{"id":2401,"date":"2019-02-24T23:05:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T23:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=2401"},"modified":"2019-03-02T20:49:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T20:49:54","slug":"total-depravity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=2401","title":{"rendered":"Total Depravity"},"content":{"rendered":"

From The Vanishing Conscience by John MacArthur, page 79.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The blind man can see no difference between a masterpiece of Titian or Raphael and the queen’s head on a village signboard. The deaf man cannot distinguish between a penny whistle and a cathedral organ. The very animals whose smell is most offensive to us have no idea that they are offensive and are not offensive to one another.\u00a0 And man, fallen man, I believe, can have no just idea what a vile thing sin is in the sight of that God whose handiwork is absolutely perfect.<\/em><\/p>\n

J. C. Ryle, Holiness (Durham, England: Evangelical Press,1979 reprint)<\/p>\n

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But we\u00a0are\u00a0all\u00a0as an unclean thing, and\u00a0all\u00a0our\u00a0righteousnesses\u00a0are\u00a0as\u00a0filthy\u00a0rags; and we\u00a0all\u00a0do fade as a leaf; and\u00a0our\u00a0iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.<\/em>\u00a0 Isaiah 64:6<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is\u00a0none\u00a0that\u00a0understandeth, there is\u00a0none\u00a0that\u00a0seeketh\u00a0after\u00a0God.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable;\u00a0there\u00a0is\u00a0none\u00a0that doeth\u00a0good, no, not one.\u00a0<\/em> Romans 3:11&12<\/p>\n

But\u00a0the\u00a0natural\u00a0man\u00a0receiveth\u00a0not\u00a0the\u00a0things of\u00a0the\u00a0Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.\u00a0<\/em> I Corinthians 2:14<\/strong><\/p>\n

No man can come to me (Jesus Christ),\u00a0except\u00a0the\u00a0Father which hath sent me\u00a0draw\u00a0him………. John 6:44<\/em><\/p>\n

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In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy,\u00a0is\u00a0the LORD of hosts: the whole earth\u00a0is\u00a0full of his glory.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.<\/em><\/p>\n

Then said I, Woe\u00a0is\u00a0me! for I am undone; because I\u00a0am\u00a0a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand,\u00a0which\u00a0he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>And he laid\u00a0it\u00a0upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.\u00a0 Isaiah 6:1-7<\/em><\/p>\n

Come\u00a0now,\u00a0and\u00a0let\u00a0us\u00a0reason\u00a0together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.\u00a0<\/em> Isaiah 1:18<\/strong><\/p>\n

Until we see the King as He is, we will not see ourselves as we are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Vanishing Conscience by John MacArthur, page 79. The blind man can see no difference between a masterpiece of Titian or Raphael and the queen’s head on a village signboard. The deaf man cannot distinguish between a penny whistle and a cathedral organ. The very animals whose smell is most offensive to us have … Continue reading Total Depravity<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2401"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2417,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions\/2417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}