{"id":937,"date":"2011-07-15T07:29:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T07:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=937"},"modified":"2011-07-15T07:29:36","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T07:29:36","slug":"his-children-began-to-hiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=937","title":{"rendered":"His children began to hiss!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>His children began to hiss!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since I last wrote, I have preached in Abingdon Great Church, on Christmas evening. I preached the truth, I trust, to a very crowded congregation, supposed to be (sitting and standing, who were able to get in) about 5,000 people. I pleased the\u00a0<strong>believers<\/strong>; but\u00a0<strong>very much displeased the carnally-minded<\/strong>, who were never before so puzzled and confounded in all their lives! I spoke the truth faithfully, and so as all could hear; but I had no idea that the gospel would have given so much offence!\u00a0<strong>It is the truth that offends and disturbs Satan\u2019s kingdom!<\/strong> The neighboring clergymen, who are in darkness, say of me, \u201cAway with such a fellow from the earth; it is not fit that he should live! \u201cMy mind is not moved by the persecution. I believe if God has a work for me to do, I shall do it,\u00a0<strong>in spite of the devil and all his children!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nature<\/strong> is not changed, the\u00a0<strong>gospel<\/strong> is not changed, and\u00a0<strong>Christ<\/strong> is not changed. What reason is there why they should not hate the truth now, as much as in the time of the apostles? I never saw any fruits of my labors until I roused and disturbed the \u2018roaring lion\u2019. When, through the grace of God, I began to disturb his kingdom,\u00a0<strong>I soon found that<\/strong> <strong>his children began to hiss!<\/strong>The world and Satan hate believers.\u00a0<strong>The Pharisees hate me the most.<\/strong> I cut off all their rotten props, and all their fleshly devotion!<\/p>\n<p>It is not coming near to the truth, it is not the \u2018mere letter\u2019 of the gospel, that will convert men; but the Holy Spirit. Make the Word of God your study.\u00a0<strong>Pin your faith to no man\u2019s views!<\/strong> I scarcely read any other book. Beware of those who want to\u00a0<strong>exalt man<\/strong> in any manner.<\/p>\n<p>William Tiptaft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His children began to hiss! Since I last wrote, I have preached in Abingdon Great Church, on Christmas evening. I preached the truth, I trust, to a very crowded congregation, supposed to be (sitting and standing, who were able to get in) about 5,000 people. I pleased the\u00a0believers; but\u00a0very much displeased the carnally-minded, who were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-william-tiptaff","category-gospel-offence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","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=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":939,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions\/939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}