{"id":5635,"date":"2020-03-08T08:06:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T08:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5635"},"modified":"2020-03-08T08:06:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T08:06:58","slug":"what-a-foe-to-ones-peace-is-ones-own-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5635","title":{"rendered":"What a foe to one\u2019s peace is one\u2019s own spirit!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>This wily devil!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Joseph Philpot, \u201cDaily Words for Zion\u2019s Wayfarers\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What a foe to one\u2019s peace is one\u2019s own spirit!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What shall I call it? It is often an infernal spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why? Because it bears the mark of Satan upon it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pride of our spirit,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the presumption of our spirit,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the hypocrisy of our spirit,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the intense selfishness of our spirit,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>are often hidden from us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This wily devil, SELF, can wear such<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>masks and assume such forms!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This serpent, SELF, can so creep and crawl,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>can so twist and turn, and can disguise itself<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>under such false appearances, that it is often<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>hidden from ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who is the greatest enemy we have to fear? We all<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>have our enemies. But who is our greatest enemy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He whom you carry in your own bosom; your daily,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>hourly, and unmovable companion, who entwines<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>himself in nearly every thought of your heart; who . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>sometimes puffs up with pride,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>sometimes inflames with lust,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>sometimes inflates with presumption, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>sometimes works under pretend humility and fleshly holiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God is determined to stain the pride of human glory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He will never let SELF, (which is but another word for<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the creature,) wear the crown of victory. It must be<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>crucified, denied, and mortified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This wily devil! (Joseph Philpot, \u201cDaily Words for Zion\u2019s Wayfarers\u201d) What a foe to one\u2019s peace is one\u2019s own spirit! What shall I call it? It is often an infernal spirit. Why? Because it bears the mark of Satan upon it. The pride of our spirit, the presumption of our spirit, the hypocrisy of our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-j-c-philpot","category-total-depravity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635","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=5635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5636,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635\/revisions\/5636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}