{"id":4358,"date":"2023-10-09T14:00:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4358"},"modified":"2023-10-09T14:00:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T14:00:59","slug":"sermon-10-8-2023-god-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4358","title":{"rendered":"Sermon 10\/8\/2023: &#8220;God Can&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listen here: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Ross-231008-God-Can.mp3\">God Can<\/a>&#8220;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Philippians 3:4-14; Matthew 21:33-46<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In the third chapter of Philippians Paul discusses righteousness through faith in Christ, as opposed to righteousness through obedience to the law.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This is the central issue that Christianity has with Judaism. It is the faith vs. works issue that motivated Martin Luther to reexamine his training as a Roman Catholic priest.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Luther determined that his training regarding righteousness through obedience to the law was a serious error, and that Jesus had come to correct that error.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It was the issue that created the Protestant or Evangelical churches.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The issue that we are looking at is whether God changes people or not.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Addressing this concern, Paul reviews his own history, his qualifications as a believer in God.<\/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>Paul did not become more faithful as a Christian than he had been as a Jew. The degree of his faith did not change. His passion for truth did not change. His commitment to God did not change.<\/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-4358","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\/4358","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=4358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4360,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358\/revisions\/4360"}],"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=4358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}