{"id":4338,"date":"2009-05-26T15:48:31","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T19:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/200\/?p=10"},"modified":"2009-05-26T15:48:31","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T19:48:31","slug":"matthew-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/05\/26\/matthew-37\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew 3:7"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The wrath to come.”
\n — Matthew 3:7<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is pleasant to pass over a country after a storm has spent itself;
\nto smell the freshness of the herbs after the rain has passed away, and
\nto note the drops while they glisten like purest diamonds in the
\nsunlight. That is the position of a Christian. He is going through a
\nland where the storm has spent itself upon his Saviour’s head, and if
\nthere be a few drops of sorrow falling, they distil from clouds of
\nmercy, and Jesus cheers him by the assurance that they are not for his
\ndestruction. But how terrible is it to witness the approach of a
\ntempest: to note the forewarnings of the storm; to mark the birds of
\nheaven as they droop their wings; to see the cattle as they lay their
\nheads low in terror; to discern the face of the sky as it groweth
\nblack, and look to the sun which shineth not, and the heavens which are
\nangry and frowning! How terrible to await the dread advance of a
\nhurricane-such as occurs, sometimes, in the tropics-to wait in terrible
\napprehension till the wind shall rush forth in fury, tearing up trees
\nfrom their roots, forcing rocks from their pedestals, and hurling down
\nall the dwelling-places of man! And yet, sinner, this is your present
\nposition. No hot drops have as yet fallen, but a shower of fire is
\ncoming. No terrible winds howl around you, but God’s tempest is
\ngathering its dread artillery. As yet the water-floods are dammed up by
\nmercy, but the flood-gates shall soon be opened: the thunderbolts of
\nGod are yet in his storehouse, but lo! the tempest hastens, and how
\nawful shall that moment be when God, robed in vengeance, shall march
\nforth in fury! Where, where, where, O sinner, wilt thou hide thy head,
\nor whither wilt thou flee? O that the hand of mercy may now lead you to
\nChrist! He is freely set before you in the gospel: his riven side is
\nthe rock of shelter. Thou knowest thy need of him; believe in him, cast
\nthyself upon him, and then the fury shall be overpast for ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The wrath to come.” — Matthew 3:7 It is pleasant to pass over a country after a storm has spent itself; to smell the freshness of the herbs after the rain has passed away, and to note the drops while they glisten like purest diamonds in the sunlight. That is the position of a Christian….<\/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-4338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338","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=4338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}