{"id":695,"date":"2011-07-14T22:38:06","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T22:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=695"},"modified":"2011-07-14T22:38:06","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T22:38:06","slug":"recognizing-leprosy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=695","title":{"rendered":"Recognizing Leprosy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Recognizing Leprosy<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cAnd there came a leper to Him\u2026(<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Mark%201.40\">Mark 1:40<\/a>).\u201d<br \/>\nAs I looked at this passage of scripture I thought to myself, \u2018not many people in this<br \/>\ncountry think too much or even know very much about this disease of leprosy\u2019. I<br \/>\nwondered and noted that this is exactly what people think about sin in our day\u2026that<br \/>\nis they DON\u2019T THINK ABOUT IT. It is in some one else, it is in a far away country<br \/>\nand does not apply directly to me\u2026it\u2019s a third world country problem; so they say<br \/>\nabout leprosy, so I say about you who know nothing of the blackness and corruption<br \/>\nwithin our own hearts! Oh may the blessed Holy Spirit cause us to be made aware of<br \/>\nthe iniquity within and the vileness that permeates all that we do! Then and only<br \/>\nthen will we react the same way this poor leper did\u2026\u2019came to Him, beseeching Him<br \/>\nand kneeling down to Him and saying to Him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me<br \/>\nclean\u2019! Clean, whole, forgiven and this done so \u2018immediately; that\u2019s what I want,<br \/>\nthat\u2019s what I need. Have you been made to see this is you, this is what God sees\u2019<br \/>\nwhen He looks at you and I without the blood of Christ over us, in us and for us?<br \/>\nJust because sin is something we may think is small or insignificant doesn\u2019t mean it<br \/>\nwon\u2019t throw you head long into Hell itself! Come to Him my friend, Come to Him<br \/>\nbowing and owning His sovereign right to damn you or cleanse you; may He \u2018will\u2019<br \/>\nyour cleansing today for His great name\u2019s sake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recognizing Leprosy \u201cAnd there came a leper to Him\u2026(Mark 1:40).\u201d As I looked at this passage of scripture I thought to myself, \u2018not many people in this country think too much or even know very much about this disease of leprosy\u2019. I wondered and noted that this is exactly what people think about sin in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-drew-dietz","category-total-depravity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","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=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}