{"id":3212,"date":"2015-02-28T06:03:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T06:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3212"},"modified":"2015-02-28T06:03:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T06:03:52","slug":"it-was-not-the-nails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3212","title":{"rendered":"It was not the nails!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It was not the nails!<\/strong><br \/>\n(J. C. Philpot)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?\u201d\u00a0Mark 15:34<\/p>\n<p>It was not the nails driven through His hands and feet;<br \/>\nit was not the crown of thorns placed upon His brow;<br \/>\nit was not the stripes which mangled His back;<br \/>\nit was not the languor and faintness under which He<br \/>\nsuffered\u2014which caused the Lord to die.<\/p>\n<p>It was not the mere bodily agony of the cross; it was<br \/>\nnot the mere pain, though most acute and severe, of<br \/>\nthe nails driven through His sacred hands and feet. It<br \/>\nwas not the being stretched upon the cross six hours<br \/>\nthat constituted the chief part of the Redeemer\u2019s<br \/>\nsuffering. But it was the almost intolerable load of<br \/>\nimputed sin\u2014the imputed sins of millions. It was the<br \/>\ntremendous pouring of the wrath of God into His holy<br \/>\nsoul; it was the hiding of His Father\u2019s face, and the<br \/>\nvery pangs of hell that there caught hold of Him.<\/p>\n<p>Our suffering Savior drank the cup of the wrath of<br \/>\nGod to the very dregs\u2014when our vile, dreadful, and<br \/>\nhorrible sins were laid upon Him!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYet we considered Him stricken by God, smitten<br \/>\nby Him, and afflicted.\u201d\u00a0Isaiah 53:4<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYet it pleased the Lord to crush Him, and cause<br \/>\nHim to suffer, and though the Lord makes His<br \/>\nsoul an offering for sin . . .\u201d\u00a0Isaiah 53:10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was not the nails! (J. C. Philpot) \u201cMy God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?\u201d\u00a0Mark 15:34 It was not the nails driven through His hands and feet; it was not the crown of thorns placed upon His brow; it was not the stripes which mangled His back; it was not the languor and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17,34,48,43,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-j-c-philpot","category-atonement","category-gods-love","category-judgementhell-gods-wrath","category-reconciliation","category-redemption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212","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=3212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3213,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions\/3213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}