{"id":4307,"date":"2023-07-24T12:32:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T12:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4307"},"modified":"2023-07-24T12:41:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T12:41:38","slug":"sermon-7-23-2023-gods-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4307","title":{"rendered":"Sermon 7\/23\/2023: &#8220;God&#8217;s Blessing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listen here: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Ross-230723-Gods-Blessing.mp3\">God&#8217;s Blessing<\/a>&#8220;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Genesis 28:10-19; Matthew 13:24-30; Matthew 13:36-43<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Note two things: 1) God was planning for a very large population on the earth; 2) that large population would receive God\u2019s blessing through what God was doing with Abraham, Isaac, and now Jacob\u2014who would become Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What was the condition of the people that Jesus found? Jesus did not find a united people. He did not find faithful Temple priests, or many faithful Israelites. The temple establishment had grown corrupt.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Did He find a people ready for harvest? He told the parable of the weeds to describe the people He found, the culture He found.<\/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>But it\u2019s a field of wheat with some weeds, not a field of weeds with some wheat.<\/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-4307","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\/4307","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=4307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4310,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4307\/revisions\/4310"}],"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=4307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}