{"id":3966,"date":"2025-09-02T18:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T01:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/?p=3966"},"modified":"2025-12-23T13:01:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:01:55","slug":"two-paths-sermon-from-luke-1128-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2025\/09\/02\/two-paths-sermon-from-luke-1128-36\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Paths sermon from Luke 11:28-36"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Greetings friends. I am posting the sermon I preached last Sunday at our home church of Littlerock Community Fellowship in Olympia, WA. The main point of the passage and my message was: <strong>Receive the light of God\u2019s Word in faith rather than rejecting it leading to condemnation and darkness. <\/strong>In this passage, Jesus clearly states that there are two paths, one lifelong response, and two ultimate destinations. Which will you choose, today and every day? You either receive His message, God&#8217;s Word, hearing and obeying it, or you reject His message, ignoring it, rationalizing your sin rather than repenting of it. And over time you move further and further along the path toward light or darkness, blessing or condemnation. May you choose Christ today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1. Receiving God\u2019s Word yields blessing. (28)<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2. Rejecting God\u2019s Word yields condemnation. (29-32)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3. Your response will spread and fill you. (33-36)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John 1:9-12 \u2013<em>\u201cThe true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.\u00a0<strong><sup>10\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet\u00a0the world did not know him.\u00a0<strong><sup>11\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>He came to\u00a0his own, and\u00a0his own people\u00a0did not receive him.\u00a0<strong><sup>12\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>But to all who did receive him,\u00a0who believed in his name,\u00a0he gave the right\u00a0to become\u00a0children of God.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2025-08-31 Sunday Morning Sermon\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gGQyJNMhvL0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings friends. I am posting the sermon I preached last Sunday at our home church of Littlerock Community Fellowship in Olympia, WA. The main point of the passage and my message was: Receive the light of God\u2019s Word in faith rather than rejecting it leading to condemnation and darkness. In this passage, Jesus clearly states &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2025\/09\/02\/two-paths-sermon-from-luke-1128-36\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two Paths sermon from Luke 11:28-36<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional-thoughts","category-messages-and-presentations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3967,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3966\/revisions\/3967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}