{"id":4388,"date":"2023-11-20T14:58:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T14:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4388"},"modified":"2023-11-27T15:37:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T15:37:39","slug":"sermon-11-19-2023-kingdom-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4388","title":{"rendered":"Sermon 11\/19\/2023: &#8220;kingdom Investment&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listen here: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Ross-231119-Kingdom-Investment.mp3\">Kingdom Investment<\/a>&#8220;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1 Thessalonians 5:1-11; Matthew 25:14-30<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are expected to know the \u201ctimes and seasons\u201d of the Lord, which means that we should be able to expect in a general way what the Lord is doing in history. This doesn\u2019t mean that we will know God\u2019s precise actions or His timing exactly. But we should have an idea of it generally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In America that means that we need to know how to vote and who and what to vote for, and who or what to vote against.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Christians are <em>in<\/em> society, but not <em>of<\/em> society, <em>in<\/em> the world, but not <em>of<\/em> the world. We are in it to win it, not to lose it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Whatever God has given you must be engaged. It must be used now, regularly, and generously. Daily, weekly, yearly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sunday morning messages are available on the website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stpaulsmarietta.org\/audio\">www.stpaulsmarietta.org\/audio<\/a>). Tell your friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not enough to be a conservative. Conserving God\u2019s Word, God\u2019s gifts,is important, but it is not enough.<\/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-4388","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\/4388","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=4388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4396,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388\/revisions\/4396"}],"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=4388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}