{"id":4296,"date":"2009-04-10T00:08:04","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T04:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/april2009\/?p=69"},"modified":"2009-04-10T00:08:04","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T04:08:04","slug":"romans-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/04\/10\/romans-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Romans 8:1"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;There is therefore now no condemnation.&#8221;<br \/>\n              &#8212; Romans 8:1<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Come, my soul, think thou of this. Believing in Jesus, thou art<br \/>\nactually and effectually cleared from guilt; thou art led out of thy<br \/>\nprison. Thou art no more in fetters as a bond-slave; thou art delivered<br \/>\nnow from the bondage of the law; thou art freed from sin, and canst<br \/>\nwalk at large as a freeman, thy Saviour&#8217;s blood has procured thy full<br \/>\ndischarge. Thou hast a right now to approach thy Father&#8217;s throne. No<br \/>\nflames of vengeance are there to scare thee now; no fiery sword;<br \/>\njustice cannot smite the innocent. Thy disabilities are taken away:<br \/>\nthou wast once unable to see thy Father&#8217;s face: thou canst see it now.<br \/>\nThou couldst not speak with him: but now thou hast access with<br \/>\nboldness. Once there was a fear of hell upon thee; but thou hast no<br \/>\nfear of it now, for how can there be punishment for the guiltless? He<br \/>\nwho believeth is not condemned, and cannot be punished. And more than<br \/>\nall, the privileges thou mightst have enjoyed, if thou hadst never<br \/>\nsinned, are thine now that thou art justified. All the blessings which<br \/>\nthou wouldst have had if thou hadst kept the law, and more, are thine,<br \/>\nbecause Christ has kept it for thee. All the love and the acceptance<br \/>\nwhich perfect obedience could have obtained of God, belong to thee,<br \/>\nbecause Christ was perfectly obedient on thy behalf, and hath imputed<br \/>\nall his merits to thy account, that thou mightst be exceeding rich<br \/>\nthrough him, who for thy sake became exceeding poor. Oh! how great the<br \/>\ndebt of love and gratitude thou owest to thy Saviour!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A debtor to mercy alone,<br \/>\nOf covenant mercy I sing;<br \/>\nNor fear with thy righteousness on,<br \/>\nMy person and offerings to bring:<br \/>\nThe terrors of law and of God,<br \/>\nWith me can have nothing to do;<br \/>\nMy Saviour&#8217;s obedience and blood<br \/>\nHide all my transgressions from view.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There is therefore now no condemnation.&#8221; &#8212; Romans 8:1 Come, my soul, think thou of this. Believing in Jesus, thou art actually and effectually cleared from guilt; thou art led out of thy prison. Thou art no more in fetters as a bond-slave; thou art delivered now from the bondage of the law; thou art&#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-4296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296","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=4296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}