{"id":4465,"date":"2024-02-26T14:22:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T14:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4465"},"modified":"2024-02-26T14:23:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T14:23:17","slug":"sermon-2-25-2024-righteous-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4465","title":{"rendered":"Sermon 2\/25\/2024: &#8220;Righteous Faith&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listen here: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Ross-240225-Righteous-Faith.mp3\">Righteous Faith<\/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<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cI am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless, that I may make my covenant between me and you\u2026\u201d (vs. 1-2).\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>At first sight it looks like works-righteousness, that God is requiring Abraham to be righteous as a condition of the covenant. As if God said: <em>be blameless or righteous so that I can make my covenant with you.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And if we limit ourselves to these words, it does say that. But that was not all that God said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>People usually look to the government, the law, to provide justice. But neither the government nor the law are able to provide justice because justice is not something that people <em>get<\/em>; justice is something that people <em>give<\/em>.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ask any lawyer if the law is about justice. It\u2019s not, it\u2019s about the legal process. Justice is a different thing.<\/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>We need to change the chant to \u201cKnow justice, know peace!\u201d where knowing justice means knowing and obeying God\u2019s demand for righteousness.<\/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-4465","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\/4465","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=4465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4467,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465\/revisions\/4467"}],"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=4465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}