{"id":7273,"date":"2026-09-26T06:28:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T06:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=7273"},"modified":"2026-09-26T06:28:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T06:28:30","slug":"the-mystery-of-his-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=7273","title":{"rendered":"The Mystery of His Love!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Mystery of His Love!<\/strong><br>The following is by Augustus Toplady\u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If anything can awake astonishment, and inflame our<br>gratitude, it must be that mystery of love- God manifested<br>in our nature, and made man, to bleed and die for our salvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That He should condescend to be sold for thirty shekels of<br>silver, to be apprehended and condemned as a malefactor;<br>to be crowned with piercing thorns; to be scourged at the<br>bloody pillar; to bear His cross; to be numbered with<br>transgressors; to be reviled by ruffianly soldiers, and a merciless<br>populace; to be torn with tormenting nails; and pierced with a<br>hostile spear; and suspended on the ignominious tree, between<br>heaven and earth, as unworthy of either, though He was the<br>maker and preserver of both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What thought can reach, what tongue can tell, the infinite riches<br>of His love to man, that induced Him freely to undergo all this,<br>only to make man happy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nay, He not only freely underwent it, but even<br>longed for the time of His crucifixion to come-<br>\u201cI have a baptism of sufferings to be baptised with; and<br>how am I straitened till it be accomplished?\u201d (Luke 12:50)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mystery of His Love!The following is by Augustus Toplady\u2013 If anything can awake astonishment, and inflame ourgratitude, it must be that mystery of love- God manifestedin our nature, and made man, to bleed and die for our salvation. That He should condescend to be sold for thirty shekels ofsilver, to be apprehended and condemned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-augustus-toplady","category-the-cross"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273","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=7273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7274,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273\/revisions\/7274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}