{"id":7202,"date":"2026-08-19T11:01:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T11:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=7202"},"modified":"2026-08-19T11:01:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T11:01:54","slug":"the-sword-of-divine-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=7202","title":{"rendered":"The sword of Divine justice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The sword of Divine justice buried in His sinless heart!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Henry Law)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holy Father,<br>We blush to lift up our eyes unto You, O God of all grace and love. Shame and confusion of face humble us to the very dust. Wherever You have been&nbsp;<em>boundless in mercy<\/em>-we have been&nbsp;<em>abundant in sin!<\/em>&nbsp;We cannot measure our ingratitude. We cannot estimate our vileness. Each day has added to our guilt. Each scene has witnessed our&nbsp;<em>wicked hearts<\/em>, our&nbsp;<em>straying feet<\/em>&nbsp;and our&nbsp;<em>offending tongues<\/em>. What is there in heaven or in earth, above, around, without, or within-which condemns us not? The&nbsp;<em>sun&nbsp;<\/em>condemns us, which has seen our misdeeds; the&nbsp;<em>darkness<\/em>, too, which hides nothing from Your all-penetrating eye!<br>The&nbsp;<em>cruel accuser<\/em>&nbsp;justly accuses us.<br>Your righteous law,<br>Your holy Word,<br>our sin-soiled consciences,<br>our public and our private hours<br>-write dark things against us! We make no&nbsp;<em>denial<\/em>. We frame no&nbsp;<em>excuse<\/em>. We confess, Father, that we have sinned against heaven and before You-and are not worthy to be called Your sons! But still we live!<br><br>We live to fly as contrite penitents to Your extended arms!<br>We know that You will not cast us off-for Jesus brings us near.<br>You will not condemn us-for Your dear Son died in our place.<br>You will not mark the mountains upon mountains of our sins-for the Savior has removed them all.<br>His precious blood has washed out every crimson stain!<br>Christ\u2019s spotless robe of righteousness, covers all our deformities! We put it on by the&nbsp;<em>hand of faith<\/em>-and we rejoice that we are lovely in His precious loveliness, and beauteous in His matchless beauty.<br><br>Open widely the&nbsp;<em>eyes of our faith<\/em>, that we may see all our justly merited curse, expended on the faultless head of our precious sin-atoning Savior, and&nbsp;<strong>the sword of Divine justice buried in His sinless heart!<\/strong><br><br>We come to You . . .<br>&nbsp; clinging to His cross,<br>&nbsp; sheltered by His side,<br>&nbsp; hidden in His wounds,<br>&nbsp; cleansed in His blood,<br>&nbsp; covered by His spotless robe,<br>&nbsp; beautified in His salvation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sword of Divine justice buried in His sinless heart! (Henry Law) Holy Father,We blush to lift up our eyes unto You, O God of all grace and love. Shame and confusion of face humble us to the very dust. Wherever You have been&nbsp;boundless in mercy-we have been&nbsp;abundant in sin!&nbsp;We cannot measure our ingratitude. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-henry-law","category-gods-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7202","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=7202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7203,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7202\/revisions\/7203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}