{"id":787,"date":"2011-07-15T04:09:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T04:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=787"},"modified":"2011-07-15T04:09:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T04:09:40","slug":"%e2%80%9ci-have-many-people-in-this-city%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=787","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI have many people in this city!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Acts%2018.10\">Acts 18:10<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This should be a great encouragement to evangelize\u2014since God has among the vilest of the vile, the most reprobate, the most debauched and drunken\u2014an elect people who must be saved. When you take the Word to them, you do so because God has ordained you to be the messenger of life to their souls, and they must receive it\u2014for so the decree of predestination runs. They are as much redeemed by Christ\u2019s blood\u2014as the saints before the eternal throne! They are Christ\u2019s property\u2014yet perhaps they are at present, lovers of the ale-house, and haters of holiness. But if Jesus Christ has purchased them\u2014He will have them.<\/p>\n<p>God is not unfaithful to forget the price which His Son has paid. He will not allow His substitutionary sacrifice to be in any case\u2014an ineffectual, dead thing. Tens of thousands of redeemed ones are not regenerated yet\u2014but regenerated they must be! This is our comfort when we go forth to them with the quickening Word of God.<\/p>\n<p>Nay, more, these ungodly ones are prayed for by Christ before the throne. \u201cMy prayer is not for them alone,\u201d says the great Intercessor, \u201cI pray also for those who will believe in Me through their message.\u201d Poor, ignorant souls\u2014they do not pray for themselves\u2014but Jesus prays for them. Their names are on His breastplate, and before long they must bow their stubborn knee, breathing the penitential sigh before the throne of grace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe time for figs is not yet.\u201d The predestined moment has not struck! But when it comes\u2014they shall obey\u2014for God will have His own redeemed people! They must obey\u2014for the Spirit is not to be withstood when He comes forth with fullness of His saving power. They must become the willing servants of the living God. \u201cMy people shall be willing in the day of My power.\u201d \u201cHe\u00a0<em>shall <\/em>justify many.\u201d \u201cHe\u00a0<em>shall <\/em>see of the travail of His soul\u2014and be satisfied.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Charles Spurgeon.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acts 18:10 This should be a great encouragement to evangelize\u2014since God has among the vilest of the vile, the most reprobate, the most debauched and drunken\u2014an elect people who must be saved. When you take the Word to them, you do so because God has ordained you to be the messenger of life to their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17,44,42,36,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-h-spurgeon","category-atonement","category-gospel-preaching","category-predestination","category-redemption","category-the-called"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","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=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":789,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}