{"id":8827,"date":"2016-08-16T23:53:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/self-satisfaction\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T23:53:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:53:15","slug":"self-satisfaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/self-satisfaction\/","title":{"rendered":"SELF-SATISFACTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>The Bible, Luke 12:19 kjv<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Be always displeased with what thou art, if your desirest to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest. But if thou have enough thou perisheth. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still, nor go back, nor deviate.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Augustine of Hippo<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>\u201cI am not satisfied with my faith,\u201d says one. No, of course you aren\u2019t; nor will you ever be, at least I hope not! The Bible does not say, \u201cTherefore being satisfied with our faith we have peace with God;\u201d it says, \u201cbeing justified by faith, we have peace with God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>\u201cI am not satisfied with my love.\u201d What? Did you expect, on this earth, to be satisfied with any grace found in you? Was it your love for Christ or His love for you that gave you peace at first?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Now then, there is but one thing with which Almighty God is satisfied entirely satisfied and that is THE PERSON AND WORK OF HIS SON! It is with Christ that we must be satisfied, not with ourselves, nor anything about us! When we cease from all our labors, and all our righteousness, and ENTER INTO HIS REST, pardon and peace will come without delay.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Horatius Bonar<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. The Bible, Luke 12:19 kjv Be always displeased with what thou art, if your desirest to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest. But if thou have enough thou &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/self-satisfaction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SELF-SATISFACTION&#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-8827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8827","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=8827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}