{"id":896,"date":"2014-01-02T02:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T08:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/?p=896"},"modified":"2014-01-02T11:55:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T17:55:16","slug":"john-chapter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/?p=896","title":{"rendered":"John Chapter 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>This is day two of our journey through the Gospel of John.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I am praying that God shows Himself to you in greater ways.\u00a0The wedding in Cana of Galilee, had guest including Jesus and His disciples.\u00a0\u00a0I believe we need more celebration not less as people of God.\u00a0\u00a0God wants to join us in those gatherings and not to be excluded.\u00a0\u00a0Jesus, responding to marries request even helped by turning water into wine.\u00a0\u00a0And when Jesus does something He does it first class, it was the best wine.\u00a0\u00a0Imagine how Jesus changes us as He transforms us through salvation.\u00a0\u00a0He makes you and I better and when we are following Christ we find the best way.<\/li>\n<li>Just one note on wine and I am moving on.\u00a0\u00a0Wine in Jesus\u2019 day was not the same as today.\u00a0\u00a0It would take over 20 glasses in some cases to equal the alcohol content in one of our drinks today.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0God does not want us under the influence of alcohol and it controls you quicker than you think.\u00a0\u00a0A couple of weeks ago NBC did a study on how one drink effects the way you drive.<\/li>\n<li>Verse 12 Jesus drives out the money changers.\u00a0\u00a0Make not my house a house of merchandise.\u00a0\u00a0Remember we are the house of God, the Spirit lives in you as a Christian.\u00a0\u00a0Jesus wants us to be fit temples for him to dwell in.<\/li>\n<li>In this chapter I see Jesus living life with His disciples, His family, His culture, and in His temple.\u00a0\u00a0The one thing I really noticed is God wants to make life better for everyone in every aspect of life.\u00a0\u00a0Even through the cleansing of the Temple and running out the money changers He made their lives better.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>\nKeep Reading and share your thoughts and questions.<br \/>\nPastor Joe: mbpastor@fidmail.com ;<br \/>\nDiane :\u00a0memorial@fidnet.com;<br \/>\nPastor Mark : Youth@mbcnewhaven.com<\/h4>\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-896","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\/896","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=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}