{"id":3841,"date":"2016-06-04T07:25:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T07:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3841"},"modified":"2016-06-04T07:25:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T07:25:50","slug":"grace-and-truth-came-by-jesus-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3841","title":{"rendered":"GRACE AND TRUTH CAME BY JESUS CHRIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GRACE AND TRUTH CAME BY JESUS CHRIST<\/p>\n<p>Grace and truth are fitly and inseparably joined together. We cannot have grace without truth, nor truth without grace. Those who reject grace, reject truth; and those who reject truth, reject grace. \u201cGrace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord\u201d (Rom. 5:2l). The grace which saves the sinner is not mere pity and sentiment such as we find in the creature. The grace which saves sinners is established on the principles of an honored law and a satisfied justice (Rom. 3:23-26). Grace does not ignore the law nor set aside its requirements. No! It establishes the law (Rom. 3:3l). Grace establishes the law because it has a Substitute who perfectly fulfilled the law and endured the death penalty for all who believe, in order that God may be both just and justifier.<\/p>\n<p>Law manifests what is in men\u2013sin!<br \/>\nGrace manifests what is in God\u2013love!<br \/>\nLaw demands righteousness from men!<br \/>\nGrace brings righteousness to men!<br \/>\nLaw sentences men to death!<br \/>\nGrace brings dead men to life!<br \/>\nLaw speaks of what I must do!<br \/>\nGrace tells what Christ has done!<br \/>\nLaw gives a knowledge of sin!<br \/>\nGrace puts away sin!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, to grace how great a debtor<br \/>\nDaily I\u2019m constrained to be.\u201d Pastor Henry Mahan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRACE AND TRUTH CAME BY JESUS CHRIST Grace and truth are fitly and inseparably joined together. We cannot have grace without truth, nor truth without grace. Those who reject grace, reject truth; and those who reject truth, reject grace. \u201cGrace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord\u201d (Rom. 5:2l). The grace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-henry-mahan","category-grace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3841","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=3841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3842,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3841\/revisions\/3842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}