{"id":1418,"date":"2014-04-25T14:12:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T19:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2014-04-25T14:12:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T19:12:04","slug":"matthew-chapter-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/?p=1418","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Chapter 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Matthew\u00a0chapter 17<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Six days: \u201cMark 9:2, has the same number; but Luke says in Luke\u00a09:28, after eight days. The reason\u00a0for this difference seems to be the following: Matthew and Mark reckon the days from that mentioned in the preceding chapter, to that mentioned in this; Luke includes both days, as well as the six intermediate: hence, the one makes eight, the other six, without any contradiction. \u201c (Adam Clarks Notes)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">The miracle of the transformation is such a special time between Jesus and His Father.\u00a0\u00a0This was such a special time for Peter, James and John.\u00a0\u00a0A glorious moment like this will be ours when we enter the throne room of heaven.\u00a0\u00a0I believe when we stand before heaven it will be a moment of complete surrender as we are stricken by His holiness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Do you really believe and have a deep faith?\u00a0\u00a0A little faith can move a mountain and the apostles could not heal this individual.\u00a0\u00a0Jesus said this power is produced through prayer and fasting, the weakest two elements found in the church today.\u00a0\u00a0Why do we not have power?\u00a0\u00a0We do not desire a closer walk with Christ through prayer and fasting, it is just not that important to surrender and sacrifice for.\u00a0\u00a0Both of these are key elements to having a greater relationship with God.\u00a0\u00a0Faith comes also by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.\u00a0\u00a0Having a time with the Lord is more important than anything else.\u00a0\u00a0It should not be one and done but continual throughout our moments, hours, days and weeks.\u00a0\u00a0Church, we have the ability to power up!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Are you short on your tax money this past week?\u00a0\u00a0Go fishing and open the first fish\u2019s mouth and find enough to pay the taxes.\u00a0\u00a0Taxes have been around as long as any city or organized people.\u00a0\u00a0Give what is due, but vote to change it if you\u2019re upset.\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-1418","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\/1418","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=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1419,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions\/1419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}