{"id":2929,"date":"2014-09-02T12:31:54","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T17:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/?p=2929"},"modified":"2014-09-02T12:31:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T17:31:54","slug":"philippians-chapter-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/?p=2929","title":{"rendered":"Philippians Chapter 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Philippians.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2923\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Philippians-300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"Philippians\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Philippians.jpg?resize=300%2C300 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Philippians.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Philippians.jpg?w=793 793w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We are directed to place no confidence in our flesh.\u00a0 Paul had so many earthly gifts as far as his education, sociological standing, and religiousness.\u00a0 Paul felt he had reasons to be proud.\u00a0 Regardless of all that Paul had and experienced, he relinquished them all for Christ.\u00a0 Paul considered everything in this world \u201cdung\u201d (human waste).\u00a0 Paul, never considered himself as one who had spiritually obtained perfection.\u00a0 Paul continued to press towards the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.\u00a0 Sanctification is a process that we continue in throughout our days on earth.\u00a0 The Bible calls us to mark anyone who would draw us away from our total commitment to following Christ.\u00a0 Mark those who would divide us and move us away from the mind of Christ.\u00a0 Stay committed to the things of Christ, which means saying no to some earthly time consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Life is about making someone a priority, and Jesus needs to be first in every way.<\/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-2929","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\/2929","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=2929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2930,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions\/2930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}