{"id":1663,"date":"2012-11-28T08:10:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T14:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/?p=1663"},"modified":"2012-11-28T08:10:09","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T14:10:09","slug":"exodus-3118","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/?p=1663","title":{"rendered":"Exodus 31:18"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em><strong>When the Lord finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the covenant law, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.<\/strong> <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The God of the universe had no problem in binding Himself to humanity with a written contract. We equate freedom with the ability to have options, but God equates freedom with the unchangeableness of His promises. He took this one step further when His promises became flesh and lived among us in Jesus Christ. As the biblical story unfolds we find that true freedom occurs when the promises of God go from stone to flesh\u2014from external obligations to heartfelt obedience.\u00a0 ~ Dave Whitehead, Senior Pastor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracenyc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">GraceNYC.org<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"ylb-container\" style=\"background-color:E6E6E6\">\n                   <a href=\"#\" class=\"ylb-close\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/wp-content\/plugins\/mtx-license-plugin\/images\/close-icon.png\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t   <p><div style=\"background-color: #F8F8F8; color: #3B5D9B; font-style: italic;  font-size: 10px;\">\r\n<fieldset style=\"border: #FFF dotted 1px;\" >\r\n<legend><strong>Iowa Web Network<\/strong><\/legend>\r\n<span style=\"padding-left: 15px;\">This article is subject to Creative Common License.  You can reproduce content, but citing the source and the author\u2026<\/span>\r\n<\/fieldset><\/div><\/p>\n               <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Lord finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the covenant law, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God. The God of the universe had no problem in binding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/?p=1663\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[11,56],"class_list":["post-1663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-testament","category-readings","tag-exodus","tag-old-testament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1664,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions\/1664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}