{"id":4294,"date":"2015-02-05T11:14:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T17:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/?p=4294"},"modified":"2015-02-05T11:14:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T17:14:56","slug":"exodus-chapter-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/?p=4294","title":{"rendered":"Exodus Chapter 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

God lifts Moses up in the eyes of Pharaoh, makes him as a god.\u00a0 God is demonstrating His power to the lost and those who are His people.<\/p>\n

\"Exodus-2\"<\/a>The phrase that gets our attention is \u201cI will harden pharaoh\u2019s heart\u201d.\u00a0 Why do we have such a problem with this statement?\u00a0 In an earlier chapter pharaoh denied God, and refused to let the children of Israel go.\u00a0 God does not have to take us back.\u00a0 Once God turns us over (See Romans 1) we are done in.\u00a0 Please, remember you can always come back to God if you can come back to God.\u00a0 When God stops drawing we are doomed.\u00a0 This is why I stress salvation is not just a mentally light decision but a transformational work of the Spirit of God.\u00a0 This is why I stress that when we sin it is not a light thing.\u00a0 Ignoring God the Spirit and God\u2019s Word has consequences we may not be allowed back from.\u00a0 But if you can come back, run don\u2019t walk back.\u00a0 God is longsuffering but there is an end to His grace period.<\/p>\n

Rejoice in your relationship.\u00a0 God has called you and saved you by His grace.\u00a0 Rejoice that you have found forgiveness, and are able to serve the true and living 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-4294","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\/4294","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=4294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4295,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294\/revisions\/4295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}