{"id":981,"date":"2011-07-15T08:09:55","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T08:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=981"},"modified":"2011-07-15T08:09:55","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T08:09:55","slug":"sheep-or-swine-john-ensor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=981","title":{"rendered":"Sheep or swine? (John Ensor)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sheep <\/strong><strong>or<\/strong><strong> swine?<\/strong><strong> <\/strong>(John Ensor)<br \/>\n\u201cThe\u00a0<strong>swine<\/strong> that has been washed returns to\u00a0wallow in the mire.\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/2%20Peter%202.22\">2 Peter 2:22<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Sheep <\/strong>and<strong> swine<\/strong> can both end up in the mire. Yet the essential difference in their two natures is quite visible from the reaction each has to its fallen condition. While\u00a0<strong>sheep <\/strong>do stray and stumble into the mire, they quickly loathe the situation and struggle to get free. They may be dirty, but they desire to be clean. They may be stuck, but they bleat for their shepherd to come and save them out of the muck. But\u00a0<strong>swine<\/strong>, in keeping with their nature, wallow in the muck, content to stay there all day. \u201cThe\u00a0<strong>swine<\/strong> that has been washed returns to\u00a0wallow in the mire.\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/2%20Peter%202.22\">2 Peter 2:22<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheep or swine? (John Ensor) \u201cThe\u00a0swine that has been washed returns to\u00a0wallow in the mire.\u201d\u00a02 Peter 2:22 Sheep and swine can both end up in the mire. Yet the essential difference in their two natures is quite visible from the reaction each has to its fallen condition. While\u00a0sheep do stray and stumble into the mire, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-false-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","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=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":982,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}