{"id":1256,"date":"2014-03-23T08:19:54","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T13:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2014-03-23T08:19:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T13:19:54","slug":"the-gospels-chronologically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/?p=1256","title":{"rendered":"The Gospels Chronologically"},"content":{"rendered":"

Luke, under the inspiration of God, calls the writing of this gospel a certainty.\u00a0\u00a0There were many writings in the first century but not all were deemed to be inspired Scripture.\u00a0\u00a0You hold in your hands this morning the certainty of what God desired for us to know and to grow thereby.\u00a0\u00a0Enjoy hearing from God today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Who is Theophilus?\u00a0\u00a0Not sure.\u00a0\u00a0His name means \u201clover of God\u201d, maybe it is written to all those who love the Lord.\u00a0\u00a0Others think like Dr. MacArthur shares, that it could be a well-known Roman dignitary.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The key to be blessed in and through this chapter is found in verse 37, \u201cwith God nothing will be impossible.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Did you really get that?\u00a0Walk in the ways of God, trust God and nothing can stop us from bringing glory to His name as we advance His kingdom and His church.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Today we looked at the miraculous birth of John the Baptist and of Jesus Christ.\u00a0\u00a0Age, biology, physiology, or any other natural way created by God can be altered by God who is creator of all.\u00a0\u00a0We call them miracles, God calls it another day as creator.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Why did, or would the people surrender to the baptism of John the Baptist?\u00a0\u00a0Dr John Piper in a sermon back in 1981 made this statement about John\u2019s Baptism:\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThis was a remarkable demand of John on his Jewish kinsmen. In the context in which John lived, baptism had one main significance among the Jews: it was the symbolic rite that proselytes had to go through to become Jewish. This made John’s baptism very offensive. It implied that unless the Jews were willing to repent, they were not really Jews and could not count on the promised blessings God had made to his chosen people. Or to put it another way, in calling\u00a0Jews<\/em>\u00a0to accept a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, John was telling them that they cannot rely on their Jewishness for salvation; they have to be changed in their heart toward God.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After a 400 year period of nothing from God, other than what had been written in the Old Testament, God sends John The Baptist to call the children of Israel to repent.\u00a0\u00a0With God it has always been about the heart and our need to be righteous inside and out.\u00a0\u00a0Come clean before God!<\/span><\/p>\n

Tomorrow, Lord Willing, we will read Matthew 1:1-17; Luke 3:23-38.\u00a0<\/span><\/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-1256","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":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}