{"id":4171,"date":"2014-12-24T10:59:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T16:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/?p=4171"},"modified":"2014-12-24T10:59:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T16:59:57","slug":"genesis-chapter-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/?p=4171","title":{"rendered":"Genesis Chapter 20"},"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>We are reading chapter 20 of Genesis today.\u00a0 What is up with Abraham?\u00a0 Here we see this man of God doing the same wrong task expecting, I am assuming, a different outcome.\u00a0 This is one reason I love scripture; it shares how real the people of God are.\u00a0 This is how you and I act way too often.\u00a0 Doing something over that we repented of before.\u00a0 We either have forgotten or just think it will work out different this time.\u00a0 It did work out by the way.\u00a0 God protected His covenant against the stupidity of Abraham and Sarah.\u00a0 Thank God for divine protection for His covenant people.\u00a0 All of us who are saved are part of the eternal covenant.\u00a0 Don\u2019t do things to temp God, but praise God that, as His people we are kept from temptation and protected as we live for His glory.<\/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-4171","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\/4171","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=4171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4172,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions\/4172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}