{"id":2531,"date":"2014-08-07T11:42:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T16:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/?p=2531"},"modified":"2014-08-07T11:42:49","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T16:42:49","slug":"mark-chapter-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/?p=2531","title":{"rendered":"Mark Chapter 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/bible.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2315\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/bible.png?resize=341%2C311\" alt=\"bible\" width=\"341\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/bible.png?w=341 341w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/bible.png?resize=300%2C274 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a>Today we are reading chapter 14, verses 1-27 together.\u00a0 This portion of scripture shows the persuasion of money.\u00a0 One lady gave something very costly as a sacrifice for Jesus and everyone could not understand using this expensive oil in this way.\u00a0 Money is something we desire to hold on to and some will even say, \u201cGod does not want you to give it all\u201d.\u00a0 What if God wants you to sell the land, the house or the car and use it for the spreading of the gospel of Christ?\u00a0 Would you be willing to take the pressure from family and friends trying to stop you from being obedient?\u00a0 The other person we remember is\u00a0Judas\u00a0because\u00a0he sold out Jesus for a little money.\u00a0 Money is the barometer of our trust and faith in God.\u00a0 I say that because money is connected to everything, and Jesus talked more about money than anything else.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2532,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions\/2532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}