{"id":6707,"date":"2024-06-02T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T10:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6707"},"modified":"2024-06-02T10:00:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T10:00:27","slug":"god-spared-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6707","title":{"rendered":"GOD SPARED NOT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>GOD SPARED NOT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2 Peter 2:4-7; several times the word of the Lord says, \u201cGod spared not;\u201d the righteous and holy judgment of God fell without any mixture of mercy on&nbsp; many. The angels that fell were judged and cast out. The rebels in Noah\u2019s&nbsp; day were judged and with the flood of God\u2019s wrath. The cities of Sodom and&nbsp; Gomorrah were reduced to ashes for their sinful wickedness. But we also read&nbsp; of God\u2019s mercy to some, Noah and his family were spared. The Lord delivered&nbsp; Lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Lord knows how to justly deliver His people from the wrath to come&nbsp; without compromising His righteous character (2 Peter 2:9; 1 Thes. 1:9-10).&nbsp; The Lord our God justly delivers His elect from the wrath to come because He&nbsp; spared not the Lord Jesus Christ from the holy wrath of His anger against&nbsp; our sin (Isa. 53:10; Lam. 1:12; Zech. 13:7). Read this verse slowly;&nbsp;<em>\u201cHe that spared not his own Son, but delivered him&nbsp; up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?&nbsp; Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God\u2019s elect? It is God that&nbsp; justifieth<\/em>\u201d (Romans 8:32-22).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; What amazing love the Lord God commends to us in that while we were yet&nbsp; sinners, Christ died for us; (Rom. 5:6-10; 1John 4:10). Were it not for His&nbsp; sovereign love, His fetching grace, and the sacrifice of Christ for our sin,&nbsp; we too would eternally suffer the wrath of God. Thank you Lord for the gospel of substitution and satisfaction; (2 Cor.&nbsp; 5:21; 1 Peter 3:18).&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Tom Harding<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOD SPARED NOT In 2 Peter 2:4-7; several times the word of the Lord says, \u201cGod spared not;\u201d the righteous and holy judgment of God fell without any mixture of mercy on&nbsp; many. The angels that fell were judged and cast out. The rebels in Noah\u2019s&nbsp; day were judged and with the flood of God\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-tom-harding","category-atonement-substitution-propitiation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707","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=6707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6708,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707\/revisions\/6708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}