{"id":6682,"date":"2024-05-22T10:11:23","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T10:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6682"},"modified":"2024-05-22T10:11:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T10:11:23","slug":"a-gracious-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6682","title":{"rendered":"A gracious influence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A gracious influence<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(J. C. Philpot, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracegems.org\/20\/priest.htm\">Jesus, the Great High Priest<\/a>\u201c)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The love of Jesus has&nbsp;<strong>a gracious influence<\/strong>&nbsp;on the life,<br>conduct, and conversation of a true believer. The tree<br>is known by its fruit; and those branches alone which<br>bring forth fruit unto God, are in manifest union with<br>the only true Vine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Love to Jesus is the constraining principle of all holy<br>obedience.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cIf you love Me, keep my commandments,\u201d<br>was His dying injunction to His disciples. As, then, His<br>bleeding love is experimentally known, there will be . . .<br>&nbsp; a conformity to His image,<br>&nbsp; an obedience to His will,<br>&nbsp; a walking in His footsteps.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gracious influence (J. C. Philpot, \u201cJesus, the Great High Priest\u201c) The love of Jesus has&nbsp;a gracious influence&nbsp;on the life,conduct, and conversation of a true believer. The treeis known by its fruit; and those branches alone whichbring forth fruit unto God, are in manifest union withthe only true Vine. Love to Jesus is the constraining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-j-c-philpot","category-gods-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6682","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=6682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6683,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6682\/revisions\/6683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}