{"id":5874,"date":"2020-11-17T10:31:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T10:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5874"},"modified":"2020-11-17T10:31:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T10:31:57","slug":"%ef%bb%bfthe-poison-fang-of-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5874","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffThe poison fang of sin!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The poison fang of sin!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

We must go down into the depths of the fall<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to know what our hearts are, and what they are<\/p>\n\n\n\n

capable of\u2014we must have the keen knife of God<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to cut deep gashes in our conscience and lay<\/p>\n\n\n\n

bare the evil that lies so deeply imbedded in<\/p>\n\n\n\n

our carnal mind\u2014before we can enter into and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

experience the beauty and blessedness of<\/p>\n\n\n\n

salvation by grace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrom the sole of the foot even unto the head<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 there is no soundness in it\u2014but wounds, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 bruises, and putrefying sores\u2014they have not<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 with ointment.\u201d Isaiah 1:6<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the Church of God fell in Adam, she fell with<\/p>\n\n\n\n

a crash which broke every bone and bruised her<\/p>\n\n\n\n

flesh with wounds which are ulcerated from head to toe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her understanding, her conscience, and her<\/p>\n\n\n\n

affections were all fearfully maimed . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  her understanding was blinded;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  her conscience stupefied;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  her affections alienated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every mental faculty thus became perverted and distorted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Adam fell into sin and temptation\u2014sin rushed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

into every faculty of body and soul\u2014and penetrated<\/p>\n\n\n\n

into the inmost recesses of his being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As when a man is bitten by a poisonous serpent,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the venom courses through every artery and vein,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and he dies a corrupted mass from head to foot;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

so did the poison fang of sin penetrate into<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adam\u2019s inmost soul and body, and infect him<\/p>\n\n\n\n

with its venom from the sole to the crown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it is only as sin\u2019s desperate and malignant<\/p>\n\n\n\n

character is opened up by the Holy Spirit that it<\/p>\n\n\n\n

is really seen, felt, grieved under, and mourned<\/p>\n\n\n\n

over as indeed a most dreadful and fearful reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe whole head is sick\u2014and the whole heart faint.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every thought, word, and action is polluted by sin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every mental faculty is depraved . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  the will chooses evil;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  the affections cleave to earthly things;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  the memory, like a broken sieve,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      retains the bad and lets fall the good;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  the judgment, like a bribed or drunken judge,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      pronounces heedless or wrong decisions;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  the conscience, like an opium eater, lies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      asleep and drugged in stupefied silence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The poison fang of sin! J.C.Philpot We must go down into the depths of the fall to know what our hearts are, and what they are capable of\u2014we must have the keen knife of God to cut deep gashes in our conscience and lay bare the evil that lies so deeply imbedded in our carnal […]<\/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-5874","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\/5874","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=5874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5875,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5874\/revisions\/5875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}