{"id":4492,"date":"2024-04-08T15:22:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T15:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4492"},"modified":"2024-04-08T15:23:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T15:23:06","slug":"sermon-4-7-2024-light-sight-insight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4492","title":{"rendered":"Sermon 4\/7\/2024: &#8220;Light, Sight, &amp; Insight&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listen here: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Ross-240407-Light-Sight-Insight.mp3\">Light, Sight, &amp; Insight<\/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>John 20:21-29; 1 John 1:5-2:2<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jesus not only gave them a continuing mission, He gave them the means to accomplish it: \u201c22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, \u2018Receive the Holy Spirit.\u2019\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This was reminiscent of Genesis 2:7 \u201cThen the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the same way that God had first created humanity by breathing the breath of life into them, Jesus now created a new humanity by bestowing upon His disciples the breath of new life in Christ.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How would this new humanity, this new power, this new mission, this new insight manifest? What new power and ability was bestowed upon the disciples? He gave them the keys to the kingdom: the power of forgiveness.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201c23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This verse is traditionally understood to be the \u201ckeys of the kingdom.\u201d It is very important.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/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>Jesus was using Thomas\u2019 experience as a model. How so? First we must understand that the model was not \u201cseeing is believing.\u201d<\/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-4492","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\/4492","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=4492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4495,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492\/revisions\/4495"}],"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=4492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}