{"id":4449,"date":"2024-02-05T13:47:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T13:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4449"},"modified":"2024-02-05T13:48:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T13:48:01","slug":"sermon-2-4-2-24-possession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4449","title":{"rendered":"Sermon 2\/4\/2-24: &#8220;Possession&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listen here&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Ross-240204-Possession.mp3\">Possession<\/a>&#8220;<\/h2>\n\n\n\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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Isaiah 40:21-31; Mark 1:29-39<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a grand section of Scripture that gives us hope and encouragement because, in spite of our sin and insignificance, God provides strength, hope, purpose, and direction to His people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>And how does God give people strength, hope, purpose, and direction? He inhabits them. He creates life habits in them that produce strength, hope, purpose, and direction.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And this is precisely what Jesus was doing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The idea of demon possession has a long and complex history. Exactly what it is, is unknown because the Greek word is general and not specific. It includes a lot of different ideas.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The general sense is that it indicates someone who is not in their \u201cright mind.\u201d<\/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 gospel is about returning people to their \u201cright mind,\u201d and that \u201cright mind\u201d is the mind of Jesus Christ.<\/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-4449","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\/4449","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=4449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4452,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4449\/revisions\/4452"}],"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=4449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}