{"id":9317,"date":"2024-04-21T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=9317"},"modified":"2024-04-27T14:23:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T19:23:26","slug":"his-promises","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/sermons\/his-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"His Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>1. Jesus has a promise that speaks directly to your pain<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em>John 3:16 NLT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>2. He Cares for the One<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them gets lost, what will he do? Won\u2019t he leave the ninety-nine others in the wilderness and go to search for the one that is lost until he finds it?&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em>Luke 15:4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In the same way, there is more joy in heaven over one lost sinner who repents and returns to God than over ninety-nine others who are righteous and haven\u2019t strayed away!&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em>Luke 15:7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>3. Love isn\u2019t just what God does\u2014Love is who God is<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2026 God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em>1 John 4:8-10 NIV<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, \u201cLord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?\u201d &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em>Luke 9:54 NIV<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em>Romans 5:8 NIV<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one\u2019s life for one\u2019s friends.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em>John 15:13 NIV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Jesus has a promise that speaks directly to your pain For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.&nbsp;&nbsp; John 3:16 NLT 2. He Cares for the One If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them gets lost, what will he do? Won\u2019t he leave the ninety-nine others in the wilderness and go to search for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9318,"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-9317","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\/9317","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=9317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/9317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9320,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/9317\/revisions\/9320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_topic?post=9317"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_book?post=9317"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_series?post=9317"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_speaker?post=9317"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_tag?post=9317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}