{"id":1577,"date":"2011-11-13T11:06:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T11:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2011-11-13T11:06:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T11:06:43","slug":"the-flesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1577","title":{"rendered":"The flesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The flesh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(J. C. Philpot)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat which is born of\u00a0<strong>the flesh<\/strong> is flesh.\u201d\u00a0John 3:6<\/p>\n<p>There is no promise made that in this life, we shall be<br \/>\nset free from the indwelling and the in-working of sin.<\/p>\n<p>Many think that their flesh is to become \u201cprogressively<br \/>\nholier and holier\u201d\u2013that sin after sin is to be removed<br \/>\ngradually out of the heart\u2013until at last they are almost<br \/>\nmade perfect in the flesh. But this is an idle dream,<br \/>\nand one which, sooner or later will be crudely and<br \/>\nroughly broken to pieces.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The flesh<\/strong> will ever remain the same\u2013and we shall ever<br \/>\nfind that the flesh will lust against the Spirit. Our fleshly<br \/>\nnature is corrupt to the very core. It cannot be mended.<br \/>\nIt cannot be sanctified. It is the same at the last, as it<br \/>\nwas at the first\u2013inherently evil, and as such will never<br \/>\ncease to be corrupt until we put off mortality\u2013and with<br \/>\nit the body of sin and death.<\/p>\n<p>All we can hope for, long after, expect, and pray for\u2013is<br \/>\nthat this evil fleshly nature may be subdued, kept down,<br \/>\nmortified, crucified, and held in subjection under the power<br \/>\nof grace. But as to any such change passing upon the flesh<br \/>\n\u2013or taking place in the flesh as to make it holy\u2013it is but a<br \/>\npharisaic delusion, which, promising a holiness in the flesh,<br \/>\nleaves us still under the power of sin.<\/p>\n<p>The true sanctification of the new man of grace\u2013which is<br \/>\nwrought by a divine power\u2013is utterly distinct from any<br \/>\nimagined holiness in the flesh\u2013or any vain dream of its<br \/>\nprogressive sanctification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flesh (J. C. Philpot) \u201cThat which is born of\u00a0the flesh is flesh.\u201d\u00a0John 3:6 There is no promise made that in this life, we shall be set free from the indwelling and the in-working of sin. Many think that their flesh is to become \u201cprogressively holier and holier\u201d\u2013that sin after sin is to be removed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-j-c-philpot","category-total-depravity","category-justification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","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=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1578,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions\/1578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}