{"id":799,"date":"2011-07-15T04:21:27","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T04:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=799"},"modified":"2011-07-15T04:21:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T04:21:27","slug":"peace-peace-j-c-philpot-from-his-%e2%80%98reviews%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=799","title":{"rendered":"Peace, peace! (J. C. Philpot, from his \u2018Reviews\u2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>They dress the wound of My people as though<br \/>\nit were not serious. \u201c<strong>Peace, peace!<\/strong>\u201d they say,<br \/>\nwhen there is no peace.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Jeremiah%208.11\">Jeremiah 8:11<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How Jeremiah testifies against those prophets<br \/>\nwho prophesy\u00a0<strong>smooth things<\/strong>\u2014who prophesy<br \/>\ndeceits\u2014who know not the way of the Lord,<br \/>\nnor have walked in His counsel.<br \/>\nThere is no greater mark of false ministers given<br \/>\nin the word of truth, than healing the wound of God\u2019s<br \/>\npeople slightly, saying, \u201c<strong>Peace, peace!<\/strong>\u201d when there<br \/>\nis no peace.<br \/>\nIf we carefully read the book of Jeremiah, we shall<br \/>\nsee that the great sin and the chief deception of all<br \/>\nthe false prophets who sprang up in scores during the<br \/>\nperiod of his ministry, was to build up the people in a<br \/>\nfalse hope\u2014to assure them that they had no reason<br \/>\nto fear the judgments of God\u2014that the Lord would<br \/>\nnot execute against them what He threatened. They<br \/>\ntherefore hardened the people in sin and disobedience,<br \/>\nled them to trifle with and despise the judgments of God,<br \/>\nand built them up in a false confidence that, because they<br \/>\nwere the people of God by external profession, they were<br \/>\nHis also by regenerating grace.<br \/>\nIf our eyes were fully open to see the effect of the false<br \/>\nteaching of our day, we would see it equally dishonoring<br \/>\nto God\u2014and\u00a0<strong>pregnant with equally awful consequences<\/strong>.<br \/>\nWe would see hundreds of dead professors built up<br \/>\nwithout a foundation of\u00a0<strong>repentance <\/strong>toward God. We<br \/>\nwould see\u00a0<strong>sin <\/strong>made a little matter of\u2014the awful anger<br \/>\nof the Almighty against it, and His dreadful indignation<br \/>\nagainst transgressors passed by as a thing of little<br \/>\nimportance. We would see the strait and narrow path<br \/>\nwidened out in all directions\u2014and the distinguishing<br \/>\ntruths of the gospel beaten down and amalgamated<br \/>\nwith the grossest errors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They dress the wound of My people as though it were not serious. \u201cPeace, peace!\u201d they say, when there is no peace.\u00a0Jeremiah 8:11 How Jeremiah testifies against those prophets who prophesy\u00a0smooth things\u2014who prophesy deceits\u2014who know not the way of the Lord, nor have walked in His counsel. There is no greater mark of false ministers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-j-c-philpot","category-false-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","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=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}