{"id":3274,"date":"2015-04-11T11:01:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T11:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3274"},"modified":"2015-04-11T11:01:51","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T11:01:51","slug":"false-religion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3274","title":{"rendered":"False religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>False religion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracegems.org\/book4\/Bonar.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Horatius Bonar<\/a>, \u201cFalse Religion and Its Doom\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will lay your corpses in front of your idols and<br \/>\nscatter your bones around your altars.\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Ezek.%206.5\" target=\"_blank\">Ezek. 6:5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is such a thing as false religion. It may be earnest and zealous, yet false.<\/p>\n<p>No amount of sincerity or zeal will make that true, which is in itself false.<\/p>\n<p>False religion is the worship of a false god or the false worship of the true God.<\/p>\n<p>We worship the true God untruly when we give him only half a heart, half a soul.<\/p>\n<p>Do not think that the utterance of some true words, or the expression of a little sentimental devotion, is the true worship of the true God.<\/p>\n<p>False religion is useless.<br \/>\nIt profits nothing and nobody, either here or hereafter.<br \/>\nIt is not acceptable to God.<br \/>\nIt will not be counted a substitute for the true.<br \/>\nIt does not satisfy the conscience.<br \/>\nIt does not make the man happy.<br \/>\nIt does not fill the heart.<br \/>\nIt does not remove burdens.<br \/>\nIt will not stand the fire.<br \/>\nIt is but wood, and hay, and stubble.<br \/>\nThe judgment will sweep it all away.<br \/>\nIt is useless both for time nor eternity,<br \/>\nboth for earth nor heaven.<\/p>\n<p>It is irksome and unprofitable, only cheating<br \/>\nthe poor worshiper into the belief that he has<br \/>\nfelt or performed something good and worthy.<\/p>\n<p>God abhors false religion.<br \/>\nIt has not one feature that is pleasing to Him.<br \/>\nIt is merely external.<br \/>\nIt is untrue.<br \/>\nIt is against His revelation.<br \/>\nIt is dishonoring to Him.<br \/>\nIt is self exalting.<br \/>\nIt is pure mockery.<br \/>\nIt is rottenness and death.<br \/>\nIt is a mouthful of words, a handful of dust and ashes.<br \/>\nTherefore God abhors it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will lay your corpses in front of your idols and<br \/>\nscatter your bones around your altars.\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Ezek.%206.5\" target=\"_blank\">Ezek. 6:5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMorality will keep you out of jail \u2014 but only the blood of Jesus will keep you out of Hell!\u201d Charles Spurgeon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>False religion (Horatius Bonar, \u201cFalse Religion and Its Doom\u201d) \u201cI will lay your corpses in front of your idols and scatter your bones around your altars.\u201d\u00a0Ezek. 6:5 There is such a thing as false religion. It may be earnest and zealous, yet false. No amount of sincerity or zeal will make that true, which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-h-spurgeon","category-false-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274","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=3274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3275,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions\/3275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}