{"id":716,"date":"2011-07-14T23:32:46","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T23:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=716"},"modified":"2011-07-14T23:32:46","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T23:32:46","slug":"he-died-for-his-patients-william-s-plumer-%e2%80%9cthe-rock-of-our-salvation%e2%80%9d-1867","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=716","title":{"rendered":"He died for His patients! (William S. Plumer, \u201cThe Rock of Our Salvation\u201d 1867)"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/strong>\u201cThe whole head is hurt, and the whole heart is sick. You are sick from head to foot\u2013covered with bruises, welts, and infected wounds!\u201d\u00a0Isaiah 1:5-6<\/a><\/p>\n

Often in Scripture, sin is spoken of as a disease, a sickness, a hurt.
\nChrist, as the great Physician, has the only sovereign balm.
\nSin is a\u00a0dreadful <\/strong>disease! Yes, it is the very\u00a0worst <\/strong>disease! It was the\u00a0first<\/strong>, and so is theoldest <\/strong>malady. It infected man very soon after his creation. For six thousand years sin has committed its ravages and been gaining inveteracy. No other disease is so old.
\nSin is also a\u00a0universal <\/strong>disease! Other maladies have slain their thousands; but sin has slain its millions! The whole world is a graveyard, full of death and corruption. No person ever lived without sin. As soon as we begin to live, we begin to transgress.
\nNot only is every man sick, but\u00a0our whole nature is diseased!<\/strong>
\nOur\u00a0understanding <\/strong>is darkened.
\nOur\u00a0memory <\/strong>is polluted.
\nThe\u00a0thoughts <\/strong>of our heart are only evil continually.
\nOur\u00a0throats <\/strong>are open graves.
\nOur\u00a0tongues <\/strong>practice deceit.<\/p>\n

The poison of vipers is on our\u00a0lips<\/strong>.
\nOur\u00a0mouths <\/strong>are full of cursing and bitterness.
\nOur\u00a0feet <\/strong>are swift to shed blood.
\nRuin and misery mark our\u00a0ways<\/strong>, and the way of peace we do not know.
\nOur\u00a0eyes<\/strong> behold vanity.
\nOur\u00a0hands <\/strong>are full of bribes and of blood.
\nOur\u00a0heart <\/strong>is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
\nWe\u00a0love <\/strong>darkness rather than light.<\/p>\n

We are utterly diseased with sin!
\nSin makes men spiritually blind, and deaf, and dumb, and lame, and lethargic. Sin is a terrible compilation of diseases. It is a rottenness in the bones. It is a maddening fever, a wasting consumption, a paralysis of all the powers. Human nature is wholly corrupt!
\nSin is a\u00a0perpetual <\/strong>disease. It rages day and night; on the sea and on the land; in the house of mirth and in the house of God.
\nSin is a\u00a0hereditary <\/strong>disease. We are conceived in sin and brought forth in iniquity.
\nSin is also\u00a0contagious<\/strong>. Sinners are enticers, seducers, corrupters.
\nSin is also the most\u00a0deceitful <\/strong>and\u00a0flattering <\/strong>disease. One of its strong delusions is, \u201cYou shall not die!\u201d See the throng of ungodly people marching to perdition\u2013the slaves of Satan, the servants of corruption, the enemies of God! Their mirth would make one think them to be the happiest of people\u2013and not, as they really are\u2013condemned criminals, on their way to the eternal prison-house of inflexible justice! Sin has its delusive dreams. The worse a man is, the better he thinks himself to be.
\nSin is the\u00a0worst <\/strong>disease, because it is the parent of all other diseases. But for sin, we would never have seen a human being in pain, or sicken, or die. Suffering and agony have one parent\u2013sin!
\nOther diseases are calamities\u2013but sin is a\u00a0wickedness<\/strong>! Sin is not a misfortune\u2013sin is a crime! It is a wicked thing to be a sinner. Transgression brings guilt. God is angry with the wicked every day. The more sinful anyone is\u2013the more is God displeased with him.
\nSin is the most\u00a0loathsome <\/strong>of all diseases. Pride is the worst kind of malady. No heart is so vile as a hard heart. No vileness compares with an evil heart of unbelief. No sight is so appalling as a sight of vile affections. Sin is horrible and abominable to God!
\nSin is also the most\u00a0dolorous <\/strong>disease. They multiply their sorrows\u2013who hasten after transgression. The most bitter cries that ever were heard\u2013were extorted by sin.
\nOther diseases do but kill the body\u2013but sin\u00a0kills soul and body in hell forever!<\/strong> Sin will rage more violently beyond the tomb than on earth. It will be followed by eternal regrets and reproaches, eternal weeping and wailing, eternal wrath and anguish!
\nSin\u00a0cannot be cured <\/strong>by any means of human devising. All reformations can never cure the heart. \u201cI fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess,\u201d said the Pharisee\u2013while spiritual wickedness reigned within. We may weep and lament over our sins\u2013but that will neither dethrone sin nor atone for it! Our tears are nothing; our works are nothing; all our righteous deeds are as filthy rags; they are of no avail.<\/p>\n

The only remedy for sin<\/strong> is found only in Jesus! He is the Physician of souls. None but He can cure a sin-sick soul. He makes no charge for all His cures!\u00a0He died for His patients!<\/strong> His blood cleanses from all sin. With His stripes we are healed. Christ\u2019s death atones. By His sufferings we have remission of sin. In all cases where it is applied,\u00a0the gospel remedy<\/strong> is sovereign and effectual. It availed for the dying thief, for the bloody Saul of Tarsus, for the cruel jailor, and for millions and millions who once esteemed themselves as vile, and as worthy of everlasting death!<\/p>\n

And now, poor, sin-sick, dying soul\u2013flee to this Physician, submit your case to Him, and seek for the healing remedy! If you stay away, you must die! \u201cThe wages of sin is death.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe blood of Jesus cleanses us from every sin!\u201d\u00a01 John 1:7<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe whole head is hurt, and the whole heart is sick. You are sick from head to foot\u2013covered with bruises, welts, and infected wounds!\u201d\u00a0Isaiah 1:5-6 Often in Scripture, sin is spoken of as a disease, a sickness, a hurt. Christ, as the great Physician, has the only sovereign balm. Sin is a\u00a0dreadful disease! Yes, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-william-s-plumer","category-total-depravity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","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=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}