{"id":1057,"date":"2011-07-16T09:02:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T09:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2011-07-16T09:46:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T09:46:00","slug":"that-heavenly-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1057","title":{"rendered":"That Heavenly Teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>That Heavenly Teacher<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracegems.org\/SERMONS2\/Philpot.htm\">Philpot<\/a>, \u201cDaily Words for Zion\u2019s Wayfarers\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>We do not learn that we are\u00a0<strong>sinners<\/strong> merely<br \/>\nby reading it in the Bible. It must be wrought,<br \/>\nI might say, burnt into us.<br \/>\nNor will anyone sincerely and spiritually cry for<br \/>\n<strong>mercy<\/strong>, until sin is spiritually felt and known . . .<br \/>\nin its misery,<br \/>\nin its dominion,<br \/>\nin its guilt,<br \/>\nin its entanglements,<br \/>\nin its wiles and allurements,<br \/>\nin its filth and pollution, and<br \/>\nin its condemnation.<br \/>\n<strong>Where the Holy Spirit works<\/strong>, He kindles . . .<br \/>\nsighs,<br \/>\ngroans,<br \/>\nsupplications,<br \/>\nwrestlings, and<br \/>\npleadings<br \/>\nto know\u00a0<strong>Christ<\/strong>, feel His love, taste the efficacy<br \/>\nof His atoning blood, and embrace Him as all<br \/>\nour salvation and all our desire.<br \/>\nAnd though there may, and doubtless will be,<br \/>\nmuch barrenness, hardness, deadness, and<br \/>\napparent carelessness often felt; still\u00a0<strong>that<br \/>\nheavenly Teacher<\/strong> will revive His work, though<br \/>\noften by painful methods; nor will He let the<br \/>\nquickened soul rest short of a personal and<br \/>\nexperimental enjoyment of Christ and His<br \/>\nglorious salvation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That Heavenly Teacher (Philpot, \u201cDaily Words for Zion\u2019s Wayfarers\u201d) We do not learn that we are\u00a0sinners merely by reading it in the Bible. It must be wrought, I might say, burnt into us. Nor will anyone sincerely and spiritually cry for mercy, until sin is spiritually felt and known . . . in its misery, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-j-c-philpot","category-taught-of-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1075,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/1075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}