{"id":2841,"date":"2014-04-26T10:50:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T10:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2841"},"modified":"2014-04-26T10:50:20","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T10:50:20","slug":"everlasting-love-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2841","title":{"rendered":"Everlasting Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Everlasting Love<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Isaiah 54: 10:  The mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but My kindness  shall not depart from you, neither shall the covenant of My peace be  removed, says the Lord who has mercy on you.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[Believer] consider the love of God for you, as everlasting love. It  never did, it never will, depart. Notwithstanding your fall in Adam,  your depraved nature, your constant sins and departures, the love of God  continues. He may veil for a little moment the light of His  countenance, may chastise and afflict you for your revoltings and  backslidings; still, having loved you once, He loves you to the end.  Whatever else departs, His love never will. Wealth may leave you, health  may fail you, friends may forsake you, and life itself expire; but  God\u2019s paternal love, and Christ\u2019s fraternal sympathy, will never, never  change.<\/p>\n<p>The covenant of peace made with Christ, on your behalf, O my soul,  sealed with His blood, even the \u201cblood of the everlasting covenant,\u201d  which procured peace, speaks peace, and bequeaths peace, even \u201cthe peace  of God which passes all understanding,\u201d shall never be removed. The  mountains of human strength, lofty and sun-gilded, the hills of creature  good, clad with verdure, and smiling with fruit, shall be removed; the  strongest, the loveliest, and the dearest, the first to die. But, \u201cJesus  Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.\u201d Amid the  vicissitudes and changes of the present, the dying friends and revolving  landscapes of life, cling, O my soul, to Him whose covenant never  alters, whose kindness never changes; who, having loved you before all  time, and loved you in all time, will love you to the end of all  time\u2014yes, when time shall be no longer. The Lord that has mercy upon you  has said it.<\/p>\n<p>Unconverted soul! the day will come when, if found out of Christ, you  will cry to the mountains and to the rocks to cover you\u2014but will cry in  vain! Before His face of glory the heavens and the earth will flee  away, and your soul will stand without a shelter or a hiding place.  Escape for your life! There is one mountain, and one only, where you can  find shelter from the wrath that is to come\u2014it is Mount Calvary. Hidden  there, the \u201cAvenger of Blood\u201d cannot reach you. No refuge but the  cross\u2014no fountain but the blood\u2014no righteousness but Christ\u2019s\u2014no Savior  but Jesus\u2014will meet your case. \u201cHim that comes unto Me I will in no way  cast out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Octavius Winslow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everlasting Love Isaiah 54: 10: The mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but My kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall the covenant of My peace be removed, says the Lord who has mercy on you. [Believer] consider the love of God for you, as everlasting love. 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