{"id":2115,"date":"2022-05-01T10:41:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T15:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=2115"},"modified":"2022-05-09T09:20:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T14:20:37","slug":"rising-a-relentless-pursuit-of-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=2115","title":{"rendered":"RISING: A Relentless Pursuit of Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/5-1-22.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To restore our awe of God, Jesus first replaces the shallow familiarity with God that causes us to mistakenly think we know Him. ~ B B Warfield<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matthew 13:53-58<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. We must move beyond shallow familiarity with Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And also, Jesus replaces the vain confidence in ourselves that causes us to mistakenly think we know better than Him. ~ B B Warfield<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2.  We must get rid of our vain confidence in ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jeremiah 2:13<br>Forsaken means \u201cleft alone, abandoned, neglected, rejected.\u201d<br>John 7:37-39<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. We must do whatever it takes to pursue Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Luke 19:1-10<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-3bc6adfe-5765-4248-9b32-996715928e99\" href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/5-1-22.mp3\">Rising: A Relentless Pusuit of Jesus<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/5-1-22.mp3\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-3bc6adfe-5765-4248-9b32-996715928e99\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To restore our awe of God, Jesus first replaces the shallow familiarity with God that causes us to mistakenly think we know Him. ~ B B Warfield Matthew 13:53-58 1. We must move beyond shallow familiarity with Jesus. And also, Jesus replaces the vain confidence in ourselves that causes us to mistakenly think we know &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=2115\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RISING: A Relentless Pursuit of Jesus<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rising","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2115"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2126,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions\/2126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}