{"id":7349,"date":"2026-10-26T05:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T05:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=7349"},"modified":"2026-10-26T05:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T05:15:08","slug":"and-the-idols-he-shall-utterly-abolished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=7349","title":{"rendered":"And the idols He shall utterly abolished."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cAnd the idols He shall utterly abolished.<\/strong>\u201c<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Isaiah 2:18<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is, then, a time to break down these<br>idols which our fallen nature has set up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And have not we experienced some measure of<br>this breaking down, both externally and internally?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have not our idols been in a measure smashed<br>before our eyes, our prospects in life cut up and<br>destroyed, our airy visions of earthly happiness<br>and our romantic paradises dissolved into thin air,<br>our creature-hopes dashed, our youthful affections<br>blighted, and the objects from which we had fondly<br>hoped to reap an enduring harvest of delight<br>removed from our eyes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And likewise, as to&nbsp;<strong>our religion<\/strong>&nbsp;. . .<br>&nbsp; our good opinion of ourselves,<br>&nbsp; our piety and holiness,<br>&nbsp; our wisdom and our knowledge,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;our understanding and our abilities,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;our consistency and uprightness;<br>have they not all been broken down, and<br>made a heap of ruins before our eyes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd the idols He shall utterly abolished.\u201c&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Isaiah 2:18 There is, then, a time to break down theseidols which our fallen nature has set up. And have not we experienced some measure ofthis breaking down, both externally and internally? Have not our idols been in a measure smashedbefore our eyes, our prospects in life cut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idolatry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7349","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=7349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7350,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7349\/revisions\/7350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}