{"id":8691,"date":"2023-07-30T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=8691"},"modified":"2023-08-03T18:48:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T23:48:07","slug":"you-are-called-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/sermons\/you-are-called-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"You Are Called &#8211; Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Therefore I, a prisoner for serving the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of your calling, for you have been called by God. &nbsp;Ephesians 4:1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>God Calls You To Salvation<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>God Calls you to Sanctification<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>God Calls you to Serve<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father.&nbsp;&nbsp; Colossians 3:17<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth.&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 Corinthians 1:26<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>Our Calling will Cost<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>But the Lord said to Ananias, \u201cGo! This man is my chosen instrument to proclaim my name to the Gentiles and their kings and to the people of Israel. <sup>16<\/sup>I will show him how much he must suffer for my name.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp; Acts 9:15-16<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>Our Calling Will Sustain Us<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.&nbsp;&nbsp; Philippians 3:13-14<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 we constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your every deed prompted by faith. <sup>12<\/sup>We pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you \u2026&nbsp;&nbsp; 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Therefore I, a prisoner for serving the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of your calling, for you have been called by God. &nbsp;Ephesians 4:1 God Calls You To Salvation God Calls you to Sanctification God Calls you to Serve And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father.&nbsp;&nbsp; Colossians 3:17 Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"ctc_sermon_topic":[],"ctc_sermon_book":[],"ctc_sermon_series":[],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[110],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"class_list":["post-8691","ctc_sermon","type-ctc_sermon","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ctc_sermon_speaker-jesse-loew","ctfw-has-image"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/8691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_sermon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/8691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8692,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/8691\/revisions\/8692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_topic?post=8691"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_book?post=8691"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_series?post=8691"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_speaker?post=8691"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_tag?post=8691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}