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style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>And he told them this parable: &#8220;The ground of a certain rich man produced a good crop.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>He thought to himself, &#8216;What shall I do?<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>I have no place to store my crops.&#8217;<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Then he said, &#8216;This is what I&#8217;ll do.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>And I&#8217;ll say to myself, &#8220;You have plenty of good things laid up for many years.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.\u2019\u201d<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>But God said to him, &#8216;You fool!<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>This very night your life will be demanded from you.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?\u2019<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich toward God.\u201d<\/i><span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>(NIV1984)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">True life story:<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>The young man was just twenty-nine years old.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>He was married and had three children.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>All three children were under five years of age.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>He was an attorney in Illinois.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>One day he woke up with a headache.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>As the day went on, it got more painful.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Then he had difficulty seeing.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Then he had difficulty walking.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Then he went to the doctor.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>After running some tests the doctor said, \u201cYou have a brain tumor that will require special surgery right away.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>If you survive the surgery, then there could be a critical time of recovering for about a year.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>If you survive that, then each year after that you can be more assured of a full recovery.\u201d<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>The young man made it through the surgery.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>He made it through that first year.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Then he had this interview.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>A reporter asked him, \u201cHave you learned anything through this?\u201d<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>The man replied, \u201cYour life is on loan.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">We don\u2019t often look at our life from that perspective, do we?<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>We get up in the morning and go about our daily activities as though nothing will ever change.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>We plan vacations and careers.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>We establish goals and dreams.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>The younger we are the more likely we are to think that we have many many years left in our journey here on this earth.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Not necessarily so!<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">Both the account of this young lawyer from Illinois and the sermon text that we have before us today remind us of a very powerful truth.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>That truth, my friends, is this:<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"><i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\">Your Life Is On Loan!<\/i><\/b><span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>When we stop to realize that our life is simply \u201con loan\u201d that presents us with two options.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>We can live our life with the goal of storing up things for ourselves.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Or, we can live our life with the goal of becoming rich toward God.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">The incident which precipitated our text for today is one that is sadly all too common.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Look at the opening verse of our text.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Luke writes, <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\">\u201cSomeone in the crowd said to him, \u2018Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.\u2019\u201d<\/i><span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>To this very day it is amazing how often the death of a family member has the potential of unleashing a frantic scramble for their earthly possessions.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>I have seen the hurt, the anger and the long-term repercussions that are left in the wake of someone\u2019s death as people fight over their estate.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">Jesus\u2019 response to this man\u2019s request reveals to us the main truth that we want to remember today:<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"><i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\">Your life is on loan!<\/i><\/b><span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>To help us understand how important it is to realize this truth our dear Lord and Savior gives to us the Parable of the Rich Fool.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>This parable is certainly not difficult to understand, is it?<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>A man who had already been blessed with a great deal of wealth was faced with a \u201cproblem\u201d that many people would love to have\u2014 his farm, his \u201cbusiness,\u201d was having an exceptionally productive year!<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>A modern-day parallel might include someone who receives a really nice bonus at work, someone whose stock portfolio has done rather well over the course of the years, or someone who has indeed received a sizable inheritance from a friend or a relative.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">Now for the record, my friends, there is absolutely nothing \u201cwrong\u201d with being wealthy.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>For the record, there was absolutely nothing \u201cwrong\u201d with this man planning for the future by building bigger barns.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>What was \u201cwrong\u201d was that this man thought that his wealth was the result of his own hard work.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>It never occurred to him that it was the good Lord who had blessed him with this wealth.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>(See James 1:17)<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>It never occurred to him that it was the good Lord who caused the sun to shine and the rains to fall so that his fields could <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\">\u201cproduce a good crop.\u201d<\/i><span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>(See Mathew 5:45)<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>It never occurred to him to use his wealth to help others.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>The only thing that occurred to him was to store up even more things for himself!<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>We hear him say in our text, <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\">\u201cThis is what I\u2019ll do.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>And I\u2019ll say to myself, \u2018You have plenty of good things laid up for many years.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.\u2019\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">Do we have to battle against this kind of greed, my friends?<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>We most certainly do!<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>If for some reason the good Lord has us living from paycheck to paycheck, if for some reason the good Lord has not blessed us with as many material possessions as those around us our old sinful nature can easily cause that green-eyed monster called greed or envy to raise its ugly head in our heart and in our life.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>If on the other hand the good Lord has indeed blessed us with material wealth, if on the other hand the good Lord has indeed blessed us with much more than our <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\">\u201cdaily bread,\u201d<\/i> we need to be extremely careful that we don\u2019t adopt the attitude of the rich fool here in our text\u2014 <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\">\u201cTake life easy; eat, drink and be merry.\u201d<\/i><span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>As the children of God we would be far better off remembering what the apostle Paul says to Timothy, <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\">\u201cCommand those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life\u201d <\/i>(I Timothy 6:17-19).<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">Paul\u2019s advice to Timothy ties in nicely with the words of our Savior here in our text, <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\">\u201cThis is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich toward God.\u201d<\/i><span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>We can squander and waste our entire life storing up things for ourselves, or we can enlarge and enhance our life by striving to be <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\">\u201crich toward God.\u201d<\/i><span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Which goal are we to have as the saved children of God?<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>That\u2019s obviously a rhetorical question, isn\u2019t it?<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">How might we describe the life of a Christian whose goal is to be <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\">\u201crich toward God\u201d<\/i>?<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Here is where our text for today dovetails nicely with our sermon text from last Sunday.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>When we spend every single day of our life walking with Jesus we will indeed be <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\">\u201crich toward God.\u201d<\/i><span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>When we strive by God\u2019s grace to stay focused on the cross\u2014 the forgiveness and the peace, the confidence and the strength which only this cross (Pointing to the cross) can bring to us\u2014 we will indeed be <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\">\u201crich toward God.\u201d<\/i><span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>When we consider God\u2019s Word and God\u2019s Sacraments the most precious possessions we have been given we will indeed be <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\">\u201crich toward God.\u201d<\/i><span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>When our relationship with our Lord is more important to us than going out and \u201chaving fun\u201d with our friends or going out and enjoying the \u201cpleasures\u201d this world offers to us then we will indeed be <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\">\u201crich toward God.\u201d<\/i><span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>When we strive by God\u2019s strength to live our life in such a way that everyone is able to see that we consider our greatest treasure to be the treasure that is stored up waiting for us in heaven then we will indeed be <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\">\u201crich toward God.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">Here is where I need to ask you to spend some time this week examining your own heart and your own life, my friends.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Is your goal in life to simply store up things for yourself?<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Or, is your goal in life to be rich toward God?<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Do the outward actions of your life accurately reflect your goal in life?<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Or, do we say one thing while we are here in church, but we do something totally different the rest of the week?<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Not only do we all need to ask ourselves these difficult questions, but today is a very good day to start asking these difficult questions.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Why is today a good day to start asking such questions?<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Because today, my friends, Jesus Himself comes to us here in His holy Word and He reminds us:<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"><i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\">Your Life Is On Loan!<\/i><\/b><span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Look at what He says in verse 20 of our text, <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\">\u201cBut God said to him, \u2018You fool!<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>This very night your life will be demanded from you.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?\u2019\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">True life story:<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>None of us knows how long it will be before the Lord demands our life from us.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>People have been sitting in their office quietly doing their work when suddenly a jetliner comes crashing through the wall.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>People have been on their way home or on their way to a baseball game when suddenly a bridge they have crossed hundreds of times unexpectedly collapses in an earthquake.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>People have gone to the doctor for a regular routine physical when suddenly they are told that they have an illness or a disease for which medical science can do little or nothing to cure them.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">Our life is indeed \u201con loan\u201d from God, my friends.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>One day\u2014 we don\u2019t know exactly when but one day\u2014 God will indeed demand our life back and we will required to stand before His judgment throne to give an account of how we used the time that God gave to us here on this earth.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>(See Matthew 12:36; Matthew 25:14-30; Romans 14:12)<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Does that reality need to frighten us?<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Not at all! When the focus of our life is the cross of Calvary\u2019s hill (Pointing to the cross), when the goal of our life is to be <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\">\u201crich toward God\u201d <\/i>then no matter how much or how little time we have left here on this earth we will indeed be ready when the good Lord comes to us and says, \u201cIt\u2019s time to come Home.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">My prayer then this morning, my friends, is that each and every one of us will indeed live our life in a way that enables us to look into a mirror and say:<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Remember\u2014 your life is on loan!<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">To God be the glory!<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">Amen<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination:none\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"postie-attachments\">Download sermon audio ::  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingwordpetaluma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Pentecost-11-08-25-19.mp3\">Pentecost-11-08-25-19.MP3<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost August 25, 2019 Luke 12:13-21 Your Life Is On Loan! &nbsp; Someone in the crowd said to him, &#8220;Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.&#8221;&nbsp; Jesus replied, &#8220;Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?\u201d&nbsp; Then he said to them, &#8220;Watch out!&nbsp; Be on your guard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.livingwordpetaluma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.livingwordpetaluma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.livingwordpetaluma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.livingwordpetaluma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.livingwordpetaluma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.livingwordpetaluma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.livingwordpetaluma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.livingwordpetaluma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.livingwordpetaluma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}