{"id":4152,"date":"2017-01-16T22:49:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T22:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=4152"},"modified":"2017-01-16T22:49:12","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T22:49:12","slug":"what-does-god-require","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=4152","title":{"rendered":"What Does God Require?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What Does God Require?<\/strong><br \/>\nHenry Mahan<\/p>\n<p>If a person has concern and doubts about his hope of grace and eternal glory, he might consider the following questions.<\/p>\n<p>1. God requires perfection. Am I perfect? No! Then do I have ONE who is perfect to stand for me, and I in Him?<\/p>\n<p>2. Do I have a righteousness that can stand the test of God\u2019s holy law and presence? No! Then is there ONE who will give to me such holiness?<\/p>\n<p>3. Will God hear my weak and sinful voice before His throne? No! Then is there ONE He will hear who shall be my advocate and intercessor?<\/p>\n<p>4. Do I have an acceptable blood atonement and can I act as a suitable high priest before His presence? No! Then do I have ONE who is a great High Priest in the heavens with one sacrifice for sins forever?<\/p>\n<p>5. The scriptures declare, \u201cHe that hath clean hands, a pure heart, who hath not lifted up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully\u201d shall stand in His holy place. Can this be said of me? No! Then do I have ONE in whom all the fullness of holiness, power, and truth dwells who will love me, take my case as His, and bring me to God?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, there\u2019s ONE, only ONE,<br \/>\nThe blessed, blessed Jesus, He\u2019s the ONE:<br \/>\nWhen afflictions press the soul,<br \/>\nAnd waves of trouble roll,<br \/>\nAnd you need a friend to help you,<br \/>\nHE\u2019S THE ONE!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Does God Require? Henry Mahan If a person has concern and doubts about his hope of grace and eternal glory, he might consider the following questions. 1. God requires perfection. Am I perfect? No! Then do I have ONE who is perfect to stand for me, and I in Him? 2. Do I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-henry-mahan","category-believers-rule-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152","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=4152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4154,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152\/revisions\/4154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}