[14,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-j-c-philpot","category-believers-assurance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678","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=2678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2680,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678\/revisions\/2680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}