{"id":4150,"date":"2014-12-15T10:19:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T16:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/?p=4150"},"modified":"2014-12-15T10:19:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T16:19:31","slug":"genesis-chapter-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/?p=4150","title":{"rendered":"Genesis Chapter 13"},"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>Today we find ourselves reading Genesis chapter 13.<br \/>\nNotice what Abram did when he left Egypt.\u00a0 Abram went back to the last place he was close to God.\u00a0 Abram went back to Bethel where he had built an altar.\u00a0 Abram called unto God and found a restored relationship.\u00a0 We again see God moving Abram and taking care of his needs.\u00a0 We are so easily removed from the place where God wants us to be.\u00a0 As God blessed, the relationship between Lot and Abram became stressed.\u00a0 Some commentaries think Lot no longer looked up to Abram because of the way he behaved in Egypt.\u00a0 Abram suggested that they separate and Lot chose to move towards Egypt, a symbol of the world, and Lot also pitched his tent towards the world.\u00a0 What Lot saw in Egypt scared him because of their sin, but it also lured him because of his flesh.<br \/>\nWe must stay in the land of God, at the altar of God, where we can enjoy fellowship with God.<\/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-4150","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\/4150","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=4150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4151,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150\/revisions\/4151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}