{"id":3203,"date":"2014-09-17T10:41:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T15:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/?p=3203"},"modified":"2014-09-17T10:41:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T15:41:02","slug":"hebrew-chapter-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/?p=3203","title":{"rendered":"Hebrew Chapter 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hebrews\"<\/a>We are purged from dead works to serve a living God.\u00a0 When we were lost, unsaved, not born again, we may have done moral works but we could not do righteous works unto God.\u00a0 Now that we are transformed and have received the new life by the Spirit of God we can do good works for God.\u00a0 Yes, in our lost-ness we can and did live somewhat moral but we behaved through fleshly means of discipline and consequences.\u00a0 Morality can be taught, and should be taught, and the Ten Commandments are a great guideline. However, the power of committing sin was broken when we got saved, and now we have a desire to do the law for God\u2019s honor.\u00a0 The only thing the law could effectively do was demonstrate to myself that I was a law breaking sinner in need of a savior.\u00a0 In Christ comes life and I do not live to please the law, but to please my heavenly Father who gave the law.\u00a0 I no longer live in fear of consequences, but because God loves me, I desire to please Him by demonstrating my love through keeping His Word.<\/p>\n

Bottom line, my sins have been purged! I have been purified, made clean by the blood of Christ and nothing can hold me back.\u00a0 Live today as a forgiven child of God who has the privilege and opportunity to do righteous works 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-3203","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\/3203","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=3203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3204,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203\/revisions\/3204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}