{"id":19109,"date":"2016-08-19T19:11:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T00:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/0263-gods-alchemy\/"},"modified":"2016-08-19T19:11:04","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T00:11:04","slug":"0263-gods-alchemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/0263-gods-alchemy\/","title":{"rendered":"0263.    GOD&#8217;S ALCHEMY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GOD&#8217;S ALCHEMY.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The Lord thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the Lord thy God loved thee&quot; (Deu_23:5).<\/p>\n<p>1. This verse is exceedingly comforting to us.<\/p>\n<p>2. It may be that we have things in our lives that might be counted a curse.<\/p>\n<p>a. In our families, b. Businesses, c. Bodies.<\/p>\n<p>3. And we cry to God day and night to take them away, and He does not.<\/p>\n<p>4. But He will do something better-transform them into blessings.<\/p>\n<p>5. He is always doing that, i.e., curse of labour: &quot;Come hither, ye that press your beds of down and sleep not; see him sweating o&#8217;er his bread before he eats it. &#8216;Tis the primal curse. But softened into mercy; made the pledge of cheerful days, and nights without a groan&quot; (Cowper).<\/p>\n<p>6. Look at Paul&#8217;s thorn! See how God, by grace, made it a blessing to him!<\/p>\n<p>7. Old alchemists could not do this. Why He does this: Love.<\/p>\n<p>Autor: James Smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOD&#8217;S ALCHEMY. &quot;The Lord thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the Lord thy God loved thee&quot; (Deu_23:5). 1. This verse is exceedingly comforting to us. 2. It may be that we have things in our lives that might be counted a curse. a. In our families, b. Businesses, c. Bodies. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/0263-gods-alchemy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;0263.    GOD&#8217;S ALCHEMY&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}