{"id":6645,"date":"2024-05-05T07:08:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T07:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6645"},"modified":"2024-05-05T07:08:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T07:08:22","slug":"surety-of-a-better-testament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6645","title":{"rendered":"SURETY OF A BETTER TESTAMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SURETY OF A BETTER TESTAMENT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBy so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.\u201d (Heb. 7:22)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Father made His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to be the surety of the covenant of grace.&nbsp; The covenant of grace is better than the covenant of the law in every way.&nbsp; The law can only reveal our guilt.&nbsp; The covenant of grace makes sinners to be not guilty by the sacrifice of Christ.&nbsp; The law can only demand our death.&nbsp; The covenant of grace demands life for God\u2019s elect because Christ already died for them.&nbsp; The law can never forgive sin, but the covenant of grace demands forgiveness of all the sin that was laid on Christ.&nbsp; Thank God that Christ did for His people everything that the law cannot do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SURETY OF A BETTER TESTAMENT \u201cBy so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.\u201d (Heb. 7:22) The Father made His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to be the surety of the covenant of grace.&nbsp; The covenant of grace is better than the covenant of the law in every way.&nbsp; The law can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,64,129,18,141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-frank-tate","category-successful-saviour","category-complete-in-christ","category-grace","category-grace-of-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645","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=6645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6646,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645\/revisions\/6646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}