{"id":3850,"date":"2014-10-22T09:07:48","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T14:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/?p=3850"},"modified":"2014-10-22T09:07:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T14:07:48","slug":"luke-chapter-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/?p=3850","title":{"rendered":"Luke Chapter 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3812\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Luke.jpg?resize=288%2C217\" alt=\"Luke\" width=\"288\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Luke.jpg?w=288 288w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Luke.jpg?resize=200%2C150 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/>Today as we read chapter 3 of the Gospel of Luke we notice Jesus is now 30 years old.\u00a0 We are introduced again to John the Baptist as he preaches repentance and baptism.\u00a0 John required \u201cFruit\u201d proof of life before baptism.\u00a0 Are you and I living a \u201cproof of repentance\u201d life?\u00a0 When salvation happens you\u2019re transformed into a new creation in Christ and your life should change.\u00a0 There should be some indications of the new life.\u00a0 A prayer does not make one saved, the spirit that convicts and then invades one\u2019s life makes one saved.<\/p>\n<p>Here we see the start of Jesus\u2019 earthly ministry.\u00a0 This is the start of His journey to gain disciples and to die on the cross.\u00a0 Christ\u2019 purpose in life was to glorify the Father and die on the cross.\u00a0 In Christ our purpose is to glory the Father and to take up our cross.\u00a0 You are a new creation in Christ, let Him shine through you.<\/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-3850","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\/3850","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=3850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3851,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850\/revisions\/3851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}