{"id":713,"date":"2011-07-14T23:23:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T23:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=713"},"modified":"2011-07-14T23:23:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T23:23:59","slug":"splendid-sins-by-spurgeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=713","title":{"rendered":"SPLENDID SINS? by Spurgeon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>You will as surely be lost if you trust to your good works, as if<br \/>\nyou had trusted to your sins.<br \/>\nThere is a \u2018clean\u2019 path to hell as well as a \u2018dirty\u2019 one. There is as<br \/>\nsure a road to perdition along the \u2018highway of morality\u2019, as sure as<br \/>\ndown the slough of vice.<br \/>\nIf your faith is not fixed in Jesus, your best works will be but<br \/>\nSPLENDID SINS.<br \/>\nAll the performance of duties will not bring you salvation. Trust<br \/>\nJesus, and you are saved. Trust self, and you are lost. There is<br \/>\nyour only hope, poor shipwrecked mariner\u2013 yonder<br \/>\nconstellation of the cross with those five stars, the wounds<br \/>\nof Jesus- look there and live. One glance and you are saved.<br \/>\nThose soul-quickening words, \u201cBelieve and live,\u201d comprehend the<br \/>\nwhole gospel of God.<br \/>\nMay the Divine Spirit lead you now out of self, unto Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You will as surely be lost if you trust to your good works, as if you had trusted to your sins. There is a \u2018clean\u2019 path to hell as well as a \u2018dirty\u2019 one. There is as sure a road to perdition along the \u2018highway of morality\u2019, as sure as down the slough of vice. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-h-spurgeon","category-righteousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","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=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}