{"id":689,"date":"2011-07-14T12:45:29","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T12:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=689"},"modified":"2011-07-14T12:45:29","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T12:45:29","slug":"i-am-not-what-i-once-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"I am not what I once was!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I am not what I once was!<\/strong><br \/>\nIn his old age, when he could no longer see to read, John<br \/>\nNewton heard someone recite this text, \u201cBy the grace of God\u2014I am<br \/>\nwhat I am.\u201d<br \/>\nHe remained silent a short time and then, as if speaking to<br \/>\nhimself, he said: \u201cI am not what I ought to be\u2014ah, how imperfect<br \/>\nand deficient! I am not what I wish to be\u2014I abhor that which is<br \/>\nevil, and I would cleave to that which is good. I am not what I<br \/>\nhope to be\u2014soon, soon I shall put off mortality, and with<br \/>\nmortality all sin and imperfection! Though I am not what I ought<br \/>\nto be, what I wish to be, and what I hope to be\u2014yet I can truly<br \/>\nsay, I am not what I once was\u2014a slave to sin and Satan! I can<br \/>\nheartily join with the apostle and acknowledge, \u201cBy the grace of<br \/>\nGod\u2014I am what I am!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook upon those who mourn in Zion\u2013put their tears into your<br \/>\nbottle\u2013listen to their sighs and groans.\u201d<br \/>\nWilliam Tiptaft<br \/>\n\u201cIf I preach to please men, I am not the servant of Christ; and<br \/>\nwoe unto me, if I preach not the gospel!\u201d<br \/>\nWilliam Tiptaft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not what I once was! In his old age, when he could no longer see to read, John Newton heard someone recite this text, \u201cBy the grace of God\u2014I am what I am.\u201d He remained silent a short time and then, as if speaking to himself, he said: \u201cI am not what I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-william-tiptaff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","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=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}