{"id":4116,"date":"2014-12-02T10:53:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T16:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/?p=4116"},"modified":"2014-12-02T10:53:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T16:53:22","slug":"genesis-chapter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/?p=4116","title":{"rendered":"Genesis Chapter 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Genesis.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4114\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Genesis.jpg?resize=200%2C150\" alt=\"Genesis\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Every day the garden scenario plays out in our lives.\u00a0 First, God has placed you and me somewhere and has given us a task.\u00a0 You\u2019re gifted by God for a work and you are commanded to do the work.\u00a0 Secondly, we make choices each day in living out our obedience to God.\u00a0 God lays before us His word and direction for living and we must choose whether we will follow Him or not.\u00a0 We understand as Christians we are positionally saved and eternally loved by God.\u00a0 Salvation is not a daily choice.\u00a0 However, our willingness to walk in the spirit of God, may I call this our \u201cNew Testament Garden\u201d, or to walk outside the will of God in our flesh is a daily choice.\u00a0 We get down on Adam and Eve, yet we live away from the close walk God desires to have with us.\u00a0 Every day, even a <span data-term=\"goog_1972416579\">Tuesday<\/span>, we have to make a choice to follow Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s your garden where God has placed you?\u00a0 Live for Jesus where you are.<\/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-4116","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\/4116","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=4116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4117,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116\/revisions\/4117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}