{"id":985,"date":"2011-07-15T08:11:44","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T08:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=985"},"modified":"2011-07-15T08:11:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T08:11:44","slug":"so-many-truly-sincere-and-religious-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=985","title":{"rendered":"So many truly sincere and religious people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>So many truly sincere and religious people<\/strong><br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracegems.org\/Philpot\/sermons.htm\">J. C. Philpot<\/a>, \u201cAnswers to Inquiries\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCornelius and all his family were\u00a0<strong>devout <\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>God-fearing<\/strong>; he\u00a0<strong>gave generously<\/strong> to those in<br \/>\nneed and\u00a0<strong>prayed to God regularly<\/strong>.\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Acts%2010.2\">Acts 10:2<\/a> Yet Cornelius and his family weren\u2019t saved! (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Acts%2011.14\">Acts 11:14<\/a>) \u2013A generous centurion build a synagogue. (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Luke%207.3-5\">Luke 7:3-5<\/a>)\u2013A young man keeps the commandments from his \u00a0 youth up. (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Luke%2018.21\">Luke 18:21<\/a>) -Balaam prophesies. (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Numbers%2023.16\">Numbers 23:16<\/a>)<br \/>\n\u2013Saul weeps. (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/1%20Samuel%2024.16\">1 Samuel 24:16<\/a>) \u2013Judas preaches the gospel. (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Matthew%2010.5-8\">Matthew 10:5-8<\/a>)<br \/>\nYet none of these men were saved! It is at times, enough to fill one\u2019s heart with mingled<br \/>\nastonishment and sorrow, to see\u00a0<strong>so many truly sincere and religious people<\/strong>, whose religion will leave them short of eternal life\u2014because they are destitute of saving grace.<\/p>\n<p>T<strong>o see so much . . . <\/strong>amiability,\u00a0 benevolence, \u00a0 devotedness,\u00a0 self-denial,\u00a0 liberality\u00a0 loveliness of character,\u00a0 integrity, \u00a0consistency of life, all inescapably dashed against the rock of inflexible justice, and there shattered and lost\u2014swallowed up with its unhappy possessors in the raging billows beneath\u2014such a sight, did \u00a0we not know that the Judge of the whole earth cannot do wrong, would indeed stagger us to the very center of our being!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many truly sincere and religious people (J. C. Philpot, \u201cAnswers to Inquiries\u201d) \u201cCornelius and all his family were\u00a0devout and\u00a0God-fearing; he\u00a0gave generously to those in need and\u00a0prayed to God regularly.\u201d\u00a0Acts 10:2 Yet Cornelius and his family weren\u2019t saved! (Acts 11:14) \u2013A generous centurion build a synagogue. (Luke 7:3-5)\u2013A young man keeps the commandments from his [&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-985","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\/985","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=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":986,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}