{"id":6655,"date":"2024-05-12T06:13:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T06:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6655"},"modified":"2024-05-12T06:13:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T06:13:34","slug":"%ef%bb%bfif-a-lobster-loses-its-claw-in-a-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6655","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffIf a lobster loses its claw in a fight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>If a lobster loses its claw in a fight<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracegems.org\/21\/Charles_Spurgeon_sermons.htm\">Charles Spurgeon<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI will give you a&nbsp;<em>new heart<\/em>, and put a&nbsp;<em>new spirit<\/em>&nbsp;in you.<br>&nbsp;I will remove your heart of stone, and give you a heart of flesh!\u201d Ezekiel 36:26<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What a wonder it is, that a man could ever have a new heart!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You know that&nbsp;<strong>if a lobster loses its claw in a fight<\/strong>, it may grow a new claw\u2014and that is thought to be quite marvellous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It would be far more astonishing, if men could be able to grow new arms and new legs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>But who ever heard of a man who grew a new heart?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may have seen a bough lopped off a tree, and you may have thought that perhaps the tree will sprout again and there will be a new limb. But who ever heard of a wooden fence post getting new sap and a new life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet my Lord and Master, the crucified and exalted Savior\u2014has given His people new hearts, and has and made new creations of them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTherefore, if anyone is in Christ\u2014he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!\u201d 2 Corinthians 5:17<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us rejoice together in this regenerating Savior!\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a lobster loses its claw in a fight (Charles Spurgeon) \u201cI will give you a&nbsp;new heart, and put a&nbsp;new spirit&nbsp;in you.&nbsp;I will remove your heart of stone, and give you a heart of flesh!\u201d Ezekiel 36:26 What a wonder it is, that a man could ever have a new heart! You know that&nbsp;if 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":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-h-spurgeon","category-regeneration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655","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=6655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6656,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655\/revisions\/6656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}