{"id":3801,"date":"2008-12-13T18:47:30","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T23:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/os-chambers\/the-bounty-of-the-destitute"},"modified":"2008-12-13T18:47:30","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T23:47:30","slug":"the-bounty-of-the-destitute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2008\/12\/13\/the-bounty-of-the-destitute\/","title":{"rendered":"THE BOUNTY OF THE DESTITUTE"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Being justified freely by His grace&#8230;  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8212; Romans 3:24<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Gospel of the grace of God awakens an intense longing in human<br \/>souls and an equally intense resentment, because the revelation which<br \/>it brings is not palatable. There is a certain pride in man that will<br \/>give and give, but to come and accept is another thing. I will give<br \/>my life to martyrdom, I will give myself in consecration, I will do<br \/>anything, but do not humiliate me to the level of the most<br \/>hell-deserving sinner and tell me that all I have to do is to accept<br \/>the gift of salvation through Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n<p>We have to realize that we cannot earn or win anything from God; we<br \/>must either receive it as a gift or do without it. The greatest<br \/>blessing spiritually is the knowledge that we are destitute; until we<br \/>get there Our Lord is powerless. He can do nothing for us if we think<br \/>we are sufficient of ourselves, we have to enter into His Kingdom<br \/>through the door of destitution. As long as we are rich, possessed of<br \/>anything in the way of pride or independence, God cannot do anything<br \/>for us. It is only when we get hungry spiritually that we receive the<br \/>Holy Spirit. The gift of the essential nature of God is made<br \/>effectual in us by the Holy Spirit, He imparts to us the quickening<br \/>life of Jesus, which puts &#8220;the beyond&#8221; within, and immediately &#8220;the<br \/>beyond&#8221; has come within, it rises up to &#8220;the above,&#8221; and we are<br \/>lifted into the domain where Jesus lives. (John 3:5.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Being justified freely by His grace&#8230; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8212; Romans 3:24 The Gospel of the grace of God awakens an intense longing in humansouls and an equally intense resentment, because the revelation whichit brings is not palatable. There is a certain pride in man that willgive and give, but to come and accept is another&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}