{"id":8174,"date":"2022-02-14T01:27:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T01:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=8174"},"modified":"2023-06-08T00:15:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T00:15:13","slug":"comfort-ye-my-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2022\/02\/comfort-ye-my-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Comfort Ye My People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"drop-cap\">It is the preachers\u2019 calling and purpose to comfort and encourage the Lord\u2019s people. Spiritual comfort can be enjoyed only when the Saviour of sinners is lifted up before them in all the fulness of His glorious accomplishments.<\/p>\n<p>Courage to stand for truth in this dark and sinful world flows from the settled knowledge of peace and reconciliation with God through the blood of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Those who preach duty, obligation and self-examination must of necessity draw their hearers\u2019 eyes from the Lord Jesus in order to focus upon themselves. Such practices can never bring comfort to the downcast pilgrim, or strength to Christ\u2019s feeble folk.<\/p>\n<p>Brethren, if we are able, in our worship together, to approach the Great Triune God and there catch a glimpse of the loveliness of the Saviour Jesus Christ who has done all things well, I know our souls will be blessed and our hearts inspired to better serve Him and adore His wonderful name.<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"8174\" 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>It is the preachers\u2019 calling and purpose to comfort and encourage the Lord\u2019s people. Spiritual comfort can be enjoyed only when the Saviour of sinners is lifted up before them in all the fulness of His glorious accomplishments. Courage to stand for truth in this dark and sinful world flows from the settled knowledge of peace and reconciliation with God through the blood of Jesus Christ. Those who preach duty, obligation and self-examination must of necessity draw their hearers\u2019 eyes from the Lord Jesus in order to focus upon themselves. Such practices can never bring comfort to the downcast pilgrim, or strength to Christ\u2019s feeble folk. Brethren, if we are able, in our worship together, to approach the Great Triune God and there catch a glimpse of the loveliness of the Saviour Jesus Christ who has done all things well, I know our souls will be blessed and our hearts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":12757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1061],"tags":[1225,1224,1226,1196,1220],"class_list":["post-8174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-peter-meney-on-practical-matters","tag-discipleship","tag-evangelism","tag-gospel-preachers","tag-pastoral-care","tag-spiritual-comfort"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8174","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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8174"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16535,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8174\/revisions\/16535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}