{"id":3245,"date":"2015-03-28T10:34:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T10:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3245"},"modified":"2015-03-28T10:34:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T10:34:46","slug":"a-wonderful-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3245","title":{"rendered":"A wonderful text!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThe following is from Spurgeon\u2019s, \u201cChrist\u2019s<br \/>\nIncarnation, the Foundation of Christianity\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That is a wonderful text in\u00a0Galatians 1:4,<br \/>\ndid you ever meditate upon it?<br \/>\n\u201cWho gave Himself for our SINS\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jesus never gave Himself for our RIGHTEOUSNESS,<br \/>\nbut He did give Himself for our SINS!<\/p>\n<p>Sin is a horrible evil, a deadly poison, yet<br \/>\nit is this which gives Jesus His title of Savior<br \/>\nwhen He overcomes it. What a wonder this is!<\/p>\n<p>The first link between my soul and Christ is-<br \/>\nnot my goodness, but my badness;<br \/>\nnot my merit, but my misery;<br \/>\nnot my standing, but my falling;<br \/>\nnot my riches, but my need.<br \/>\nHe comes to visit His people, yet not to admire<br \/>\ntheir beauties, but to remove their deformities;<br \/>\nnot to reward their virtues, but to forgive their sins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is from Spurgeon\u2019s, \u201cChrist\u2019s Incarnation, the Foundation of Christianity\u201d That is a wonderful text in\u00a0Galatians 1:4, did you ever meditate upon it? \u201cWho gave Himself for our SINS\u2026\u201d Jesus never gave Himself for our RIGHTEOUSNESS, but He did give Himself for our SINS! Sin is a horrible evil, a deadly poison, yet it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-h-spurgeon","category-christ-his-person-and-excellencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245","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=3245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3246,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245\/revisions\/3246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}