{"id":2909,"date":"2014-06-14T09:44:07","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T09:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2909"},"modified":"2014-06-14T09:44:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T09:44:07","slug":"the-religion-which-i-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2909","title":{"rendered":"The religion which I want"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The religion which I want<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Letters of J. C. Philpot)<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am quite sick of modern religion<\/strong>\u2014it is such<br \/>\na mixture, such a medley, such a compromise.<br \/>\nI find much, indeed, of this religion in my own<br \/>\nheart, for it suits the flesh well\u2014but I would<br \/>\nnot have it so, and grieve it should be so.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nThe religion which I want<\/strong> is that of the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0<strong>know <\/strong>nothing but what He teaches me.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0<strong>feel <\/strong>nothing but what He works in me.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0<strong>believe <\/strong>nothing but what He shows me.<\/p>\n<p>I only\u00a0<strong>mourn <\/strong>when He smites my rocky heart.<\/p>\n<p>I only\u00a0<strong>rejoice <\/strong>when He reveals the Savior.<\/p>\n<p>This religion I am seeking after, though miles and<br \/>\nmiles from it\u2014but no other will satisfy or content me.<\/p>\n<p>When the blessed Spirit is not at work in me,<br \/>\nand with me, I fall back into all the . . .<br \/>\ndarkness,<br \/>\nunbelief,<br \/>\nearthliness,<br \/>\nidleness,<br \/>\ncarelessness,<br \/>\ninfidelity, and<br \/>\nhelplessness<br \/>\nof my Adam nature.<\/p>\n<p>True religion is a supernatural and mysterious thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The religion which I want (Letters of J. C. Philpot) I am quite sick of modern religion\u2014it is such a mixture, such a medley, such a compromise. I find much, indeed, of this religion in my own heart, for it suits the flesh well\u2014but I would not have it so, and grieve it should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2909","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\/2909","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=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2911,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions\/2911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}