{"id":1100,"date":"2022-07-17T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2022-07-07T16:06:01","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T16:06:01","slug":"sermon20220717","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20220717\/","title":{"rendered":"Joining God in Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span hidden=\"\">Joining God in Action<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"sermonNotes2022\">\n<p>2022 Church Theme: Advancing God\u2019s Kingdom in the New Normalcy<br \/>\nScripture: John 17:15-26<br \/>\nSpeaker: Rev. Michael Lau<\/p>\n<div class=\"audio-container\"><audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/mp3\/English\/2022_0717_E.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/div>\n<p><u><strong>John 17:15-26<\/strong><\/u><br \/>\n<span id=\"en-NIV-26775\" class=\"text John-17-15\" style=\"font-size: revert;\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">15&nbsp;<\/sup>My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: revert;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span id=\"en-NIV-26776\" class=\"text John-17-16\" style=\"font-size: revert;\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">16&nbsp;<\/sup>They are not of the world, even as I am not of it.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: revert;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span id=\"en-NIV-26777\" class=\"text John-17-17\" style=\"font-size: revert;\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">17&nbsp;<\/sup>Sanctify them by&nbsp;the truth; your word is truth.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: revert;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span id=\"en-NIV-26778\" class=\"text John-17-18\" style=\"font-size: revert;\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">18&nbsp;<\/sup>As you sent me into the world,&nbsp;I have sent them into the world.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: revert;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span id=\"en-NIV-26779\" class=\"text John-17-19\" style=\"font-size: revert;\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">19&nbsp;<\/sup>For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"left-1 child-first-line-1\">\n<p><span class=\"text John-17-20\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">20&nbsp;<\/sup>\u201cMy prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message,<\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<span id=\"en-NIV-26781\" class=\"text John-17-21\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">21&nbsp;<\/sup>that all of them may be one,&nbsp;Father, just as you are in me and I am in you.&nbsp;May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.<\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<span id=\"en-NIV-26782\" class=\"text John-17-22\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">22&nbsp;<\/sup>I have given them the glory that you gave me,&nbsp;that they may be one as we are one\u2014<\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<span id=\"en-NIV-26783\" class=\"text John-17-23\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">23&nbsp;<\/sup>I in them and you in me\u2014so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me&nbsp;and have loved them&nbsp;even as you have loved me.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-NIV-26784\" class=\"text John-17-24\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">24&nbsp;<\/sup>\u201cFather, I want those you have given me&nbsp;to be with me where I am,&nbsp;and to see my glory,&nbsp;the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-NIV-26785\" class=\"text John-17-25\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">25&nbsp;<\/sup>\u201cRighteous Father, though the world does not know you,&nbsp;I know you, and they know that you have sent me.<\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<span id=\"en-NIV-26786\" class=\"text John-17-26\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">26&nbsp;<\/sup>I have made you&nbsp;known to them,&nbsp;and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them&nbsp;and that I myself may be in them.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joining God in Action 2022 Church Theme: Advancing God\u2019s Kingdom in the New Normalcy Scripture: John 17:15-26 Speaker: Rev. Michael Lau John 17:15-26 15&nbsp;My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.&nbsp;16&nbsp;They are not of the world, even as I am not of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20220717\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Joining God in Action&#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-1100","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\/1100","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=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1105,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}