{"id":6593,"date":"2024-04-17T23:02:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T23:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6593"},"modified":"2024-04-17T23:02:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T23:02:53","slug":"eternal-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6593","title":{"rendered":"Eternal love!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Eternal love!<br><\/strong><em>-Spurgeon\u2019s sermon, \u201cGood Cheer for Christmas\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every child of God is the object of&nbsp;<strong>eternal love<\/strong>\u2013<br>love without beginning and without end.<br>This is one of the fat things full of marrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it so, that I, a believer in Jesus, unworthy as I am,<br>am the object of the eternal love of God?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What transport lies in that thought!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Long before the Lord began to create the world, he had<br>thought of me.<br>Long before Adam fell or Christ was born,<br>and the angels sung their first choral over Bethlehem\u2019s<br>miracle, the eye and the heart of God were towards his<br>elect people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He never began to love them, they were always<br>\u201ca people near unto him.\u201d<br>Is it not so written-\u201cI have loved you with an everlasting<br>love, therefore, with lovingkindness have I drawn you\u201d?<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eternal love!-Spurgeon\u2019s sermon, \u201cGood Cheer for Christmas\u201d Every child of God is the object of&nbsp;eternal love\u2013love without beginning and without end.This is one of the fat things full of marrow. Is it so, that I, a believer in Jesus, unworthy as I am,am the object of the eternal love of God? What transport lies in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-h-spurgeon","category-gods-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6593","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=6593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6594,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6593\/revisions\/6594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}