{"id":6678,"date":"2024-05-22T10:09:14","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T10:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6678"},"modified":"2024-05-22T10:09:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T10:09:14","slug":"without-me-ye-can-do-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6678","title":{"rendered":"Without Me ye can do nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>\u201cWithout Me ye can do nothing.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>John 15:5<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We should apply these words of our Savior as broadly as possible to all things spiritual. \u2014 \u201c<em>Without me ye can do nothing!<\/em>\u201d \u201c<em>Without me ye<\/em>\u201d cannot believe. \u201c<em>Without me ye<\/em>\u201d cannot pray. \u201c<em>Without me ye<\/em>\u201d cannot watch. \u201c<em>Without me ye<\/em>\u201d cannot learn, know, or understand anything spiritual. \u201c<em>Without me ye<\/em>\u201d cannot know the meaning of my Word. \u201c<em>Without me ye<\/em>\u201d cannot preach. \u201c<em>Without me ye<\/em>\u201d cannot worship. \u201c<em>Without me ye<\/em>\u201d cannot hear me speak by the gospel.&nbsp; \u201c<em>Without me ye<\/em>\u201d cannot persevere. \u201c<em>Without me ye<\/em>\u201d cannot withstand the devil. \u201c<em>Without me ye<\/em>\u201d cannot resist temptation. \u201c<em>Without me ye<\/em>\u201d cannot resist sin. \u201c<em>Without me ye<\/em>\u201d cannot stand. \u201c<em>Without me ye<\/em>\u201d cannot recover when fallen. \u201c<em>Without me ye can do nothing!<\/em>\u201d \u2014 \u201c<em>So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;(Romans 9:16).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Outward circumstances, unaccompanied with inward grace, leave men just as they find them. Only Christ can change the heart. Only Christ can convert the sinner. Only Christ can save. . \u2014 \u201c<em>Without me ye can do nothing!<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; As these words apply to all men, believers and unbelievers, they are especially applicable to preachers. Let every gospel preacher understand that the Lord Jesus is speaking to him, when he says, \u201c<em>Without me ye can do nothing.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don Fortner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWithout Me ye can do nothing.\u201d John 15:5 We should apply these words of our Savior as broadly as possible to all things spiritual. \u2014 \u201cWithout me ye can do nothing!\u201d \u201cWithout me ye\u201d cannot believe. \u201cWithout me ye\u201d cannot pray. \u201cWithout me ye\u201d cannot watch. \u201cWithout me ye\u201d cannot learn, know, or understand anything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-don-fortner","category-spiritual-inability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678","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=6678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6679,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678\/revisions\/6679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}