{"id":6033,"date":"2021-05-03T07:34:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T07:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6033"},"modified":"2021-05-03T07:34:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T07:34:10","slug":"%ef%bb%bfhis-master-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6033","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffHis master-purpose!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>His master-purpose!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Charles Spurgeon, \u201cChrist\u2019s Incarnation, the Foundation of Christianity\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us gather with grateful boldness around the infant in the manger, and behold our God! \u201cThou shalt call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins!\u201d Matthew 1:21<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The great object of our Lord\u2019s coming here was not to live, but to die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He appeared, not so much to subdue sin by His teaching, or to manifest goodness, or to perfect an example for us to imitate\u2014but \u201cto put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The modern teachers of error would thrust the substitutionary sacrifice of Jesus into the background\u2014but our Lord placed it in the forefront. He came to take away our sins. Do not think of Jesus without remembering the design of His coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We preach Christ\u2014so do a great many more. But, \u201cwe preach Christ crucified!\u201d 1 Corinthians 1:23. We preach, concerning our Lord\u2014His cross, His blood, His death! Upon the blood of His cross we lay great stress, extolling much \u201cthe precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cChrist Jesus came into the world to save sinners,\u201d by putting away their sin \u201cby the sacrifice of Himself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will not deny, or conceal, or depreciate His master-purpose\u2014lest we be found guilty of trampling upon His blood, and treating it as an unholy thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners\u2014of whom I am chief\u201d 1 Timothy 1:15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His master-purpose! (Charles Spurgeon, \u201cChrist\u2019s Incarnation, the Foundation of Christianity\u201d) Let us gather with grateful boldness around the infant in the manger, and behold our God! \u201cThou shalt call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins!\u201d Matthew 1:21 The great object of our Lord\u2019s coming here was not to live, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,64,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-h-spurgeon","category-successful-saviour","category-gospel-preaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033","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=6033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6034,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033\/revisions\/6034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}