{"id":7277,"date":"2026-09-26T06:30:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T06:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=7277"},"modified":"2026-09-26T06:34:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T06:34:40","slug":"7277","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=7277","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0The matchless wisdom of God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;<strong>The matchless wisdom of God which devised this system of salvation!<\/strong><br><br>(Charles Spurgeon)<br><br>\u201cChrist also loved the&nbsp;<strong>church&nbsp;<\/strong>and gave Himself for it!\u201d Ephesians 5:25<br><br>The more I consider the doctrine of&nbsp;<em>substitution<\/em>\u2013the more is my soul enamoured of&nbsp;<strong>the matchless wisdom of God which devised this system of salvation<\/strong>. As for a hazy atonement which atones for everybody in general, and for nobody in particular\u2013an atonement made equally for&nbsp;<em>Judas&nbsp;<\/em>and for&nbsp;<em>John<\/em>\u2013I care nothing for it. But a literal, substitutionary sacrifice, Christ vicariously bearing the wrath of God on my behalf\u2013this calms my conscience with regard to the righteous demands of the law of God, and satisfies the instincts of my nature which declare that, as God is just, He must exact the penalty of my guilt!<br><br>&nbsp;\u201cI am the Good Shepherd: The Good Shepherd giveth His life for the&nbsp;<strong>sheep<\/strong>!\u201d John 10:11<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;The glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one.&nbsp; Jn.17:22<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When men receive glory from one another in this world, it generally results in inflating their ego, enhancing their power, and even increasing their wealth. Our God is infinitely and eternally self-contained in all glory, honor and power. He needs nothing and cannot be added to in any way. Therefore, when He is glorified, it cannot be for His benefit. He is always the Benefactor and we are always the beneficiaries. To behold God\u2019s glory is our greatest need and it is God\u2019s greatest gift to His people. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ~~Greg Elmquist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;The matchless wisdom of God which devised this system of salvation! (Charles Spurgeon) \u201cChrist also loved the&nbsp;church&nbsp;and gave Himself for it!\u201d Ephesians 5:25 The more I consider the doctrine of&nbsp;substitution\u2013the more is my soul enamoured of&nbsp;the matchless wisdom of God which devised this system of salvation. As for a hazy atonement which atones for everybody [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-greg-elmquist","category-gods-attributes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7277","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=7277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7284,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7277\/revisions\/7284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}