{"id":5772,"date":"2020-08-03T01:25:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T01:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5772"},"modified":"2020-08-03T01:25:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T01:25:19","slug":"%ef%bb%bfas-many-heads-as-a-hydra-and-as-many-lives-as-a-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5772","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffAs many heads as a Hydra, and as many lives as a cat!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>As many heads as a Hydra, and as many lives as a cat!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(John Newton)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beware of SELF! This is the worst enemy we have to deal with!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Self-will,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>self-wisdom,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>self-righteousness,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>self-seeking,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>self-dependence,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and self-boasting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a large family \u2014 and I cannot count up all the branches! They are all nearly related to Satan \u2014 and they are all a sworn enemy to our peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we lie low \u2014 then the Lord will raise us up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But if we will be something \u2014 then His arm will surely pull us down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That monster SELF has as many heads as a Hydra, and as many lives as a cat! It is more than twenty-five years since I hoped it was fast nailed to the Cross! But alas, it is alive \u2014 and still mixing with and spoiling everything I do!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(N.B. The Hydra was a serpentine mythological water monster with many heads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For every head chopped off \u2014 the Hydra would re-grow a couple of new heads.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many heads as a Hydra, and as many lives as a cat! (John Newton) Beware of SELF! This is the worst enemy we have to deal with! Self-will, self-wisdom, self-righteousness, self-seeking, self-dependence, and self-boasting. It is a large family \u2014 and I cannot count up all the branches! They are all nearly related to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-john-newton","category-total-depravity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772","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=5772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5773,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772\/revisions\/5773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}