{"id":919,"date":"2011-07-15T07:17:52","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T07:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=919"},"modified":"2011-07-15T07:17:52","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T07:17:52","slug":"only-trust-in-the-love-of-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=919","title":{"rendered":"Only trust in the love of Christ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Only trust in the\u00a0<strong>love<\/strong> of Christ.<\/em>\u2013Never was there before\u2013nor has there been since\u2013nor ever will be again\u2013such ancient, marvelous, stupendous love as the love of Jesus! It is the astonishment of heaven, it is the wonder of angels, and in their best, holiest, and most self-abased moments, it is the marvel of saints on earth, and will be, through eternity, their study and their praise. His condescending stoop to our nature\u2013His descent from heaven\u2019s glory to earth\u2019s lowliness\u2013His bearing our sins\u2013his endurance of our curse\u2013His suffering our penalty\u2013His exhaustion of our bitter cup\u2013His resurrection from the grave, and His ascent into heaven, are facts which speak, louder and sweeter than an angel\u2019s trumpet, the love of Christ to His Church. \u201cHusbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But not only was Jesus the unveiler of His own heart, but He came to unveil the heart of God. He came, not to inspire the heart of God with an affection for man\u2013but to make known a love already existing from eternity. He who only knew the secret love of God\u2019s heart, came to reveal that secret. So that Jesus was the exponent of God\u2019s love, its only revealer, and its most precious gift. Christ is God\u2019s love embodied\u2013God\u2019s love speaking, God\u2019s love acting, God\u2019s love weeping, God\u2019s love dying, God\u2019s love inviting. Blessed truth, that he whose arms of faith embrace Christ, and through Christ also embrace the Triune Jehovah.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Octavius Winslow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only trust in the\u00a0love of Christ.\u2013Never was there before\u2013nor has there been since\u2013nor ever will be again\u2013such ancient, marvelous, stupendous love as the love of Jesus! It is the astonishment of heaven, it is the wonder of angels, and in their best, holiest, and most self-abased moments, it is the marvel of saints on earth, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,61,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-octavius-winslow","category-believers-assurance","category-gods-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","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=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}