{"id":110,"date":"2015-05-19T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/martyn-lloyd-jones-i-am-not-surprised-by-the-sin-in-the-world\/"},"modified":"2015-05-19T19:47:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T19:47:00","slug":"martyn-lloyd-jones-i-am-not-surprised-by-the-sin-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/martyn-lloyd-jones-i-am-not-surprised-by-the-sin-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Martyn Lloyd-Jones: &#8220;I am not surprised by the sin in the world&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t expect men to live decently and in order, I expect nothing but what I am seeing. Man is the slave of sin and of Satan, therefore he lives according to that whole position, and I am not surprised. I am not surprised at world wars, I am not surprised at atomic and hydrogen bombs, I am not surprised at adultery and lust, I am not surprised at theft and robbery, I am not surprised at juvenile delinquency and all the present moral muddle. I am not surprised, I expect it, I anticipate it, and if the would should turn against Christians and massacre us, I shall not be surprised. There is nothing too bad for man in sin. &#8220;I was born in sin, and shaped in iniquity&#8221; myself, and I know the plague of my own heart. I tremble to think what I might have been but for the grace of God. I am far from perfect, but oh, what I might have been! &#8220;I am what I am by the grace of God&#8221;! and I was so vile that nothing but the grace of God could lift me up out of it&#8221;. <i>I am Not Ashamed <\/i>p216-217<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t expect men to live decently and in order, I expect nothing but what I am seeing. Man is the slave of sin and of Satan, therefore he lives according to that whole position, and I am not surprised. I am not surprised at world wars, I am not surprised at atomic and hydrogen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}