{"id":1144,"date":"2022-08-14T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2022-08-09T16:32:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T16:32:43","slug":"sermon20220814","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20220814\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilderness in Life, &#038; Life in Wilderness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span hidden=\"\">Wilderness in Life, &amp; Life in Wilderness<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"sermonNotes2022\">\n<p>2022 Church Theme: Advancing God\u2019s Kingdom in the New Normalcy<br \/>\nScripture: Romans 5:1-11 (NIV)<br \/>\nSpeaker: Mr. Aaron Garcia<\/p>\n<div class=\"audio-container\"><audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/mp3\/English\/2022_0814_E.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><\/audio><\/div>\n<p><u><strong>Romans 5:1-11 (NIV)<\/strong><\/u><br \/>\n<span class=\"text Dan-2-20\"><sup class=\"versenum\">1 <\/sup><\/span><span class=\"text Rom-5-1\">Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we\u00a0have peace\u00a0with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-28050\" class=\"text Rom-5-2\"><sup class=\"versenum\">2\u00a0<\/sup>through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we\u00a0boast in the hope\u00a0of the glory of God.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-28051\" class=\"text Rom-5-3\"><sup class=\"versenum\">3\u00a0<\/sup>Not only so, but we\u00a0also glory in our sufferings,\u00a0because we know that suffering produces perseverance;<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-28052\" class=\"text Rom-5-4\"><sup class=\"versenum\">4\u00a0<\/sup>perseverance, character; and character, hope.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-28053\" class=\"text Rom-5-5\"><sup class=\"versenum\">5\u00a0<\/sup>And hope\u00a0does not put us to shame, because God\u2019s love\u00a0has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit,\u00a0who has been given to us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-NIV-28054\" class=\"text Rom-5-6\"><sup class=\"versenum\">6\u00a0<\/sup>You see, at just the right time,\u00a0when we were still powerless,\u00a0Christ died for the ungodly.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-28055\" class=\"text Rom-5-7\"><sup class=\"versenum\">7\u00a0<\/sup>Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-28056\" class=\"text Rom-5-8\"><sup class=\"versenum\">8\u00a0<\/sup>But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-NIV-28057\" class=\"text Rom-5-9\"><sup class=\"versenum\">9\u00a0<\/sup>Since we have now been justified\u00a0by his blood,\u00a0how much more shall we be saved from God\u2019s wrath\u00a0through him!<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-28058\" class=\"text Rom-5-10\"><sup class=\"versenum\">10\u00a0<\/sup>For if, while we were God\u2019s enemies,\u00a0we were reconciled\u00a0to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-28059\" class=\"text Rom-5-11\"><sup class=\"versenum\">11\u00a0<\/sup>Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilderness in Life, &amp; Life in Wilderness 2022 Church Theme: Advancing God\u2019s Kingdom in the New Normalcy Scripture: Romans 5:1-11 (NIV) Speaker: Mr. Aaron Garcia Romans 5:1-11 (NIV) 1 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we\u00a0have peace\u00a0with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,\u00a02\u00a0through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20220814\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wilderness in Life, &#038; Life in Wilderness&#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":[13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2022-sermon","category-mr-alex-chan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","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=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1152,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}