{"id":4298,"date":"2017-07-25T06:38:02","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T06:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=4298"},"modified":"2017-07-25T06:38:02","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T06:38:02","slug":"the-power-of-man-in-salvation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=4298","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Man in Salvation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Power of Man in Salvation<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Parks<\/p>\n<p>There is no power in man to save, because salvation comes to those who are \u201cwithout strength\u201d (Romans 5:6) by virtue of being in their native condition \u201cdead in trespasses and sins\u201d (Ephesians 2:1). Neither is there power in the law to save, because it is \u201cweak through the flesh\u201d (Romans 8:3), through man\u2019s inability to keep it. Neither is there power in baptism (or any other ordinance or sacrament), being evidenced in that Paul declared, \u201cChrist sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Gospel\u201d (1 Corinthians 1:17). Rather, this power of God to salvation is found in the gospel, which is the word of God, a revelation of the divine will which \u201cis quick and powerful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Power of Man in Salvation Daniel Parks There is no power in man to save, because salvation comes to those who are \u201cwithout strength\u201d (Romans 5:6) by virtue of being in their native condition \u201cdead in trespasses and sins\u201d (Ephesians 2:1). Neither is there power in the law to save, because it is \u201cweak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-daniel-parks","category-salvation-deliverance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298","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=4298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4301,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298\/revisions\/4301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}