{"id":861,"date":"2011-07-15T06:25:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T06:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=861"},"modified":"2011-07-15T06:25:36","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T06:25:36","slug":"beware-of-religion-without-christ-mark-41-20-%e2%80%93-the-parable-of-the-sower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=861","title":{"rendered":"Beware of religion without Christ!   Mark 4:1-20 \u2013 The Parable of the Sower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Beware of religion without Christ<\/strong><strong>! \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Mark%204.1-20\">Mark 4:1-20<\/a> \u2013 The Parable of the Sower<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You may think, \u201cAll is well with my soul. No one could ever feel what I feel and experience what I have experienced and yet be lost.\u201d You ought to think again! False faith is a strong delusion, a delusion by which, in this parable, one in four who profess faith in Christ are dragged down to hell!<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0\u00a0 False faith may be greatly enlightened and knowledgeable of the gospel (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Heb.%206.4\">Heb. 6:4<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0\u00a0 False faith may greatly reform the outward life. \u2013 The Pharisees!<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0\u00a0 False faith may speak very well of Christ. \u2013 The Jews!<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0\u00a0 False faith may confess personal sins like Saul.<\/p>\n<p>5.\u00a0\u00a0 False faith may humble itself in sackcloth and ashes with Ahab.<\/p>\n<p>6.\u00a0\u00a0 False faith may repent in tears with Esau and Judas.<\/p>\n<p>7.\u00a0\u00a0 False faith may diligently perform religious works with the Jews.<\/p>\n<p>8.\u00a0\u00a0 False faith may be very generous and charitable, like Ananias and Sapphira.<\/p>\n<p>9.\u00a0\u00a0 False faith may tremble under the Word with Felix.<\/p>\n<p>10. False\u00a0 faith\u00a0 may\u00a0 experience\u00a0 great\u00a0\u00a0 things\u00a0 in\u00a0\u00a0 religion (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Heb.%206.1-4\">Heb. 6:1-4<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>11. False faith may enjoy great religious privileges with Lot\u2019s wife.<\/p>\n<p>12. False faith may preach, perform miracles, and cast out devils, like those mentioned by our Lord.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Mt%207.21-23\">Mt 7:21-23<\/a><\/p>\n<p>13. False faith may attain high office in the church like Diotrephes.<\/p>\n<p>14. False faith may walk with great preachers like Demas.<\/p>\n<p>15. May even be peaceful and carnally secure like the five foolish virgins.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beware of religion without Christ! \u00a0\u00a0Mark 4:1-20 \u2013 The Parable of the Sower You may think, \u201cAll is well with my soul. No one could ever feel what I feel and experience what I have experienced and yet be lost.\u201d You ought to think again! False faith is a strong delusion, a delusion by which, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-false-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","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=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":862,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions\/862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}