{"id":5968,"date":"2021-03-15T23:38:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T23:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5968"},"modified":"2021-03-15T23:38:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T23:38:06","slug":"%ef%bb%bfthe-creator-of-all-worlds-in-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5968","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffThe Creator of all worlds in tears!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Creator of all worlds in tears!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(John MacDuff, \u201cA BOOK FOR THE BEREAVED\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLazarus is dead.\u201d John 11:14<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;had come along with her also weeping, He was<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;deeply moved in spirit and troubled.\u201d John 11:33<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJesus wept!\u201d John 11:35<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us turn aside for a little and see this great sight!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is the Creator of all worlds in tears\u2013the God-man<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mediator dissolved in tenderest grief!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus wept out of sympathy for the bereaved. The<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>hearts at His side were breaking with anguish. All<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>unaware of how soon and how wondrously their<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>sorrow was to be turned into joy\u2013this appalling<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>thought was alone present to them in all its<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>fearfulness\u2013\u201cLazarus is dead!\u201d When He, the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God-man Mediator, with the refined sensibilities<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>of His tender heart, beheld the poignancy of their<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>affliction, the pent-up torrent of His own human<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>sympathies could be restrained no longer. His<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>tears flowed also! \u201cJesus wept!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Creator of all worlds in tears! (John MacDuff, \u201cA BOOK FOR THE BEREAVED\u201d) \u201cLazarus is dead.\u201d John 11:14 \u201cWhen Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who &nbsp;had come along with her also weeping, He was &nbsp;deeply moved in spirit and troubled.\u201d John 11:33 \u201cJesus wept!\u201d John 11:35 Let us turn aside for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,68,49,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-john-macduff","category-christ-his-person-and-excellencies","category-creation","category-gods-attributes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968","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=5968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5969,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968\/revisions\/5969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}