{"id":4058,"date":"2016-09-25T06:17:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T06:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=4058"},"modified":"2016-09-25T06:17:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T06:17:48","slug":"a-demonstration-of-contrast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=4058","title":{"rendered":"A demonstration of contrast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a demonstration of contrast between the way of the wicked flesh and<br \/>\nthe way of sovereign grace when God\u2019s servant, Stephen was being stoned<br \/>\nto death for the gospel\u2019s sake. The enemies of the gospel were filled<br \/>\nwith rage; Stephen was filled with joy in the Lord (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Acts%207.%2056\">Acts 7: 56<\/a>; Phil.<br \/>\n3:3). They were occupied with hatred; Stephen was bursting with the love<br \/>\nof God shed abroad in his heart by the Holy Spirit (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Rom.%205.5\">Rom. 5:5<\/a>). They were<br \/>\npacked with fear; Stephen was occupied with faith (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Heb.%2012.2\">Heb. 12:2<\/a>). They were<br \/>\nchock-full of persecution; Stephen was jam-packed with prayer (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Acts%207.60\">Acts 7:60<\/a>).<br \/>\nOh, what a difference the sovereign grace of God makes in the believer<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Rom.%209.15-16\">Rom. 9:15-16<\/a>;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/1%20Cor.%204.7\">1 Cor. 4:7<\/a>;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/2%20Tim.%201.9\">2 Tim. 1:9<\/a>). Oh, how dreadfully wicked is the<br \/>\nway of the sinful flesh (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Rom.%203.9-18\">Rom. 3:9-18<\/a>). Tom Harding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a demonstration of contrast between the way of the wicked flesh and the way of sovereign grace when God\u2019s servant, Stephen was being stoned to death for the gospel\u2019s sake. The enemies of the gospel were filled with rage; Stephen was filled with joy in the Lord (Acts 7: 56; Phil. 3:3). They were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-tom-harding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058","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=4058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4060,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions\/4060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}