{"id":5823,"date":"2020-09-02T05:40:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T05:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5823"},"modified":"2020-09-02T05:40:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T05:40:13","slug":"%ef%bb%bfthat-is-what-some-of-you-were","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5823","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffThat is what some of you were!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

That is what some of you were!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(J. C. Philpot)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Holy Spirit undertakes to sanctify the objects<\/p>\n\n\n\n

of the Father\u2019s eternal choice, and of the Son\u2019s<\/p>\n\n\n\n

redeeming death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanctification is as needful, as indispensable<\/p>\n\n\n\n

for the Church\u2019s salvation, as redemption!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For O! how low was the Church sunk in the Adam fall! The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

image of God, in which she was created\u2013how defaced and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

as if blotted out! Death spreading itself with fatal effect<\/p>\n\n\n\n

over her every mental and bodily faculty! Sin, like a hideous<\/p>\n\n\n\n

leprosy, infecting her to the very heart\u2019s core! A thousand<\/p>\n\n\n\n

base lusts plunging her deeper and deeper into a sea of<\/p>\n\n\n\n

guilt and crime! Enmity against God boiling up in waves<\/p>\n\n\n\n

of ceaseless rebellion! Satan tyrannizing over her with<\/p>\n\n\n\n

cruel sway, sometimes drawing and sometimes driving,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

but by one or the other dragging her without hope or<\/p>\n\n\n\n

help towards the brink of the bottomless pit!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hear that bold blasphemer!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See that drunken, raving prostitute!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look at that murderer with his blood-red hand<\/p>\n\n\n\n

stealing off from his mangled victim!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or, if you shrink from such sounds and such sights, picture<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to your imagination the vilest wretch who ever disgraced<\/p>\n\n\n\n

human nature\u2013and you see in that portrait the features of<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the Church as implicated in the Adam fall\u2013and sunk into<\/p>\n\n\n\n

original and actual transgression!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What a work, then, was undertaken by that most gracious<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and condescending Spirit, who solemnly pledged Himself,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

in the eternal covenant, to sanctify such wretches, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to fit and frame them to be partakers of holiness, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

live forever in God\u2019s spotless presence!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It were easier for the wolf to dwell with the lamb, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the leopard to lie down with the sheep\u2013than for ungodly<\/p>\n\n\n\n

sinners, unwashed, unregenerated, unsanctified, to dwell<\/p>\n\n\n\n

forever before the throne of God and of the Lamb!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But O, the wonders of wisdom, grace, and love!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sinners, the vilest sinners, the worst of wretches, the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

basest of mortals\u2013can and will enter through the gates<\/p>\n\n\n\n

into the holy city!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul, having enumerated some of the vilest crimes which<\/p>\n\n\n\n

stain human nature and sink it below the beasts that perish,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

says, \u201cAnd that is what some of you were! But you were<\/p>\n\n\n\n

washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That is what some of you were! (J. C. Philpot) The Holy Spirit undertakes to sanctify the objects of the Father\u2019s eternal choice, and of the Son\u2019s redeeming death. Sanctification is as needful, as indispensable for the Church\u2019s salvation, as redemption! For O! how low was the Church sunk in the Adam fall! The image […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-j-c-philpot","category-justification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5823","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=5823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5824,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5823\/revisions\/5824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}