{"id":6003,"date":"2021-03-28T10:12:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T10:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6003"},"modified":"2021-03-28T10:12:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T10:12:59","slug":"%ef%bb%bfthe-penetrating-light-of-the-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6003","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffThe penetrating light of the Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The penetrating light of the Spirit<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

\u201cFor God . . . made His light shine in our hearts<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 to give us the light of the knowledge of the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 glory of God in the face of Christ.\u201d 2 Cor. 4:6<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut you have an anointing from the Holy One,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 and all of you know the truth.\u201d 1 John 2:20<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only saving light is the light of God shining<\/p>\n\n\n\n

into the soul\u2014giving us to see and know \u201cthe only<\/p>\n\n\n\n

true God, and Jesus Christ whom He has sent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A man may have the clearest light in his judgment,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and yet never have the penetrating light of the Spirit<\/p>\n\n\n\n

producing conviction in his soul. He may have the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

soundest knowledge of the doctrines of grace, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

see the harmonious scheme of salvation\u2014and yet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

never have by divine teaching, seen a holy God, nor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

have ever felt the spirituality of God\u2019s righteous law<\/p>\n\n\n\n

condemning him as a transgressor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we do not have this penetrating light of the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spirit, we shall be sure to go astray. We shall . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  be entangled in some error,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  plunge into some heresy,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  imbibe some doctrine of devils,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  drink into some dreadful delusion,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  or fall into some dreadful sin, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  have our faith shipwrecked forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A false light can but wreck us on the rocks of<\/p>\n\n\n\n

presumption or despair. But the light of divine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

life in the soul is accompanied with all the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

graces of the Spirit. It is . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  the light of the glory of God,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  the light of Jesus\u2019 countenance,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  and the light of the Spirit\u2019s teaching,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and therefore an infallible guide and guard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And this infallible pilot will guide the soul<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to whom it is given safe into the harbor of<\/p>\n\n\n\n

endless rest and peace.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The penetrating light of the Spirit J.C.Philpot \u201cFor God . . . made His light shine in our hearts  to give us the light of the knowledge of the  glory of God in the face of Christ.\u201d 2 Cor. 4:6 \u201cBut you have an anointing from the Holy One,  and all of you know the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,136,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-j-c-philpot","category-spiritual-inability","category-taught-of-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6003","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=6003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6004,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6003\/revisions\/6004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}