{"id":13631,"date":"2023-05-01T23:39:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T23:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=13631"},"modified":"2023-05-17T07:14:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T07:14:26","slug":"could-the-creatures-help-or-ease-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2023\/05\/could-the-creatures-help-or-ease-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Could The Creatures Help Or Ease Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the points covered in this sermon:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 This hymn speaks about the indispensable duty and exceptional privilege of God\u2019s people to petition the Lord in time of need<br \/>\n\u2022 Explaining where the doctrine of petition fits within the framework of sovereign grace<br \/>\n\u2022 The first stanza emphasizes the necessity of God\u2019s people to petition the Lord\u2014the believer is rebuked for self-sufficiency, designed to produce conviction (a wounding of the heart)<br \/>\n\u2022 The first four lines of the first stanza speak about the inadequacy of helpers other than God; the last four lines speak about the folly of forgetting God<br \/>\n\u2022 The second stanza is an encouragement for God\u2019s people to petition the Lord\u2014the believer is put in remembrance of God\u2019s all-sufficiency, designed to nurture comfort (a healing of the heart)<br \/>\n\u2022 The first four lines of the second stanza speak about the ability and willingness of the Lord to help His people; the last four lines speak about the believer\u2019s assurance and confidence that the Lord will help him\/her<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"13631\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"box-shadow:none;-webkit-box-shadow:none;-moz-box-shadow:none;\"><div class=\"bookmark-off\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the points covered in this sermon: \u2022 This hymn speaks about the indispensable duty and exceptional privilege of God\u2019s people to petition the Lord in time of need \u2022 Explaining where the doctrine of petition fits within the framework of sovereign grace \u2022 The first stanza emphasizes the necessity of God\u2019s people to petition the Lord\u2014the believer is rebuked for self-sufficiency, designed to produce conviction (a wounding of the heart) \u2022 The first four lines of the first stanza speak about the inadequacy of helpers other than God; the last four lines speak about the folly of forgetting God \u2022 The second stanza is an encouragement for God\u2019s people to petition the Lord\u2014the believer is put in remembrance of God\u2019s all-sufficiency, designed to nurture comfort (a healing of the heart) \u2022 The first four lines of the second stanza speak about the ability and willingness of the Lord<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":13404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1014,1034],"tags":[1234,1227,1220,1197,1219],"class_list":["post-13631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jared-smiths-hymn-studies","category-john-newton-hymn-studies","tag-gospel-framework","tag-spiritual-assurance","tag-spiritual-comfort","tag-spiritual-growth","tag-spiritual-guidance","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13631"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15488,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13631\/revisions\/15488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}