{"id":7150,"date":"2026-07-05T07:52:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T07:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=7150"},"modified":"2026-07-05T07:52:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T07:52:58","slug":"the-divine-hammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=7150","title":{"rendered":"The divine hammer!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The divine hammer!<\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><br><em>Spurgeon, \u201cPreach, Preach, Preach Everywhere\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You do not know who the elect are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You do not know whose heart will be broken by the divine hammer of truth.<br>But it is your responsibility to use the divine hammer on the hard heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And as the gospel is preached it will attract to itself, by its own power, through the Holy Spirit, those whom God has ordained unto eternal life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cIs not my word like fire?\u201d saith the Lord,<\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><strong>\u201cand like a&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>hammer<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;that breaketh a rock in pieces?\u201d<\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><strong>Jeremiah 23:29<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The divine hammer!Spurgeon, \u201cPreach, Preach, Preach Everywhere\u201d You do not know who the elect are. You do not know whose heart will be broken by the divine hammer of truth.But it is your responsibility to use the divine hammer on the hard heart. And as the gospel is preached it will attract to itself, by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,44,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-h-spurgeon","category-gospel-preaching","category-preaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7150","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=7150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7151,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7150\/revisions\/7151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}