{"id":747,"date":"2015-07-26T20:34:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T00:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=747"},"modified":"2015-07-27T17:06:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T21:06:18","slug":"monday-july-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=747","title":{"rendered":"Monday, July 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MATTHEW 19 <sup>23\u00a0<\/sup>Then Jesus said to His disciples, \u201cAssuredly, I say to you that it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. <sup>24\u00a0<\/sup>And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.\u201d<sup>25\u00a0<\/sup>When His disciples heard <em>it,<\/em> they were greatly astonished, saying, \u201cWho then can be saved?\u201d<sup>26\u00a0<\/sup>But Jesus looked at <em>them<\/em> and said to them, \u201cWith men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.\u201d<sup>27\u00a0<\/sup>Then Peter answered and said to Him, \u201cSee, we have left all and followed You. Therefore what shall we have?\u201d<sup>28\u00a0<\/sup>So Jesus said to them, \u201cAssuredly I say to you, that in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. <sup>29\u00a0<\/sup>And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name\u2019s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life. <sup>30\u00a0<\/sup>But many <em>who are<\/em> first will be last, and the last first.<\/p>\n<p>PRACTICAL APPLICATION: \u00a0one thing that makes following Christ so difficult is that we don&#8217;t &#8216;see any result&#8217; immediately in the physical world. \u00a0That is where Faith comes in&#8230;the &#8216;substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MATTHEW 19 23\u00a0Then Jesus said to His disciples, \u201cAssuredly, I say to you that it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. 24\u00a0And again I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-daily-devotional","has_no_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}