{"id":4483,"date":"2024-03-25T12:09:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T12:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4483"},"modified":"2024-03-25T12:10:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T12:10:32","slug":"sermon-3-24-2024-gospel-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4483","title":{"rendered":"Sermon 3\/24\/2024: &#8220;Gospel Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listen here: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ross-240324-Gospel-Policy.mp3\">Gospel Policy<\/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 50:4-9; John 12:12-16<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Isaiah said that he could \u201chear as those who are taught\u201d (v. 4).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you are being taught something, the voice doing the teaching is not your own\u2014and yet when you are thinking, it is!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Isaiah said that the \u201cLord God has opened my ear\u201d (v. 5).\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jesus often speaks of those who have \u201cears to hear\u201d at the end of a difficult saying or parable (Matthew 11:15; Mark 4:9, 23). what does He mean?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Isaiah found that he was able to hear or understand things that were unpopular, things that would cause him to be persecuted for, if he shared them.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Yet, he was compelled to speak the truth in spite of the fact that doing so would bring him harm.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He knew that the truth would ultimately prevail. It always does, though it usually takes longer that we expect.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Today we understand Isaiah to have prefigured the suffering of Jesus Christ during Holy Week.<\/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>Is Jesus a threat to people who love their sin? Well\u2026 yes He is!<\/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-4483","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\/4483","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=4483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4485,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483\/revisions\/4485"}],"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=4483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}