{"id":4191,"date":"2023-02-06T13:40:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T13:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4191"},"modified":"2023-02-06T13:40:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T13:40:28","slug":"sermon-2-5-23-spiritual-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4191","title":{"rendered":"Sermon 2\/5\/23: Spiritual Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listen here: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Ross-230205-Spiritual-Growth.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spiritual Growth<\/a>&#8220;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>Jesus was an ordinary man, He experienced temptation like we do\u2014but He overcame temptation, even when it meant that He would suffer for doing what is right. That\u2019s our model. He did it, and because He did it as an ordinary man, we can do what He did. He said in  John 14:12, \u201cTruly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.\u201d You and I can do what Jesus did (overcome temptation) because Jesus was an ordinary man.<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>God does not change, nor does the gospel message change over time. They are always the same. But people grow and mature, and as we grow and mature our perspectives and understandings of things do change as we grow. So, while the gospel doesn\u2019t change, we do. We come to understand it better, more fully, over time. Our understanding of Jesus and the gospel changes as we grow. Yet it doesn\u2019t change, we do.<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sermons are available on the website (<a href=\"https:www.stpaulsmarietta.org\/audio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:www.stpaulsmarietta.org\/audio<\/a>). Share the link with your family and friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, while the gospel doesn\u2019t change, we do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-4191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worship-this-week","tag-worship-this-week"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Paross","author_link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4193,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191\/revisions\/4193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}