{"id":4420,"date":"2023-12-27T15:48:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T15:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4420"},"modified":"2023-12-27T15:48:39","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T15:48:39","slug":"sermon-12-24-2023-apocalypse-credible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4420","title":{"rendered":"Sermon: 12\/24\/2023: &#8220;Apocalypse: Credible&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"168\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image.png 168w, https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-102x150.png 102w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listen here: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Ross-231224-Apocalypse-Credible.mp3\">Apocalypse: Credible<\/a>&#8220;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Matthew 1:17<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The reason genealogies are kept is to establish the lineage of inheritance rights. Legally, to receive an inheritance one needs to establish a credible family or legal relationship with the deceased.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Genealogies are about inheritance. And in the Bible the Kingdom of God comes as an inheritance.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3 groups of 14. What is the significance of 14 generations?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If we are to think like the first-century people, we must recognize that the importance of the number fourteen is that it is a multiple of seven.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Matthew is implying that the entire flow of God&#8217;s history of creating a people for himself shows that Jesus the Christ is our Sabbath rest. How so?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/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>The completion of God\u2019s mission in the world does not mean that it culminates in the destruction of the world.<\/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-4420","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\/4420","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=4420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4424,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4420\/revisions\/4424"}],"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=4420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}