{"id":950,"date":"2011-07-15T07:36:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T07:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=950"},"modified":"2011-07-15T07:36:10","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T07:36:10","slug":"the-robe-from-spurgeon%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cthe-treasure-of-grace%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=950","title":{"rendered":"The Robe! From Spurgeon\u2019s, \u201cThe Treasure of Grace\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Robe!<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>From Spurgeon\u2019s, \u201cThe Treasure of Grace\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nGod\u2019s children are wrapped around with a\u00a0<strong>robe<\/strong>, a seamless\u00a0<strong>robe<\/strong>, which earth and heaven could not buy the like of\u00a0 it, were it once lost.<br \/>\nFor texture it excels the fine linen of the merchants; for whiteness it is purer than the driven snow; no looms on earth could make it, but Jesus spent his life to make my\u00a0<strong>robe<\/strong> of righteousness. There was a drop of blood in every throw of the shuttle, and every thread was made of his own heart\u2019s agonies. It is a\u00a0<strong>robe<\/strong> that is divine, complete; a better one than Adam wore in the perfection of Eden. Adam had but a human<br \/>\nrighteousness though a perfect one, but we have a divinely perfect righteousness. Strangely, my soul, are you arrayed, for your Savior\u2019s<br \/>\ngarment is on you- the royal\u00a0<strong>robe<\/strong> of David is wrapped about his Jonathan. Look at God\u2019s people as they are clothed also in the garments of \u2018sanctification\u2019. Was there ever such a<strong>robe<\/strong> as that?<\/p>\n<p>It is literally stiff with jewels.<\/p>\n<p>Every day he arrays the lowliest of his people as though it were a wedding day. He arrays them as a bride adorns herself with jewels. He will have them dressed in gold of Ophir. What riches of grace then must there be in God who thus clothes his children!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Charles Spurgeon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Robe! From Spurgeon\u2019s, \u201cThe Treasure of Grace\u201d God\u2019s children are wrapped around with a\u00a0robe, a seamless\u00a0robe, which earth and heaven could not buy the like of\u00a0 it, were it once lost. For texture it excels the fine linen of the merchants; for whiteness it is purer than the driven snow; no looms 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":[7,30,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-h-spurgeon","category-righteousness","category-the-called"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","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=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":952,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions\/952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}