{"id":29803,"date":"2025-12-21T13:26:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T13:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=29803"},"modified":"2025-12-21T13:26:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T13:26:44","slug":"predictions-that-came-true","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?ctc_sermon=predictions-that-came-true","title":{"rendered":"Predictions that came true"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>First Reading <\/u><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Isaiah 7.9b\u201316<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you do not stand firm in your faith you will not stand at all. Again the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;spoke to Ahaz, saying,&nbsp;Ask a sign of the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;your God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven.&nbsp;But Ahaz said, I will not ask, and I will not put the&nbsp;Lord to the test.&nbsp;Then Isaiah said: \u2018Hear then, O&nbsp;house of David! Is it too little for you to weary mortals, that you weary my God also?&nbsp;Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look, the young woman is with child and shall bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel. He shall eat curds and honey by the time he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good.&nbsp;For before the child knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land before whose two kings you are in dread will be deserted.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is the word of the Lord<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>All&nbsp; &nbsp; <\/em><\/strong><strong>Thanks be to God<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Reading &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Isaiah 7.9b\u201316 If you do not stand firm in your faith you will not stand at all. Again the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;spoke to Ahaz, saying,&nbsp;Ask a sign of the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;your God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven.&nbsp;But Ahaz said, I will not ask, and I will not put the&nbsp;Lord to the test.&nbsp;Then Isaiah&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":24323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"ctc_sermon_topic":[],"ctc_sermon_book":[428],"ctc_sermon_series":[358,361],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[404],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"class_list":["post-29803","ctc_sermon","type-ctc_sermon","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ctc_sermon_book-isaiah","ctc_sermon_series-christmas","ctc_sermon_series-sunday-morning","ctc_sermon_speaker-roy-tarbox-llm","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/29803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_sermon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/29803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29805,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/29803\/revisions\/29805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_topic&post=29803"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_book&post=29803"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_series&post=29803"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_speaker&post=29803"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_tag&post=29803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}