{"id":4267,"date":"2023-05-22T12:25:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T12:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4267"},"modified":"2023-05-22T12:25:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T12:25:26","slug":"sermon-5-21-2023-eternal-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4267","title":{"rendered":"Sermon 5\/21\/2023: Eternal Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listen here: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Ross-230521-Eternal-Life.mp3\">Eternal Life<\/a>&#8220;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Peter tells us to give our anxieties to God. Don\u2019t hold on to them. God cares for us.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Our obligations to God: be sober-minded &amp; watchful:<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sober: don\u2019t poison yourself with alcohol, drugs, emotional hype, or bad thinking.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Watchful: stay alert, pay attention to God (Word and Sacrament; reading Bible and practice faithfulness).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201c10 All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Because we belong to Jesus Christ, we also belong to God. We are not our own, to do whatever we like. We are the property of an Other.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We are not who we think we are, we are who God has created us to be, who Jesus Christ has freed us to be.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We are not free to decide for ourselves who we want to be.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gen. 5:2 \u201cMale and female he created them.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I\u2019m not confusing religion and politics here. I\u2019m pointing out that politics is meddling in religious issues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sermons are available on the website (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-admin\/www.stpaulsmarietta.org\/audio\" target=\"_blank\">https:www.stpaulsmarietta.org\/audio<\/a>). Share the link with your family and friends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unbelievers think that they are smarter than God, that they know better than God, better than history.<\/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-4267","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\/4267","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=4267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4270,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267\/revisions\/4270"}],"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=4267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}