{"id":4348,"date":"2015-02-23T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/?p=4348"},"modified":"2015-02-23T10:58:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T16:58:00","slug":"exodus-chapter-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/?p=4348","title":{"rendered":"Exodus Chapter 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Exodus-2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4280\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Exodus-2-300x179.jpg?resize=300%2C179\" alt=\"Exodus-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Exodus-2.jpg?resize=300%2C179&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Exodus-2.jpg?resize=200%2C120&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Exodus-2.jpg?w=460&amp;ssl=1 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Today we read about Moses receiving the 10 Commandments.\u00a0 You know the ones that we think should be hung everywhere but broken at will.\u00a0 Just joking, but we do make more fuss about the symbolism than the actions in our life.\u00a0 Many people get arrested with crosses around their neck.<\/p>\n<p>I want us to consider verse 20: And Moses said to the people, \u201cDo not fear; for God has come to test you, and that His fear may be before you, so that you may not sin\u201d\u00a0 The first fear is a state of being scared, and frighten as if God was a monster, or something coming to do harm.\u00a0 The second fear here is more of a healthy fear.\u00a0 This fear does have us understand the consequence of God\u2019s wrath but knowing God is doing this to help us.\u00a0 The chastisement of God is for our benefit not our harm.\u00a0 We reverence God knowing or fearing His correction.<\/p>\n<p>Reflect this weekend on the Ten Commandments.\u00a0 The law of God shows us our need for God.\u00a0 None of us can live sin free and holy without redemption.\u00a0 In the Spirit of God we have His power to do better.<\/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-4348","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\/4348","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=4348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4349,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348\/revisions\/4349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}