{"id":4546,"date":"2024-06-24T12:31:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T12:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4546"},"modified":"2024-06-24T12:32:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T12:32:25","slug":"sermon-6-22-2024-who-am-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4546","title":{"rendered":"Sermon 6\/22\/2024: &#8220;Who Am I?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\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<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listen here: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Ross-240622-Who-Am-I.mp3\">Who Am I?<\/a>&#8220;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Job 38:1-11; 2 Corinthians 6:1-13<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Job is one of the most interesting and most difficult books to read and understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>And the crux of the difficulty is understanding the relationship between faithfulness and the difficulties of life\u2014suffering.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We want to believe that our faithfulness will protect us from life\u2019s difficulties.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>But that is not Job\u2019s story, and Job\u2019s friends were intent on maintaing that story, which suggested that Job had lost faith.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Job was insistent that he had not lost faith. But his friends didn\u2019t believe it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They were convinced that God would protect faithful people from difficulties, and the only rational conclusion, therefore, was that Job had been unfaithful.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Job\u2019s friends thought that they understood how God \u201cworked,\u201d that God rewarded righteousness and punished faithlessness.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And there is much to commend this argument. In fact, this argument is biblical<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Our thinking, our experience of this world, our skills and abilities, our education apart from God\u2019s Word is inadequate to rightly understand the world in which we live.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We contemporary people have not learned that yet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Our world has made such advances in learning, science, technology, and medicine. And we have! We are way more advanced that any previous generation in history. All of this is true!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>But it\u2019s not the whole truth.<\/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 trust in politics more than we trust in God\u2019s providence.<\/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-4546","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\/4546","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=4546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4548,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions\/4548"}],"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=4546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}