{"id":4553,"date":"2024-07-08T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4553"},"modified":"2024-07-08T12:25:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T12:25:34","slug":"sermon-7-7-2024-qualm-before-the-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4553","title":{"rendered":"Sermon 7\/7\/2024: &#8220;Qualm Before The Storm&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listen here: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Ross-240707-Qualm.mp3\">Qualm Before The Storm<\/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\">Mark 6:1-13; Mark 6:1-13<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ezekiel lived during the godly reign of King Josiah, who had rediscovered Moses\u2019 law and instituted successful reforms in Israel. Ezekiel was born toward the end of Josiah\u2019s reign, and the kings following Josiah were not faithful.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>So Ezekiel knew about faithfulness, and also witnessed unfaithfulness.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Spirit entered into Ezekiel. This is clearly an example of being born again in the Old Testament.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>God wanted both believers and nonbelievers to know the message of the prophets, and in our day, the message of Jesus Christ.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We are not used to thinking like this. We are used to thinking that God\u2019s message is for believers\u2014and it is!\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>But God also has a message for unbelievers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>God\u2019s message is that faithfulness has consequences, and faithlessness also has consequences.<\/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>There is a storm on the horizon. Will God see you through it?<\/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-4553","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\/4553","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=4553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4556,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions\/4556"}],"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=4553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}