{"id":2695,"date":"2013-12-07T10:10:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T10:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2695"},"modified":"2013-12-07T10:10:32","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T10:10:32","slug":"it-is-utterly-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2695","title":{"rendered":"It is utterly impossible!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It is utterly impossible!<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n(Octavius Winslow, 1852)<\/p>\n<p>It has been the distinctive aim, and the sincere<br \/>\ndesire of my ministry \u2014 <em>to make known and to<br \/>\nendear the Savior to your hearts. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oh, how worthy is He . . .<br \/>\nof your most exalted conceptions,<br \/>\nof your most implicit confidence,<br \/>\nof your most self-denying service,<br \/>\nof your most fervent love!<\/p>\n<p><em>When He could give you no more<\/em> \u2014 and<br \/>\nthe fathomless depths of His love, and<br \/>\nthe boundless resources of His grace,<br \/>\nwould not be satisfied by giving you<br \/>\nless \u2014 <em>He gave you Himself! <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Robed in your nature,<br \/>\nladen with your curse,<br \/>\noppressed with your sorrows,<br \/>\nwounded for your transgressions,<br \/>\nand slain for your sins \u2014<br \/>\nHe gave His entire self for you!<\/p>\n<p>His redeeming work now finished \u2014 He is perpetually<br \/>\nengaged in meting out blessings to His people, from<br \/>\nthe exhaustless treasures of His love! He constantly<br \/>\nwoos your affection \u2014 invites your grief \u2014 and bids you<br \/>\nrepair with your <em>daily trials<\/em> to His sympathy, and with<br \/>\nyour <em>hourly guilt<\/em> to His blood. You cannot in your drafts<br \/>\nupon Christ\u2019s fullness, be too covetous; nor in your<br \/>\nexpectations of supply, be too extravagant! You may<br \/>\nfail, as, alas! the most of us do, in making too little of<br \/>\nChrist \u2014 but you cannot fail, in making too much of Him!<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nIt is utterly impossible<\/strong> to know Christ,<br \/>\nand not become inspired with a desire . . .<br \/>\nto <em>love <\/em>Him supremely,<br \/>\nto <em>serve <\/em>Him devotedly,<br \/>\nto <em>resemble <\/em>Him closely,<br \/>\nto <em>glorify <\/em>Him faithfully here,<br \/>\nand to <em>enjoy <\/em>Him fully hereafter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is utterly impossible! (Octavius Winslow, 1852) It has been the distinctive aim, and the sincere desire of my ministry \u2014 to make known and to endear the Savior to your hearts. Oh, how worthy is He . . . of your most exalted conceptions, of your most implicit confidence, of your most self-denying service, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-octavius-winslow","category-christ-his-person-and-excellencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695","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=2695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2696,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions\/2696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}