THE TRUE CHARACTER OF UNBELIEF<\/p>\n
In all unbelief there are two things \u2014 a good opinion of one\u2019s self and<\/p>\n
a bad opinion of God. Man\u2019s good opinion of himself makes him think it<\/p>\n
quite possible to win God\u2019s favor by his own religious performances; and<\/p>\n
his bad opinion of God makes him unwilling and afraid to put his case<\/p>\n
wholly into His hands. The object of the Holy Spirit\u2019s work (in<\/p>\n
convincing of sin) is to reduce his estimate of his own character that<\/p>\n
he shall think of himself as God does, and so cease to suppose it<\/p>\n
possible that he can be justified by any excellency of his own. The<\/p>\n
Spirit then alters his evil opinion of God, so as to make him see that<\/p>\n
the God with whom he has to do is really the God of all grace!<\/p>\n
Horatio Bonar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
THE TRUE CHARACTER OF UNBELIEF In all unbelief there are two things \u2014 a good opinion of one\u2019s self and a bad opinion of God. Man\u2019s good opinion of himself makes him think it quite possible to win God\u2019s favor by his own religious performances; and his bad opinion of God makes him unwilling and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,38,15,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-horatius-bonar","category-the-law","category-total-depravity","category-regeneration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485","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=3485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3486,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions\/3486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}