{"id":14582,"date":"2018-09-29T01:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T08:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=14582"},"modified":"2018-09-29T22:56:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T05:56:27","slug":"when-i-passed-by-thee-i-said-unto-thee-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/2018\/09\/29\/when-i-passed-by-thee-i-said-unto-thee-live\/","title":{"rendered":"When I Passed By Thee, I Said Unto Thee, Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Charles Haddon Spurgeon<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ezekiel 16:6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saved one, consider gratefully this mandate of mercy.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Note that this fiat of God is <em>majestic<\/em>. In our text, we perceive a sinner with nothing in him but sin, expecting nothing but wrath; but the eternal Lord passes by in His glory; l He looks. He pauses, and He pronounces the solitary but royal word, &#8216;Live.&#8217; There speaks a God. Who but He could venture thus to deal with life and dispense it with a single syllable?<\/li>\n<li>Again, this fiat is <em>manifold<\/em>. When He saith &#8216;Live,&#8217; it includes many things. Here is judicial life. The sinner is ready to be condemned, but the mighty One saith, &#8216;Live,&#8217; and he rises pardoned and absolved. It is spiritual life. We knew not Jesus-our eyes could not see Christ, our ears could not hear His voice-Jehovah said &#8216;Live,&#8217; and we were quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins. Moreover, it includes glory-life, which is the perfection of spiritual life. &#8216;I said unto thee, Live:&#8217; and that word rolls on through all the years of time till death comes, and in the midst of the shadows of death, the Lord&#8217;s voice is still heard, &#8216;Live!&#8217; In the morning of the resurrection it is that self-same voice which is echoed by the arch-angel, &#8216;Live,&#8217; and as holy spirits rise to heaven to be blest for ever in the glory of their God, it is in the power of this same word, &#8216;Live.&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Note again, that it is an <em>irresistible<\/em> mandate. Saul of Tarsus is on the road to Damascus to arrest the saints of the living God. A voice is heard from heaven and a light is seen above the brightness of the sun, and Saul is crying out, &#8216;Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>This mandate is a mandate of <em>free grace<\/em>. When sinners are saved, it is only and solely because God <em>will<\/em> do it to magnify His free, unpurchased, unsought grace. Christians, see your position, debtors to grace; show your gratitude by earnest, Christlike lives, and as God has bidden you live, see to it that you live in earnest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>7.7p<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Charles Haddon Spurgeon Ezekiel 16:6 Saved one, consider gratefully this mandate of mercy. Note that this fiat of God is majestic. In our text, we perceive a sinner with nothing in him but sin, expecting nothing but wrath; but the eternal Lord passes by in His glory; l He looks. He pauses, and He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":469,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spurgeon-saturday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14583,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14582\/revisions\/14583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}