{"id":5774,"date":"2020-08-03T01:27:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T01:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5774"},"modified":"2020-08-03T01:27:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T01:27:29","slug":"%ef%bb%bfit-is-god-who-justifies-romans-833","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5774","title":{"rendered":"\ufeff\u201cIt is God who justifies.\u201d Romans 8:33."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>\u201cIt is God who justifies.\u201d Romans 8:33.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Octavius Winslow<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Behold the eternal security of the weakest believer in Jesus. The act of justification, once passed under the great seal of the resurrection of Christ, God can never revoke without denying Himself. Here is our safety. Here is the ground of our dauntless challenge, \u201cWho shall lay anything to the charge of God\u2019s elect? It is God who justifies.\u201d What can I need more? What more can I ask? If God, the God of spotless purity, the God of inflexible righteousness, justifies me, \u201cwho is he that condemns? \u201d Sin may condemn, but it is God that justifies! The law may alarm, but it is God that justifies! Satan may accuse, but it is God that justifies! Death may terrify, but it is God that justifies! \u201cIf GOD is for us, who can be against us?\u201d Who will dare condemn the soul whom He justifies? How gloriously will this truth shine forth in the great day of judgment! Every accuser will then be dumb. Every tongue will then be silent. Nothing shall be laid to the charge of God\u2019s elect. GOD Himself shall pronounce them fully, and forever justified: \u201cAnd those He justifies, He also glorifies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt is God who justifies.\u201d Romans 8:33. Octavius Winslow Behold the eternal security of the weakest believer in Jesus. The act of justification, once passed under the great seal of the resurrection of Christ, God can never revoke without denying Himself. Here is our safety. Here is the ground of our dauntless challenge, \u201cWho shall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-octavius-winslow","category-justification-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774","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=5774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5775,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774\/revisions\/5775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}