{"id":4229,"date":"2015-01-15T08:51:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T14:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/?p=4229"},"modified":"2015-01-15T08:51:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T14:51:38","slug":"genesis-chapter-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/?p=4229","title":{"rendered":"Genesis Chapter 38"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Genesis.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4114\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Genesis.jpg?resize=200%2C150\" alt=\"Genesis\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The Bible tells it like it is, and at times we wish it did not state so much, and on other topics we wished it told us a little more.\u00a0 This chapter is one where you see much happening wrongly because of a rebellious heart.\u00a0 One is stubborn to force the marriage of the son and the son is stubborn not to consummate the marriage.\u00a0 We see Tamar taking matters in her own hands and playing the Harlot.\u00a0 Anytime we take matters away from God, and take them upon ourselves, we play the Harlot.\u00a0 We cheat on God and our covenant with our Savior.\u00a0 We must watch out for a rebellious spirit.\u00a0 The Bible said that a rebellious spirit is as the spirit of witchcraft.\u00a0 We must surrender our pride and our self-centered ways.\u00a0 Live for the purpose of loving God through obedience, and for the joy of bringing glory to 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-4229","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\/4229","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=4229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4230,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions\/4230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}