{"id":1183,"date":"2012-06-06T21:31:07","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T01:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2012-06-07T21:32:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T01:32:09","slug":"june-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/?p=1183","title":{"rendered":"June 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Meditations <\/em><\/strong>on <strong>John 1:17, \u201c<\/strong>For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week Connie overheard a conversation between a doctor and patient talking about the Bible. The young lady said, \u201cAs long as I follow the Ten Commandments I know I\u2019m going to heaven.\u201d The doctor agreed.<\/p>\n<p>A few minutes later it was her turn to see the doctor, so she asked him if he believed Christ is the Savior. He said, \u201cOh yes!\u201d She then asked if saving grace comes by keeping the Old Law. He said he would think about it, and they moved on to the reason for the visit. I hope he does so.<\/p>\n<p>Many do not take the time to study and read the Scriptures today. From our reading above we see that saving grace culminates not in the Ten Commandments but in Christ. The Old Testament has value to bring us to the New Testament, but the keeping of the old law will not bring us salvation in Christ. &#8211; Joe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meditations on John 1:17, \u201cFor the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.\u201d Last week Connie overheard a conversation between a doctor and patient talking about the Bible. The young lady said, \u201cAs long as I follow the Ten Commandments I know I\u2019m going to heaven.\u201d The doctor agreed. A few minutes later it was her turn to see the doctor, so she asked&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/?p=1183\" class=\"read_link\"><span>Keep Reading<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middleburg-meditations"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1186,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions\/1186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}