Even your own relatives think you are almost insane<\/p>\n
(J. C. Philpot, \u201cThe Abiding Comforter<\/strong>\u201d 1858)<\/p>\n \u201cThe Spirit of truth.\u00a0The world<\/strong> cannot receive Him, The world<\/strong>\u2014that is, the world dead in sin, and the Now this explains why\u00a0a religion that presents itself The world can receive a religion that consists of . . .<\/strong> These are things\u00a0seen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Beautiful buildings, But the . . . Do not marvel, then, that worldly professors despise a Even your own relatives think you are almost insane (J. C. Philpot, \u201cThe Abiding Comforter\u201d 1858) \u201cThe Spirit of truth.\u00a0The world cannot receive Him, because it\u00a0neither sees Him nor knows Him.\u201d John 14:17 The world\u2014that is, the world dead in sin, and the world dead in profession\u2014men destitute of the life and power of God\u2014must […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-j-c-philpot","category-false-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804","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=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1805,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions\/1805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nbecause it\u00a0neither sees Him nor knows Him<\/strong>.\u201d
\nJohn 14:17<\/p>\n
\nworld dead in profession\u2014men destitute of the life
\nand power of God\u2014must have something that it can <\/strong>
\nsee<\/strong>. And, as heavenly things can only be seen by
\nheavenly eyes, they cannot receive the things which
\nare invisible.<\/p>\n
\nwith a degree of beauty and grandeur to the natural
\neye will always be received by the world<\/strong>; while a . . .
\nspiritual,
\ninternal,
\nheartfelt and
\nexperimental
\nreligion will always be rejected.<\/p>\n
\nforms,
\nrites, and
\nceremonies.<\/p>\n
\npainted windows,
\npealing organs,
\nmelodious choirs,
\nthe pomp and parade of an earthly priesthood,
\nand a whole apparatus of \u2018religious ceremony\u2019,
\ncarry with them something that the natural eye can
\nsee and admire. The world receives all this \u2018external
\nreligion\u2019 because it is suitable to the natural mind
\nand intelligible to their reasoning faculties.<\/p>\n
\nquiet,
\ninward,
\nexperimental,
\ndivine religion,
\nwhich presents no attractions to the outward eye, but
\nis wrought in the heart by a divine operation\u2014the world
\ncannot receive this\u2014because it presents nothing that
\nthe natural eye can rest upon with pleasure, or is
\nadapted to gratify their general idea of what religion
\nis or should be.<\/p>\n
\nreligion wrought in the soul by the power of God.\u00a0Do not
\nbe surprised if even your own relatives think you are
\nalmost insane<\/strong>, when you speak of the consolations of
\nthe Spirit, or of the teachings of God in your soul. They
\ncannot receive these things, for they have no experience
\nof them; and being such as are altogether opposed to
\nthe carnal mind, they reject them with enmity and scorn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"