{"id":6364,"date":"2022-12-06T06:49:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T06:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6364"},"modified":"2022-12-06T06:49:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T06:49:22","slug":"%ef%bb%bfif-my-pocket-was-full-of-stones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6364","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffIf my pocket was full of stones!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>If my pocket was full of stones!<\/strong><br><br>(<a href=\"http:\/\/gracegems.org\/Newton\/John_Newton1.htm\">Letters of John Newton<\/a>)<br><br>John 8:4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John 8:5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>If my pocket was full of stones<\/strong>, I have no right to throw one at the greatest sinner upon earth. I have either done as bad, or worse than he \u2014 or I certainly would have done so, if the Lord had left me to myself \u2014 for I am made of just the same materials. If there is any difference between myself and the greatest wretch \u2014 it is wholly of sovereign grace!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If my pocket was full of stones! (Letters of John Newton) John 8:4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. John 8:5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? If my pocket was full of stones, I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-john-newton","category-total-depravity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6364","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=6364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6365,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6364\/revisions\/6365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}