{"id":948,"date":"2011-07-15T07:35:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T07:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=948"},"modified":"2011-07-15T07:35:20","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T07:35:20","slug":"for-me-a-worm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=948","title":{"rendered":"For me a worm!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>For me a worm! <\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cThe Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for our sins\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Galatians%201.3-4\">Galatians 1:3-4<\/a><br \/>\n\u201cHe is the atoning sacrifice for our sins\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/1%20John%202.2\">1 John 2:2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>O what an astonishing truth is this! The Son of God offering Himself up a sacrifice for sin! He who knew no sin \u2014 who was holy, harmless, and undefiled \u2014 not one thought of evil in His heart \u2014 yet made sin, or a sin offering! O the magnitude of the thought! If God Himself had not declared it, we could not have believed it, though an angel\u2019s trumpet had announced it.<\/p>\n<p>O blessed and adorable Immanuel! Was this the\u00a0<em>end <\/em>and\u00a0<em>design <\/em>of Your intense and mysterious sufferings? Was it that You should obey, bear the sin, endure the curse, and bow Your head in death \u2014 that I might go free? Was it in my stead, and in my behalf?<\/p>\n<p><em>O unexampled love! O infinite and free grace! <\/em>That God should become incarnate \u2014 that the Holy One should so take upon Him sin, as to be dealt with by stern justice as though He were Himself the sinner \u2014 that He should drain the cup of wrath, give His back to the smiters, endure the shame and the spitting, and at last be suspended upon the cross, and pour out His last drop of most precious blood \u2014\u00a0<em>and all this for me! For me a rebel!<\/em> <strong>For me a worm!<\/strong> <em>For me the chief of sinners!<\/em> \u201cThe Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me!\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Galatians%202.20\">Galatians 2:20<\/a>. Be astonished, O heavens! and be amazed, O earth! Was ever love like this?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Octavius Winslow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For me a worm! \u201cThe Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for our sins\u201d\u00a0Galatians 1:3-4 \u201cHe is the atoning sacrifice for our sins\u201d\u00a01 John 2:2 O what an astonishing truth is this! The Son of God offering Himself up a sacrifice for sin! He who knew no sin \u2014 who was holy, harmless, and undefiled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-octavius-winslow","category-gods-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","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=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}