{"id":1065,"date":"2022-06-05T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/?p=1065"},"modified":"2022-05-30T15:17:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T15:17:15","slug":"sermon20220605","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20220605\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vital Ministry of the Holy Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span hidden=\"\">The Vital Ministry of the Holy Spirit<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"sermonNotes2022\">\n<p>2022 Church Theme: Advancing God\u2019s Kingdom in the New Normalcy<br \/>\nScripture: John 16:1-15<br \/>\nSpeaker: Rev. Michael Lau<\/p>\n<div class=\"audio-container\"><audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/mp3\/English\/2022_0605_E.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><\/audio><\/div>\n<p><u><strong>John 16:1-15<\/strong><\/u><br \/>\n<span class=\"text Acts-1-12\"><sup class=\"versenum\">1 <\/sup><\/span><span id=\"en-NIV-26728\" class=\"text John-16-1\"><span class=\"woj\">\u201cAll this\u00a0I have told you so that you will not fall away.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26729\" class=\"text John-16-2\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">2\u00a0<\/sup>They will put you out of the synagogue;\u00a0in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26730\" class=\"text John-16-3\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">3\u00a0<\/sup>They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26731\" class=\"text John-16-4\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">4\u00a0<\/sup>I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember\u00a0that I warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you,<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26732\" class=\"text John-16-5\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">5\u00a0<\/sup>but now I am going to him who sent me.\u00a0None of you asks me, \u2018Where are you going?\u2019<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26733\" class=\"text John-16-6\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">6\u00a0<\/sup>Rather, you are filled with grief\u00a0because I have said these things.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26734\" class=\"text John-16-7\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">7\u00a0<\/sup>But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate\u00a0will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26735\" class=\"text John-16-8\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">8\u00a0<\/sup>When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment:<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26736\" class=\"text John-16-9\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">9\u00a0<\/sup>about sin,\u00a0because people do not believe in me;<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26737\" class=\"text John-16-10\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">10\u00a0<\/sup>about righteousness,\u00a0because I am going to the Father,\u00a0where you can see me no longer;<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26738\" class=\"text John-16-11\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">11\u00a0<\/sup>and about judgment, because the prince of this world\u00a0now stands condemned.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-NIV-26739\" class=\"text John-16-12\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">12\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cI have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26740\" class=\"text John-16-13\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">13\u00a0<\/sup>But when he, the Spirit of truth,\u00a0comes, he will guide you into all the truth.\u00a0He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26741\" class=\"text John-16-14\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">14\u00a0<\/sup>He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26742\" class=\"text John-16-15\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">15\u00a0<\/sup>All that belongs to the Father is mine.\u00a0That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"poetry top-05\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry top-05\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vital Ministry of the Holy Spirit 2022 Church Theme: Advancing God\u2019s Kingdom in the New Normalcy Scripture: John 16:1-15 Speaker: Rev. Michael Lau John 16:1-15 1 \u201cAll this\u00a0I have told you so that you will not fall away.\u00a02\u00a0They will put you out of the synagogue;\u00a0in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20220605\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Vital Ministry of the Holy Spirit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2022-sermon","category-rev-michael-lau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1066,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions\/1066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}