{"id":2815,"date":"2014-03-29T10:58:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T10:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2815"},"modified":"2014-03-29T10:58:23","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T10:58:23","slug":"the-sinner%e2%80%99s-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2815","title":{"rendered":"The sinner\u2019s friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The sinner\u2019s friend<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I have called you friends!&#8221; <\/em>John 15:15<\/p>\n<p>The Pharisees called our Lord \u201cThe friend of sinners.\u201d They thought to brand him with shame and hold his name up to ridicule; but what they thought to be his shame is his chief glory. He is indeed \u201cthe friend of sinners.\u201d Thank God he is! This is what makes the gospel good news. This is no sham gospel that we preach; but it is real salvation for real sinners. It is real grace for real guilt. We preach no gospel of merit for moralists. We preach the good news of forgiveness for men who are nothing, have nothing and can do nothing! \u201cCOME ye sinners, poor and needy, weak and wounded, sick and sore. Jesus ready stands to save you, full of pity, love, and power.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Henry Mahan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sinner\u2019s friend &#8220;I have called you friends!&#8221; John 15:15 The Pharisees called our Lord \u201cThe friend of sinners.\u201d They thought to brand him with shame and hold his name up to ridicule; but what they thought to be his shame is his chief glory. He is indeed \u201cthe friend of sinners.\u201d Thank God he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,44,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-henry-mahan","category-gospel-preaching","category-false-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815","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=2815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2817,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions\/2817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}