{"id":4838,"date":"2018-07-23T10:18:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T10:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=4838"},"modified":"2018-07-23T10:18:26","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T10:18:26","slug":"christ-is-the-way-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=4838","title":{"rendered":"Christ is the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christ is the way<br \/>\nIsaiah 35: 8: And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be<br \/>\ncalled The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it;<\/p>\n<p>Earthly Zion was where the city of Jerusalem was. It was the place where<br \/>\nthe one altar and the one mercy-seat were. That was the one place where<br \/>\nthe Lord in manifest glory communed with His covenant people. Therefore,<br \/>\naccess to earthly Zion was the most important part of the believers life.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, Judah was carried away captive by Babylon. The true<br \/>\nbelievers longed to be redeemed from captivity and for a highway by<br \/>\nwhich they could return to Zion, to the tabernacle of the Lord, to<br \/>\nreturn into the presence of God. In due time the LORD raised up a king<br \/>\nwho set the captives free; and as promised, the LORD gave them a highway<br \/>\nand the remnant returned to Zion with songs of rejoicing.<\/p>\n<p>The good news of the gospel is far greater than a highway to some<br \/>\nearthly place here below. When sin entered the world and death by sin,<br \/>\nall mankind was taken into captivity in sin and separation from God. But<br \/>\nGod had a remnant chosen in Christ. In the fullness of time, Christ the<br \/>\nKing was raised up. He built the King\u2019s Highway. And he is the Way. By<br \/>\nthe Holy Spirit of God, every chosen child shall be newly born and<br \/>\ncalled into Christ the Way, kept in him. Every believer shall make our<br \/>\npilgrimage in the Way from the sinful wilderness of Babylon to heavenly<br \/>\nZion.<br \/>\nClay Curtis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christ is the way Isaiah 35: 8: And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; Earthly Zion was where the city of Jerusalem was. It was the place where the one altar and the one mercy-seat were. That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-clay-curtis","category-christ-his-person-and-excellencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838","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=4838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4839,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838\/revisions\/4839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}