{"id":3815,"date":"2008-12-06T23:42:52","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T04:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/ch-spurgeon\/deuteronomy-3329-2"},"modified":"2008-12-06T23:42:52","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T04:42:52","slug":"deuteronomy-3329-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2008\/12\/06\/deuteronomy-3329-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Deuteronomy 33:29"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Happy art thou, O Israel; who is like unto thee, O people
       saved by the Lord!” 
              — Deuteronomy 33:29 <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an
utter stranger to it. It were strange indeed, if it made us wretched,
for see to what a position it exalts us! It makes us sons of God.
Suppose you that God will give all the happiness to his enemies, and
reserve all the mourning for his own family? Shall his foes have mirth
and joy, and shall his home-born children inherit sorrow and
wretchedness? Shall the sinner, who has no part in Christ, call himself
rich in happiness, and shall we go mourning as if we were penniless
beggars? No, we will rejoice in the Lord always, and glory in our
inheritance, for we “have not received the spirit of bondage again to
fear; but we have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry,
Abba, Father.” The rod of chastisement must rest upon us in our
measure, but it worketh for us the comfortable fruits of righteousness;
and therefore by the aid of the divine Comforter, we, the “people saved
of the Lord,” will joy in the God of our salvation. We are married unto
Christ; and shall our great Bridegroom permit his spouse to linger in
constant grief? Our hearts are knit unto him: we are his members, and
though for awhile we may suffer as our Head once suffered, yet we are
even now blessed with heavenly blessings in him. We have the earnest of
our inheritance in the comforts of the Spirit, which are neither few
nor small. Inheritors of joy for ever, we have foretastes of our
portion. There are streaks of the light of joy to herald our eternal
sunrising. Our riches are beyond the sea; our city with firm
foundations lies on the other side the river; gleams of glory from the
spirit-world cheer our hearts, and urge us onward. Truly is it said of
us, “Happy art thou, O Israel; who is like unto thee, O people saved by
the Lord?” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Happy art thou, O Israel; who is like unto thee, O people       saved by the Lord!”                — Deuteronomy 33:29 He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself anutter stranger to it. It were strange indeed, if it made us wretched,for see to what a position it exalts us! It makes us sons…<\/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-3815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815","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=3815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}