{"id":4354,"date":"2023-10-02T12:17:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T12:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4354"},"modified":"2023-10-02T12:17:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T12:17:54","slug":"sermon-10-1-2023-say-or-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4354","title":{"rendered":"Sermon 10\/1\/2023: &#8220;Say Or Do&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Listen here: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/oss-231001-Say-or-Do.mp3\">Say Or Do<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ezekiel 18:25-32; Matthew 21:23-32<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Bible doesn&#8217;t use the word fair. It uses just.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In both Hebrew(\u05e6\u05b8\u05d3\u05b7\u05e7) and Greek (\u03b4\u03b9\u03ba\u03b1\u03b9\u03bf\u03c3\u03cd\u03bd\u03b7) the word can be translated as either justice or righteousness. If you want justice, seek righteousness.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ezekiel, who was writing during the Babylonian captivity, was defending the Lord against the accusation that God is not just.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Israel\u2019s failure, and Jonah\u2019s, was to discount the reality and value of repentance. If repentance is real, people can change. It repentance is not real, people don\u2019t change.<\/p>\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 promise to be righteous is not righteousness<\/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-4354","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\/4354","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=4354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4357,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354\/revisions\/4357"}],"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=4354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}