{"id":5326,"date":"2019-05-09T12:12:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T12:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5326"},"modified":"2019-05-09T12:12:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T12:12:30","slug":"christ-our-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5326","title":{"rendered":"Christ Our Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\nChrist Our Rule<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Galatians 6:16 \u201cAnd as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on&nbsp;<br>them.\u201d<br>And what is this rule we walk by? The Law? No. It is this, \u201cGod forbid&nbsp;<br>that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ\u201d&nbsp;<br>(Galatians 6:14). Truly, this is the believer\u2019s rule of life. This is&nbsp;<br>our standard of measurement. Jesus Christ and Him crucified. This is our&nbsp;<br>rule for understanding the Scriptures. All Scripture points to Him. This&nbsp;<br>is the rule of our faith. He is the object of our faith. This is the&nbsp;<br>rule of our assurance. Any assurance derived anywhere but simply&nbsp;<br>glorying in the cross is a false assurance. This is the rule of our&nbsp;<br>motives. Any motive other than His glory is a wrong motive. This is the&nbsp;<br>rule of our doctrine. All of our doctrine finds Christ crucified as its&nbsp;<br>sum and substance. This is our rule of motivation. His love to us&nbsp;<br>\u201cconstraineth us\u201d. He is our rule in everything. He is that \u201cone pearl<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Todd Nibert\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christ Our Rule Galatians 6:16 \u201cAnd as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on&nbsp;them.\u201dAnd what is this rule we walk by? The Law? No. It is this, \u201cGod forbid&nbsp;that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ\u201d&nbsp;(Galatians 6:14). Truly, this is the believer\u2019s rule of life. This is&nbsp;our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-todd-nibert","category-believers-rule-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326","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=5326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5327,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326\/revisions\/5327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}