{"id":6264,"date":"2022-10-11T12:49:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T12:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6264"},"modified":"2022-10-11T12:49:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T12:49:54","slug":"%ef%bb%bfmonsters-of-iniquity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6264","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffMonsters of iniquity!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Monsters of iniquity!<\/strong><br><em>Spurgeon\u2019s, \u201cSpots in Our Feasts of Charity\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, the depths of human sin!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sin is an incomprehensible thing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no water so deep but fish will swim in it;<br>no pond so foul but frogs will live in it;<br>no mire so filthy but swine will wallow in it, and<br>no sin so damnable but man will commit it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Men will even seek out ways and means<br>of making themselves more and more<br>proficient in the most filthy of vices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If in these times there should arise<strong>&nbsp;monsters<\/strong><strong><br>of iniquity<\/strong>, we must not be astonished, for long<br>practice of sin makes men proficient therein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The earth is ripening, and men\u2019s characters are<br>rotting to the uttermost degree of corruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We must expect to see more and more of<br>the boilings over of the sink of iniquity,<br>which lies in human nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christian, what might you have been, but<br>for God\u2019s distinguishing grace to you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why, might not you have been Judas?<br>Christian, is there any betterness in<br>your heart beyond the heart of Judas?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Judas was an apostle, mark you, a preacher,<br>a miracle-worker; he dipped his hand with<br>Jesus in the dish, and yet he sold him; and<br>why not you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLet him that thinks he stands, take heed<br>lest he fall.\u201d What another man has done you<br>may do; and there are no depths of wickedness<br>into which you might not have plunged had not<br>the preventing grace of God stopped your course.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monsters of iniquity!Spurgeon\u2019s, \u201cSpots in Our Feasts of Charity\u201d Oh, the depths of human sin! Sin is an incomprehensible thing! There is no water so deep but fish will swim in it;no pond so foul but frogs will live in it;no mire so filthy but swine will wallow in it, andno sin so damnable but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-h-spurgeon","category-total-depravity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6264","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=6264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6265,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6264\/revisions\/6265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}