{"id":4538,"date":"2024-06-17T14:44:44","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T14:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4538"},"modified":"2024-06-17T14:49:50","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T14:49:50","slug":"sermon-6-16-2024-gods-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4538","title":{"rendered":"Sermon 6\/16\/2024: &#8220;God&#8217;s Plan&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listen Here: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Ross-240616-Gods-Plan.mp3\">God&#8217;s Plan<\/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\">Ezekiel 17:22-24; 2 Corinthians 5:6-17<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This prophecy was given to the Jewish people who had been defeated because they had been unfaithful. It was a perennial promise to restore God\u2019s people, to make of them what God had designed them to be: strong, healthy, fruitful, and a blessing to the other critters of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>No one fears mercy, but justice is another matter. People fear God\u2019s justice because they know that they don\u2019t want what they deserve.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>People want mercy, not justice. But God doesn\u2019t give one or the other. God necessarily gives them both.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The people of Nineveh provide the biblical model. They were wicked and unfaithful so Jonah preached fire and brimstone to them. And they repented. They changed.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>They deserved God\u2019s justice because they were corrupt.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>But when they changed, they deserved God\u2019s mercy\u2014not because they were sorry, but because they actually changed their ways.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>That\u2019s the way God works.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sunday morning messages are available on the website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stpaulsmarietta.org\/audio\">www.stpaulsmarietta.org\/audio<\/a>). Tell your friends.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But here\u2019s the thing! We can\u2019t make it happen. We can\u2019t make ourselves righteous.<\/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-4538","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\/4538","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=4538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4542,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions\/4542"}],"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=4538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}