{"id":4135,"date":"2009-03-03T23:01:24","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T03:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/april2009\/?p=11"},"modified":"2009-03-03T23:01:24","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T03:01:24","slug":"jude-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/03\/03\/jude-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Jude 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Faultless before the presence of his glory.&#8221;<br \/>\n              &#8212; Jude 24<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Revolve in your mind that wondrous word, &#8220;faultless!&#8221; We are far off<br \/>\nfrom it now; but as our Lord never stops short of perfection in his<br \/>\nwork of love, we shall reach it one day. The Saviour who will keep his<br \/>\npeople to the end, will also present them at last to himself, as &#8220;a<br \/>\nglorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but<br \/>\nholy and without blemish.&#8221; All the jewels in the Saviour&#8217;s crown are of<br \/>\nthe first water and without a single flaw. All the maids of honour who<br \/>\nattend the Lamb&#8217;s wife are pure virgins without spot or stain. But how<br \/>\nwill Jesus make us faultless? He will wash us from our sins in his own<br \/>\nblood until we are white and fair as God&#8217;s purest angel; and we shall<br \/>\nbe clothed in his righteousness, that righteousness which makes the<br \/>\nsaint who wears it positively faultless; yea, perfect in the sight of<br \/>\nGod. We shall be unblameable and unreproveable even in his eyes. His<br \/>\nlaw will not only have no charge against us, but it will be magnified<br \/>\nin us. Moreover, the work of the Holy Spirit within us will be<br \/>\naltogether complete. He will make us so perfectly holy, that we shall<br \/>\nhave no lingering tendency to sin. Judgment, memory, will-every power<br \/>\nand passion shall be emancipated from the thraldom of evil. We shall be<br \/>\nholy even as God is holy, and in his presence we shall dwell for ever.<br \/>\nSaints will not be out of place in heaven, their beauty will be as<br \/>\ngreat as that of the place prepared for them. Oh the rapture of that<br \/>\nhour when the everlasting doors shall be lifted up, and we, being made<br \/>\nmeet for the inheritance, shall dwell with the saints in light. Sin<br \/>\ngone, Satan shut out, temptation past for ever, and ourselves<br \/>\n&#8220;faultless&#8221; before God, this will be heaven indeed! Let us be joyful<br \/>\nnow as we rehearse the song of eternal praise so soon to roll forth in<br \/>\nfull chorus from all the blood-washed host; let us copy David&#8217;s<br \/>\nexultings before the ark as a prelude to our ecstasies before the<br \/>\nthrone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Faultless before the presence of his glory.&#8221; &#8212; Jude 24 Revolve in your mind that wondrous word, &#8220;faultless!&#8221; We are far off from it now; but as our Lord never stops short of perfection in his work of love, we shall reach it one day. The Saviour who will keep his people to the end,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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-4135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}