{"id":2843,"date":"2019-04-18T15:46:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T22:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=2843"},"modified":"2019-04-18T15:46:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T22:46:05","slug":"max_gift","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/max_gift\/","title":{"rendered":"An Eleventh Hour Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: right;\">BY Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2844 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jesus-cross.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jesus-cross.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jesus-cross-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jesus-cross-450x225.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 20.25pt; background: white; margin: 12.0pt 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: black;\">\u201cWe deserve to die for our evil deeds, but this man hasn\u2019t done one thing wrong.\u201d \u00a0These words were spoken on Skull\u2019s hill by a thief.\u00a0 After a life of crime, he\u2019s reached the bottom\u2014a crossbeam and three spikes.\u00a0 He begins to wonder who Jesus might be, and he hears the whisper, \u201cFather, forgive them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2845 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/thief4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/thief4.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/thief4-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/thief4-450x315.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 20.25pt; background: white; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 12.0pt 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: black;\">When the other criminal hurls an accusation at Jesus, this thief defends him.\u00a0 His statement includes facts that anyone needs to recognize to come to Jesus. \u00a0We are guilty and he is innocent. \u00a0He is not on that cross for his sins.\u00a0 He is there for ours. \u00a0And Jesus performs the greatest miracle of the cross\u2014the miracle of forgiveness.\u00a0 \u201cToday, you will be with me in paradise.\u201d \u00a0A sin-soaked criminal is received by a blood-stained Savior. \u00a0Such is the definition of grace.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":2844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[35],"class_list":["post-2843","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_entries-english-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/2843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/2843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2843"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=2843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}