{"id":3209,"date":"2009-03-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/im-so-happy-to-see-all-of-these-posts-when-i-see-wccers-getting-deep-in-the-scriptures-it-makes-me-feel-like-were-really-being-the-church-hey-i-liked-jonathans-insight-to-the-temptation-of-chris\/"},"modified":"2017-02-22T11:51:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T16:51:58","slug":"im-so-happy-to-see-all-of-these-posts-when-i-see-wccers-getting-deep-in-the-scriptures-it-makes-me-feel-like-were-really-being-the-church-hey-i-liked-jonathans-insight-to-the-temptation-of-chris","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/im-so-happy-to-see-all-of-these-posts-when-i-see-wccers-getting-deep-in-the-scriptures-it-makes-me-feel-like-were-really-being-the-church-hey-i-liked-jonathans-insight-to-the-temptation-of-chris","title":{"rendered":"Temptation of Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m so happy to see all of these posts! When I see WCCers getting deep in the Scriptures it makes me feel like we&#8217;re really being the church! Hey, I liked Jonathan&#8217;s insight to the temptation of Christ. Three tests, each with a different focus. It reminds me that Satan hasn&#8217;t changed much. He tempted Eve with three too (1- good for food, 2- pleasing to the eye, 3- desirable for gaining wisdom)<br \/>\nPerhaps this is what John meant&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;For everything in the world&#8211;the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does&#8211;comes not from the Father but from the world.&#8221; (1 John 2:16 NIV).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m so happy to see all of these posts! When I see WCCers getting deep in the Scriptures it makes me feel like we&#8217;re really being the church! Hey, I liked Jonathan&#8217;s insight to the temptation of Christ. Three tests, each with a different focus. It reminds me that Satan hasn&#8217;t changed much. He tempted Eve with three too (1- good for food, 2- pleasing to the eye, 3- desirable for gaining wisdom)<br \/>\nPerhaps this is what John meant&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;For everything in the world&#8211;the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does&#8211;comes not from the Father but from the world.&#8221; (1 John 2:16 NIV).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[],"scripture-chapter":[],"oyb_day":[1610],"location":[],"class_list":["post-3209","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","oyb_day-march-24"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/3209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oyb"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}