{"id":4435,"date":"2024-01-15T15:57:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T15:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4435"},"modified":"2024-01-15T15:58:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T15:58:34","slug":"sermon-1-14-2024-seeing-what-you-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4435","title":{"rendered":"Sermon 1\/14\/2024: &#8220;Seeing What You Hear&#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\/2024\/01\/Ross-240114-Seeing-What-You-Hear.mp3\">Seeing What You Hear<\/a>&#8220;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Samuel 3:1-10; John 1:43-51<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Samuel was Eli\u2019s understudy, his protege. And the first thing that Samuel learned was that Eli was not faithful.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>That\u2019s a hard lesson to learn. When someone you are supposed to look up to, or some institution, like your church or your government, that is supposed to engender your trust and support is proven to be unfaithful and untrustworthy, it is a bitter pill to swallow. It\u2019s hard to believe, hard to accept.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Our first response is disbelief. <em>Surely that is not true. There must be some mistake, some sort of misunderstanding or miscommunication.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We don\u2019t want to believe it because believing it upsets our entire world. Suddenly everything that we thought was true comes into question.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Faithfulness happens in a lot of different ways, but the result is always the same. At some point, you just \u201cget\u201d Jesus. You understand Him, you trust Him, and you know that He understands you. He <em>sees<\/em> you and you <em>see<\/em> Him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>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>Eli was a prominent figure in Samaritan religious tradition.<\/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-4435","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\/4435","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=4435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4437,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435\/revisions\/4437"}],"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=4435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}