{"id":3469,"date":"2015-10-31T10:17:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T10:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3469"},"modified":"2015-10-31T10:17:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T10:17:50","slug":"%e2%80%9csaving-faith%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3469","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSAVING FAITH\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSAVING FAITH\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The faith of the natural man, the unregenerate man, is reasonable,<br \/>\nlogical, and often very influential (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Matt.%207.21-23\">Matt. 7:21-23<\/a>); but the faith of<br \/>\nthe Christain is a gift of God, a miracle, and is always the producer of<br \/>\na radical change in those who possess it. A man cannot possibly possess<br \/>\nsaving faith whose thinking and attitude has not been radically changed<br \/>\nconcerning God and righteousness, man and sin, Christ and grace (II Cor.<br \/>\n5:14-17). The difference between the two kinds of faith is the<br \/>\ndifference between shadows and substance, words and reality: natural<br \/>\nfaith believes but saving faith knows! Natural faith merely acknowledges<br \/>\nwhat saving faith experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Maurice Montgomery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSAVING FAITH\u201d The faith of the natural man, the unregenerate man, is reasonable, logical, and often very influential (Matt. 7:21-23); but the faith of the Christain is a gift of God, a miracle, and is always the producer of a radical change in those who possess it. A man cannot possibly possess saving faith whose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-maurice-montgomery","category-taught-of-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469","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=3469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3470,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions\/3470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}