{"id":7228,"date":"2026-08-23T11:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T11:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=7228"},"modified":"2026-08-23T11:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T11:20:18","slug":"struggling-against-the-power-of-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=7228","title":{"rendered":"Struggling against the power of sin?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Struggling against the power of sin?<\/strong><br><br>How many poor souls are&nbsp;<strong>struggling against the<\/strong><strong><br>power of sin<\/strong>, and yet never get any victory over it!<br><br>How many are daily led captive by . . .<br>&nbsp; the lusts of the flesh,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;the love of the world,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;and the pride of life,<br>and never get any victory over them!<br><br>How many fight and grapple with tears, vows,<br>and strong resolutions against their besetting<br>sins, who are still entangled and overcome by<br>them again and again!&nbsp;<strong>Now, why is this?<\/strong><br><br>Because they do not know the secret of spiritual<br>strength against, and spiritual victory over them.<br><br>It is only by virtue of a living union with the<br>Lord Jesus Christ\u2014drinking into His sufferings<br>and death\u2014and receiving out of His fullness,<br>that we can gain any victory over . . .<br>&nbsp; the world,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;sin,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;death,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;or hell.<br><br>Sin is never really or effectually subdued in any other way.<br><br>It is not by legalistic strivings and earnest resolutions,<br>vows, and tears\u2014the vain struggle of \u2018religious flesh\u2019<br>to subdue \u2018sinful flesh\u2019\u2014that can overcome sin.<br><br>But it is by a believing acquaintance with, and a<br>spiritual entrance into the sufferings and sorrows<br>of the Son of God\u2014having a living faith in Him,<br>and receiving out of His fullness supplies of grace<br>and strength.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>J.C.Philpot<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Struggling against the power of sin? How many poor souls are&nbsp;struggling against thepower of sin, and yet never get any victory over it! How many are daily led captive by . . .&nbsp; the lusts of the flesh,&nbsp;&nbsp;the love of the world,&nbsp;&nbsp;and the pride of life,and never get any victory over them! How many fight [&hellip;]<\/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-7228","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\/7228","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=7228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7229,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7228\/revisions\/7229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}