{"id":5950,"date":"2021-02-28T23:57:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T23:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5950"},"modified":"2021-02-28T23:57:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T23:57:35","slug":"%ef%bb%bfhe-must-increase-but-i-must-decrease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5950","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffHe must increase, but I must decrease.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>He must increase, but I must decrease.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>John 3:30<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; John the Baptist, the man who was sent to prepare the way of the Lord; the man who our Lord Jesus Christ said was the greatest prophet born of a woman, said:&nbsp;<em>\u201c<\/em><em>The Lord Jesus Christ must increase, but I must decrease.\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;To that, all of God\u2019s people will cry: Amen! The higher that the Lord Jesus Christ is raised up, and the more exalted God\u2019s people see Him to be\u2026 The happier they are! When Christ is exalted, their joy is exalted, their hope is exalted, and their faith is exalted as it LOOKS UP to Him, HIGH in the heavens. The higher they see His throne to be, the more glorious the gospel of their redemption is to them, and the more in awe they are of how far He came down to save them. After seeing Christ in all of His exalted glory, God\u2019s people cannot and will not ever see Him any other way. They will cry to every soul who will listen: \u201c<em>He must increase, but I must decrease!\u201d&nbsp; Pastor Gabe Stalnaker<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He must increase, but I must decrease.\u201d John 3:30 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; John the Baptist, the man who was sent to prepare the way of the Lord; the man who our Lord Jesus Christ said was the greatest prophet born of a woman, said:&nbsp;\u201cThe Lord Jesus Christ must increase, but I must decrease.\u201d&nbsp;To that, all of God\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-gabe-stalnaker","category-christ-his-person-and-excellencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5950","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=5950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5951,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5950\/revisions\/5951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}