{"id":1585,"date":"2011-11-13T11:17:15","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T11:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2011-11-13T11:17:15","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T11:17:15","slug":"sitting-side-by-side-with-corpses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1585","title":{"rendered":"Sitting side by side with corpses?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sitting side by side with corpses?<\/strong><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><em>The following is from Spurgeon\u2019s sermon,<br \/>\n\u201cAlive or Dead- Which?\u201d No. 755.\u00a01 John 5:12.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The moralist says, \u201cOh! I have always lived a<br \/>\nchaste, upright, moral life. I have been attentive<br \/>\nto religious duties\u2026.\u201d I tell you, unbelieving<br \/>\nmoralist, what you are- you are a corpse well<br \/>\nwashed and decently laid out, daintily robed<br \/>\nin fair white linen, sprinkled plenteously with<br \/>\nsweet perfumes, and wrapped in myrrh, and<br \/>\ncassia, and aloes, with flowers wreathed about<br \/>\nyour brow, and your bosom bedecked by the<br \/>\nhand of affection with sweetly blushing roses.<\/p>\n<p>But you have no spiritual life, and therefore<br \/>\nyour destiny is the grave, corruption is your<br \/>\nheritage, and your place of abode is fixed,<br \/>\n\u201cwhere their worm dies not, and the fire not<br \/>\nquenched.\u201d For, \u201cHe that believes not shall<br \/>\nbe damned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With all your excellencies and moralities,<br \/>\nwith all your baptisms and his sacraments,<br \/>\n\u201cHe that believes not shall be damned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is no middle place, no specially<br \/>\nreserved and superior abodes for these<br \/>\nnoble and virtuous unbelievers.<\/p>\n<p>If they have not believed, they shall be<br \/>\nbound up in bundles with the rest, for God<br \/>\nhas appointed to all unbelievers their portion<br \/>\nwith liars, and thieves, and whoremongers,<br \/>\nand drunkards, and idolaters.<\/p>\n<p>Beware, you unbelievers, for your unbelief<br \/>\nwill be the most condemning evidence against<br \/>\nyou at the great judgment day.<\/p>\n<p>Some of you are spiritually dead. Is not this<br \/>\nterrible? Oh, if by some touch of an angel\u2019s<br \/>\nwand, our bodies should all become as our<br \/>\nsouls are, how many corpses would fill these<br \/>\naisles, and crowd these pews! Oh! what a<br \/>\nsight this place would be! Those of us who<br \/>\nare alive would hasten to gather up our things<br \/>\nand say, \u201cLet us be gone! How can we<strong><br \/>\nsit side by side with corpses?<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting side by side with corpses? The following is from Spurgeon\u2019s sermon, \u201cAlive or Dead- Which?\u201d No. 755.\u00a01 John 5:12. The moralist says, \u201cOh! I have always lived a chaste, upright, moral life. I have been attentive to religious duties\u2026.\u201d I tell you, unbelieving moralist, what you are- you are a corpse well washed and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-h-spurgeon","category-the-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","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=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1586,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions\/1586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}