{"id":888,"date":"2011-07-15T06:52:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T06:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=888"},"modified":"2011-07-15T06:52:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T06:52:49","slug":"the-individual-believer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=888","title":{"rendered":"The Individual Believer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Individual Believer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eternal life is by the Seed being sown within us\u2013Christ in you the hope of glory.\u00a0 We begin as babes. And children grow up.\u00a0 The Lord compared faith to a grain of mustard seed, we grow in faith.\u00a0 Believers are complete in Christ\u2013it is not the measure of our faith that makes us complete\u2013it is Christ in whom we are Complete.\u00a0 So it is that growth in grace is not growth in self-sufficiency or away from Christ but growing up into Christ, more dependent upon him (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Ephesians%204.15\" target=\"_blank\">Ephesians 4:15<\/a>;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/2%20Peter%203.%2018\" target=\"_blank\">2 Peter 3: 18<\/a>).\u00a0 This growth will cause us not to think more of ourselves\u2013but less of ourselves and more of Him! (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/John%203.30\" target=\"_blank\">John 3:30<\/a>; Philippians 2;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/1%20Corinthians%2014.20\" target=\"_blank\">1 Corinthians 14:20<\/a>).\u00a0\u00a0 Using those he has grown to be least is how he grows his kingdom to be the greatest\u2013for he that is least among you all, the same shall be great (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Luke%209.%2048\" target=\"_blank\">Luke 9: 48<\/a>).\u00a0 Just as our Lord walked this earth, no man doing him harm until his hour was come, just as he called and maintained and grew his church, so he maintains and grows every individual child in his body. Growth of the kingdom of heaven is by the Power and Wisdom of God our Father through his Son Jesus Christ.\u00a0 Growth in grace is as much by the free, irresistible grace of God as the beginning of life which came by his irresistible grace.\u00a0 He shall grow his kingdom. So let this be an encouragement to us\u2013despise not the day of small things.\u00a0\u00a0 What a glorious word to encourage us-thy God reigneth!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Clay Curtis<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Individual Believer Eternal life is by the Seed being sown within us\u2013Christ in you the hope of glory.\u00a0 We begin as babes. And children grow up.\u00a0 The Lord compared faith to a grain of mustard seed, we grow in faith.\u00a0 Believers are complete in Christ\u2013it is not the measure of our faith that makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-clay-curtis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","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=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":889,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}