{"id":4282,"date":"2023-06-19T12:32:44","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T12:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4282"},"modified":"2023-06-19T12:32:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T12:32:59","slug":"sermon-6-18-2023-called-into","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4282","title":{"rendered":"Sermon 6\/18\/2023: Called Into"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listen Here: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ross-230618-Called-Into.mp3\">Called Into<\/a>&#8220;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Genesis 15:5 \u201cAnd he brought him outside and said, \u2018Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.\u2019 Then he said to him, \u2018So shall your offspring be.\u2019\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>God was planning to sustain a very large human population on earth. The more people there are, the more cooperation is required.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Let me suggest that when Jesus talks about unity He means cooperation, more than agreement.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>God\u2019s covenant requires us to not only cooperate with one another, but to cooperate with God first and foremost.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>God knows how the world works\u2014He created it! So He knows best how to sustain human life, human culture.<\/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>The idea was for human society to last a long time; the Bible calls it eternity. Eternity is a long time. This side of heaven we call it sustainability.<\/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-4282","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\/4282","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=4282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4285,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282\/revisions\/4285"}],"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=4282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}