{"id":3042,"date":"2014-11-15T08:23:10","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T08:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3042"},"modified":"2014-11-15T08:23:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T08:23:10","slug":"because-he-first-loved-us%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3042","title":{"rendered":"BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US\u2026<br \/>\n<\/strong><em><br \/>\n-Spurgeon, \u201cLove\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n\u201cWe love God,\u00a0<strong>because he first loved us.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Christian, he loved you before time began,<br \/>\nand when in eternity he dwelt alone.<\/p>\n<p>He thought of you before you had a being.<\/p>\n<p>When as yet the sun and the moon were not\u2013<br \/>\nwhen the sun, the moon, and the stars slept in the mind of<br \/>\nGod, like unborn forests in an acorn cup, when the old sea<br \/>\nwas not yet born, long before this infant world lay in its<br \/>\nswaddling bands of mist\u2013 it was then that God had inscribed<br \/>\nyour name upon the heart and upon the hands of Christ<br \/>\nindelibly, to remain for ever.<\/p>\n<p>And does not this make you love God?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe love God,\u00a0<strong>because he first loved us.<\/strong>\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US\u2026 -Spurgeon, \u201cLove\u201d \u201cWe love God,\u00a0because he first loved us.\u201d Christian, he loved you before time began, and when in eternity he dwelt alone. He thought of you before you had a being. When as yet the sun and the moon were not\u2013 when the sun, the moon, and the stars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-h-spurgeon","category-gods-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042","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=3042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3044,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions\/3044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}