{"id":4489,"date":"2024-03-31T17:34:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T17:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4489"},"modified":"2024-03-31T17:34:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T17:34:42","slug":"sermon-3-31-2024-beyond-resurrection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4489","title":{"rendered":"Sermon 3\/31\/2024: &#8220;Beyond Resurrection&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listen Here: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ross-240331-Beyond-Resurrection.mp3\">Beyond Resurrection<\/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 25:6-9; Acts 10:34-43<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We are separated from the actual events of the Bible by thousands of years. Our connection to the actual events of the Bible is literary.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We read about those events. Our memories are not imaginary, but neither are they experiential. They are historical memories.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Our memories of those events are filtered by time, and by thousands of years of retelling and analysis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do we today have any actual experience of the biblical stories?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The connection between all Christians is the power and presence of the Holy Spirit who has been dispatched to bring about the resurrection of all humanity one day.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the meantime, the Holy Spirit brings about the regeneration of individuals on earth as the first step toward the final resurrection.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The church on earth is, then, the stepping stone to heaven. Christians are saved into the church, the body of Christ on earth, as a preliminary to our final union with Christ on earth as it is in heaven.<\/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>Of course, not everyone has a knock down experience of the Holy Spirit like Paul had. Nor is that kind of experience necessary.<\/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-4489","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\/4489","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=4489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4491,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489\/revisions\/4491"}],"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=4489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}