{"id":3530,"date":"2015-12-19T04:01:05","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T04:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3530"},"modified":"2015-12-19T04:01:05","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T04:01:05","slug":"true-faith-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3530","title":{"rendered":"True faith!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>True faith!<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><em><br \/>\nThe following is from Spurgeon\u2019s sermon,<br \/>\n\u201cThe Trial of Your Faith\u201d #2055.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/1Peter%201.7\">1Peter 1:7<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>True faith<\/strong> is, in every case, the operation<br \/>\nof the Spirit of God. Its nature is purifying,<br \/>\nelevating, heavenly.<\/p>\n<p>Wherever true faith is found, it is:<br \/>\nthe sure mark of eternal election,<br \/>\nthe sign of a blessed condition, and<br \/>\nthe forecast of a heavenly destiny.<\/p>\n<p>Faith is<br \/>\nthe eye of the renewed soul,<br \/>\nthe hand of the regenerated mind,<br \/>\nthe mouth of the newborn spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Faith is<br \/>\nthe evidence of spiritual life,<br \/>\nthe mainspring of holiness,<br \/>\nthe foundation of delight,<br \/>\nthe prophecy of glory, and<br \/>\nthe dawn of endless knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>If you have true faith, you have infinitely<br \/>\nmore than he who has all the world.<\/p>\n<p>Faith is<br \/>\nthe assurance of sonship;<br \/>\nthe pledge of inheritance;<br \/>\nthe grasp of boundless possession;<br \/>\nthe perception of the invisible.<\/p>\n<p>Within your faith there lies glory, even<br \/>\nas the oak sleeps within the acorn.<\/p>\n<p>Time would fail me to tell of<br \/>\nthe powers,<br \/>\nthe privileges,<br \/>\nthe possessions and<br \/>\nthe prospects of faith.<\/p>\n<p>He that has faith is blessed, for<br \/>\nhe pleases God,<br \/>\nhe is justified before the throne of holiness,<br \/>\nhe has full access to the throne of grace and<br \/>\nhe has the preparation for reigning with Christ forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True faith! The following is from Spurgeon\u2019s sermon, \u201cThe Trial of Your Faith\u201d #2055.\u00a01Peter 1:7 True faith is, in every case, the operation of the Spirit of God. Its nature is purifying, elevating, heavenly. Wherever true faith is found, it is: the sure mark of eternal election, the sign of a blessed condition, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-h-spurgeon","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530","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=3530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3532,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions\/3532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}