{"id":3460,"date":"2015-10-24T09:53:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T09:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3460"},"modified":"2015-10-24T09:53:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T09:53:40","slug":"all-trials-all-temptations-all-strippings-all-emptyings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3460","title":{"rendered":"All trials, all temptations, all strippings, all emptyings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>All trials, all temptations,<br \/>\nall strippings, all emptyings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The very\u00a0<strong>trials<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>afflictions<\/strong>, and the sore<br \/>\n<strong>temptations<\/strong> through which God\u2019s family pass,<br \/>\nall eventually endear Christ to them.<\/p>\n<p>And depend upon it, if you are a child of God,<br \/>\nyou will sooner or later, in your travels through<br \/>\nthis wilderness, find your need of Jesus as \u201cable<br \/>\nto save to the uttermost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There will be such things in your heart, and such<br \/>\nfeelings in your mind\u2014the temptations you will<br \/>\nmeet with will be such\u2014that nothing short of a<br \/>\nSavior that is able to save to the uttermost<br \/>\ncan save you out of your desperate case and<br \/>\nfelt circumstances as utterly lost and helpless.<\/p>\n<p>This a great point to come to.\u00a0<strong>All trials, all<br \/>\ntemptations, all strippings, all emptyings<\/strong><br \/>\nthat do not end here are valueless\u2014because<br \/>\nthey lead the soul away from God.<\/p>\n<p>But the convictions, the trials, the temptations,<br \/>\nthe strippings, the emptyings, that bring us to<br \/>\nthis spot\u2014that\u00a0<strong>we have nothing<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>can do<br \/>\nnothing<\/strong>, but the Lord alone must do it all\u2014these<br \/>\nhave a blessed effect, because they eventually<br \/>\nmake Jesus very near and dear unto us. J.C.Philpot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All trials, all temptations, all strippings, all emptyings The very\u00a0trials and\u00a0afflictions, and the sore temptations through which God\u2019s family pass, all eventually endear Christ to them. And depend upon it, if you are a child of God, you will sooner or later, in your travels through this wilderness, find your need of Jesus as \u201cable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-j-c-philpot","category-perseverence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460","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=3460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3461,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions\/3461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}