{"id":983,"date":"2011-07-15T08:10:29","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T08:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=983"},"modified":"2011-07-15T08:10:29","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T08:10:29","slug":"reader-marvel-not-that-you-must-be-born-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=983","title":{"rendered":"Reader! marvel not that you must be born again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Reader! marvel not that you must be born again!\u00a0<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><em>(From Octavius Winslow\u2019s, \u201cThe Restored Sheep\u201d) <\/em><br \/>\nAlas! the life of an unconverted person is one entire, unbroken, departure from God! \u00a0What hue sufficiently dark can portray the life of an unrenewed man? He may be\u2026. upright and honorable as a man of the world; faithful in all the relations of life; admired for his private rectitude, and honored for his public character and career. His morality, stainless; \u00a0his virtue, unquestioned;\u00a0 his liberality, generous; his philanthropy, distinguished; his religion, admired. And yet, destitute of the converting grace of God; \u00a0a stranger to the great change of the new birth; an unbeliever in the Lord Jesus Christ, his life is but a blank; and dying in this condition, he can in no way enter into the kingdom of heaven!<br \/>\n<strong>Reader! marvel not that you must be born again!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reader! marvel not that you must be born again!\u00a0 (From Octavius Winslow\u2019s, \u201cThe Restored Sheep\u201d) Alas! the life of an unconverted person is one entire, unbroken, departure from God! \u00a0What hue sufficiently dark can portray the life of an unrenewed man? He may be\u2026. upright and honorable as a man of the world; faithful in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-octavius-winslow","category-regeneration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","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=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}