{"id":166,"date":"2008-02-26T09:51:50","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T15:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/26\/sunday-recap-february-24-2008-how-to-vanquish-satan\/"},"modified":"2008-03-24T10:31:29","modified_gmt":"2008-03-24T16:31:29","slug":"sunday-recap-february-24-2008-how-to-vanquish-satan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/sunday-recap-february-24-2008-how-to-vanquish-satan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Recap &#8211; February 24, 2008 &#8211; How to Vanquish Satan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday was again a great day in the life of <a title=\"Living Word Free Lutheran Church\" href=\"http:\/\/www.livingwordfreelutheran.org\">Living Word<\/a> (as always).<\/p>\n<p>Songs for the service:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lord Most High &#8211; Harris\/Sadler<\/li>\n<li>Sing to the King &#8211; Foote<\/li>\n<li>How Deep the Father&#8217;s Love for Us &#8211; Townend<\/li>\n<li>Jesus, I Come &#8211; William T. Sleeper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been talking about &#8220;the day the universe changed&#8221; for the last two Sundays and it&#8217;s been really interesting.  This past Sunday we talked about the blame game and were definitely challenged to examine ourselves.  We were also reminded of the promise in Genesis 3 that the woman&#8217;s offspring (Jesus) would bruise his (the serpent&#8217;s) head.  Literally blow a crushing blow to him and vanquish him.  I thought it was awesome that <em>Sing to the King<\/em> has the exact words, &#8220;Satan is vanquished and Jesus is King&#8221; in it.  I had no idea that there would be a section on &#8220;how to vanquish Satan&#8221; in the message.  I love it when God works like that.<\/p>\n<p>We had another awesome Truth Project small group meeting with some tough discussion.  We talked about the question &#8220;who is man&#8221; and how society generally teaches that man is basically good with no tendency for evil.  The Bible teaches the opposite.  It was a struggle for some people in the group to understand how children could be born into sin.  I have to admit that I was having a tough time coming up with an explanation.  I know the Bible says &#8220;in sin my mother conceived me&#8221; (Psalm 139) and &#8220;all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God&#8221; (Romans 3) but how do you argue that children are sinful to someone who doesn&#8217;t believe that the Bible is true (our group believes the Bible is true, I&#8217;m talking in general here)?<\/p>\n<p>I also assured the group that even though children are sinful, there is somehow a mystery that they can have great faith, even at the infant stage (at least I&#8217;m fairly certain the Greek implies this in the New Testament where Jesus talks about having the faith of a child).  This is something that we can never understand, one of those amazing mysteries of God that we can take joy in.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 5px 5px 0;float:left;height:50px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/sunday-recap-february-24-2008-how-to-vanquish-satan\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"595\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday was again a great day in the life of Living Word (as always). Songs for the service: Lord Most High &#8211; Harris\/Sadler Sing to the King &#8211; Foote How Deep the Father&#8217;s Love for Us &#8211; Townend Jesus, I Come &#8211; William T. Sleeper We&#8217;ve been talking about &#8220;the day the universe changed&#8221; for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}