{"id":1542,"date":"2012-07-25T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totellyouthetruth.net\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2012-07-25T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T12:00:00","slug":"god-saved-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/?p=1542","title":{"rendered":"God Saved You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.totellyouthetruth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/God-Saved-You1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.totellyouthetruth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/God-Saved-You1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"God-Saved-You[1]\" width=\"850\" height=\"315\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1543\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is true God loves because God is love (John 3:16; 1 John 4:8). It is also true that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.totellyouthetruth.net\/?p=791\" target=\"_blank\">God hates people<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>People are fallen and sinful. Sin is that which destroys what God loves. People are slaves to sin (Romans 6:20). And even God&#8217;s judgment can be God allowing people to pursue their sin (Romans 1). And God&#8217;s wrath is poured out upon all sin and sinners (Romans 1:18; John 6:23).<\/p>\n<p><strong>God saves us <em>from<\/em> Himself<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Isaiah 48:11 explains, &#8220;For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another.&#8221; And the Apostle Paul writes, &#8220;For if while we were enemies we were <strong>reconciled to God<\/strong> by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life&#8221; (Romans 5:10).<\/p>\n<p><strong>God saves us <em>to<\/em> Himself<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So now, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the LORD (Isaiah 37:20)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God <strong>by the death of his Son,<\/strong> much more, now that we are reconciled, <strong>shall we be saved by his life<\/strong> (Romans 5:10)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>God saves us <em>by<\/em> Himself<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is true God loves because God is love (John 3:16; 1 John 4:8). It is also true that God hates people. People are fallen and sinful. Sin is that which destroys what God loves. People are slaves to sin (Romans 6:20). And even God&#8217;s judgment can be God allowing people to pursue their sin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gospel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3hM8I-oS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}