{"id":1827,"date":"2014-06-04T09:33:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T14:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/?p=1827"},"modified":"2014-06-04T09:33:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T14:33:45","slug":"proverbs-chapter-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/?p=1827","title":{"rendered":"Proverbs Chapter 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Ten Commandments is stressed here.\u00a0 We are commanded not to covet.\u00a0 The USA has a coveting problem; we desire and desire and desire what someone else has.\u00a0 It is very hard to teach our children what a need really is.\u00a0 Matthew<span data-term=\"goog_684136707\">6:33<\/span>\u00a0calls us to seek God first, which means above everything.\u00a0 But I want it!\u00a0 Do I dare bring in the whole call to deny ourselves and take up our cross and follow Christ?\u00a0 The question really is do you want God more?<\/p>\n<p>Most overweight situations happen because we eat what we desire without any idea of denying ourselves.\u00a0 Most debt is because we want it now and cannot tell ourselves no.\u00a0 Yes it is okay to have nice things but nice things should not have you.\u00a0 The USA has the funds to reach the world for Christ but we want something that will bring us self-enjoyment.\u00a0 How many souls could be won if we sold a little of our fun?<\/p>\n<p>The other aspect of coveting is pride.\u00a0 Most of what we want is to make a statement of what we can afford.\u00a0 What has that status symbol cost you?<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy what you have unless you robbed God to obtain it or it steals you away from serving and glorifying 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-1827","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\/1827","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=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1830,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions\/1830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}