Paul describes a world in the first century AD that we are living in today.\u00a0 I saw that world played out on the news this morning.\u00a0 Mankind in some ways has gotten worse but the inherent problem is still the same, we want to be God and the center of the universe.\u00a0 This was the problem with Adam and Eve.\u00a0 Pride is our problem and the answer to our decade is to humbly surrender to God\u2019s Holy Word.\u00a0 As Paul said we have a form of godliness but no power in Christ.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because we are not surrendering to the knowledge of God found in God\u2019s Word.<\/p>\n
The causation of our situation is twofold:\u00a0 First, we are our own worst enemy and to tell ourselves no about anything is difficult.\u00a0 Self-discipline as a whole is missing and has been totally replaced by self-gratification.\u00a0 To help us we have created a banner that reads: God wants me happy, after all He is my Heavenly Father.\u00a0 We\u2019ve missed the whole goal of bringing honor and glory to God and not the other way around.\u00a0 The second problem is the verse where Paul shares with us that all that live godly will suffer persecution.\u00a0 So the conclusion for the Christian life is, I don\u2019t get what I want and others will be mad at me.\u00a0 Yes!\u00a0 The reward is that God will be glorified and His power will work and move in your life.<\/p>\n
God does desire to bless us and work in us, but we cannot make it about us.\u00a0 The answer is to stand together and strong for God\u2019s glory in God\u2019s Word.\u00a0 Continue to grow by His Word and continue to stand on His Word.\u00a0 God will bless you beyond your understanding in ways we can only experience walking in His Word and His Spirit.<\/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-2305","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\/2305","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=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2306,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions\/2306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}