{"id":2191,"date":"2012-09-08T06:49:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T06:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2012-09-08T06:49:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T06:49:04","slug":"the-flesh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2191","title":{"rendered":"The flesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The flesh<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n(J. C. Philpot)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat which is born of <strong>the flesh<\/strong> is flesh.\u201d John 3:6<\/p>\n<p>There is no promise made that in this life, we shall be set free from the indwelling and the in-working of sin.<\/p>\n<p>Many think that their flesh is to become \u201cprogressively holier and  holier\u201d\u2013that sin after sin is to be removed gradually out of the  heart\u2013until at last they are almost<br \/>\nmade perfect in the flesh. But this is an idle dream, and one which,  sooner or later will be crudely and roughly broken to pieces.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The flesh<\/strong> will ever remain the same\u2013and we shall  ever find that the flesh will lust against the Spirit. Our fleshly  nature is corrupt to the very core. It cannot be mended.<br \/>\nIt cannot be sanctified. It is the same at the last, as it was at the  first\u2013inherently evil, and as such will never cease 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 that this  evil fleshly nature may be subdued, kept down, mortified, crucified, and  held in subjection under the power of grace. But as to any such change  passing upon the flesh \u2013or taking place in the flesh as to make it  holy\u2013it is but a pharisaic delusion, which, promising a holiness in the  flesh, leaves us still under the power of sin.<\/p>\n<p>The true sanctification of the new man of grace\u2013which is wrought by a  divine power\u2013is utterly distinct from any imagined 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 the flesh is flesh.\u201d John 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-j-c-philpot","category-justification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191","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=2191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2193,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions\/2193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}