{"id":2818,"date":"2014-08-25T12:05:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T17:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2014-08-25T12:05:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T17:05:24","slug":"galatians-chapter-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/?p=2818","title":{"rendered":"Galatians Chapter 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"letter-to-the-galatians\"Are you free or living in bondage not intended for you? Paul starts out this portion of scripture talking about heirs being like servants.\u00a0 They may be an heir, but there are things they must learn to function in life just as everyone else does.\u00a0 When we are a child\u00a0our life seems to be regulated by rules.\u00a0 We live under the authority of someone else.\u00a0 However when we\u00a0grow up,\u00a0we become stewards of our own time and actions.\u00a0 Paul had a desire for the people to grow into an understanding of their position as sons of God who have the privilege of calling God, Abba Father.\u00a0 Abba Father is a term of endearment that is seen in a father son relationship.\u00a0 Nevertheless the people saw their relationship yet return to bondage of sin.\u00a0 They did not live as heirs but servants under laws.\u00a0 Freedom in Christ as an heir to the Kingdom of God is to be enjoyed free of Sin, free in God\u2019s never ending love and our everlasting position as His child.\u00a0 Living and growing in sanctification and in my understanding as God\u2019s child brings peace and enjoyment of life.\u00a0 Living in sin or forced behavior changes, without the empowerment of the Spirit, brings sadness and slavery.\u00a0 Yes, there are things I will not stoop down out of my role as a child of God and do! Not because I can\u2019t as a Christian, but because I am a Christian.\u00a0 I am better than all the bondages of sin.<\/p>\n

In all my disobedient behavior my heavenly Father continues to reprove me and teach me how I should behave. And because I am not defiant to the leading of Scripture and the Spirit of God, I still receive the blessings of my heavenly Father, even in my imperfection.\u00a0 I am a blessed man to the glory of God.\u00a0 Blessed not because of me, but because of my position as a child of the one true King.<\/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-2818","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\/2818","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=2818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2819,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions\/2819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}