{"id":533,"date":"2026-04-06T06:05:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblestudyradio.org\/?p=533"},"modified":"2026-04-06T06:05:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:05:27","slug":"matthew-program-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/?p=533","title":{"rendered":"Matthew (Program #54)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21\" style=\"margin-left: 10px;margin-right: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudyradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/bible_light.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/>Matthew (Program #54) &#8211; The Kingdom Requirements<\/p>\n<p>Lust, pride and the love of riches, these are 3 scorpions that plague virtually every human being.\u00a0 Many people come to Christ motivated by the desire to be free from the sting of these scorpions.\u00a0 As God&#8217;s people, we must ultimately experience this kind of freedom.\u00a0 But deliverance from these can never be attained by mere will power or determination.\u00a0\u00a0 As we consider this account in Matthew 19 and how much these things will affect our ultimate standing in God&#8217;s kingdom.<\/p>\n<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Matthew (Program #54)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2026-04-06T06:05:27-05:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Matthew (Program #54) - The Kingdom Requirements\r\n\r\nLust, pride and the love of riches, these are 3 scorpions that plague virtually every human being.\u00a0 Many people come to Christ motivated by the desire to be free from the sting of these scorpions.\u00a0 ...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Matthew\/Matt_54.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"15.1\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2663\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Matthew\/Matt_54.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('2663','http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Matthew\/Matt_54.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Matthew\/Matt_54.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/?powerpress_pinw=533-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Matthew\/Matt_54.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Matt_54.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Religion--Spirituality-Podcas\/Bible-Study-Radio-p959109\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew (Program #54) &#8211; The Kingdom Requirements Lust, pride and the love of riches, these are 3 scorpions that plague virtually every human being.\u00a0 Many people come to Christ motivated by the desire to be free from the sting of these scorpions.\u00a0 As God&#8217;s people, we must ultimately experience this kind of freedom.\u00a0 But deliverance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,4],"tags":[27,25,26,111,29,34,110,108,7809,7807,109],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9794,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/9794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}