{"id":83,"date":"2019-12-12T20:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T20:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/misterrichardson.com\/?p=83"},"modified":"2019-12-18T10:51:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T10:51:25","slug":"the-sinners-encouragement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/misterrichardson.com\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"The Sinner&#8217;s Encouragement"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Come as a sinner and you will find all in your favor &#8211; all, the door open and every face smiling upon you. But if you attempt to come as a saint, and you are dubious whether you are so or not, you will come as an impostor and a hypocrite; and you will be detested &#8211; there can be no doubt that you are a sinner. Well, then, come in your real character and you will be welcome. Every thing in the councils of heaven favors a returning sinner &#8211; election, particular redemption, vocation, justification, etc. &#8211; all, all are in his favor and give him every encouragement he can want and God can give. But impostors are abhorred. And such is everyone who assumes a character which he is not sure belongs to him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> &#8211; Thomas Charles, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0851516564\/drmartylloydjone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spiritual Counsels<\/a>, pgs 387,388.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come as a sinner and you will find all in your favor &#8211; all, the door open and every face smiling upon you. But if you attempt to come as a saint, and you are dubious whether you are so or not, you will come as an impostor and a hypocrite; and you will be detested &#8211; there can be no doubt that you are a sinner. Well, then, come in your real character and you will be welcome. Every&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/misterrichardson.com\/?p=83\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/misterrichardson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/misterrichardson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/misterrichardson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/misterrichardson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/misterrichardson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/misterrichardson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/misterrichardson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/misterrichardson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/misterrichardson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/misterrichardson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}