{"id":1294,"date":"2023-01-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2023-01-02T14:44:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T14:44:21","slug":"sermon20230101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20230101\/","title":{"rendered":"Serving the Lord with Hope in Unsettled Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sermonNotes2023\">\n<p>2023 Church Theme: Advancing God\u2019s Kingdom in the New Normalcy<br \/>\nScripture: Revelation 22:12-21<br \/>\nSpeaker: Rev. Jimmy Li<\/p>\n<div class=\"audio-container\"><audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/mp3\/English\/2023_0101_E.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><\/audio><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Revelation 22:12-21<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"text Rev-22-12\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">12\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cLook, I am coming soon!\u00a0My reward is with me,\u00a0and I will give to each person according to what they have done.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-31094\" class=\"text Rev-22-13\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">13\u00a0<\/sup>I am the Alpha and the Omega,\u00a0the First and the Last,\u00a0the Beginning and the End.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-NIV-31095\" class=\"text Rev-22-14\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">14\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cBlessed are those who wash their robes,\u00a0that they may have the right to the tree of life\u00a0and may go through the gates\u00a0into the city.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-31096\" class=\"text Rev-22-15\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">15\u00a0<\/sup>Outside\u00a0are the dogs,\u00a0those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-NIV-31097\" class=\"text Rev-22-16\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">16\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cI, Jesus,\u00a0have sent my angel\u00a0to give you<sup class=\"footnote\" style=\"font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; display: inline;\" data-fn=\"#fen-NIV-31097a\" data-link=\"[&lt;a href=&quot;#fen-NIV-31097a&quot; title=&quot;See footnote a&quot;&gt;a&lt;\/a&gt;]\">[<a title=\"See footnote a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Revelation%2022&amp;version=NIV#fen-NIV-31097a\">a<\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0this testimony for the churches.\u00a0I am the Root\u00a0and the Offspring of David,\u00a0and the bright Morning Star.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"top-05\"><span id=\"en-NIV-31098\" class=\"text Rev-22-17\"><sup class=\"versenum\">17\u00a0<\/sup>The Spirit\u00a0and the bride\u00a0say, \u201cCome!\u201d And let the one who hears say, \u201cCome!\u201d Let the one who is thirsty come; and let the one who wishes take the free gift of the water of life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"top-1\"><span id=\"en-NIV-31099\" class=\"text Rev-22-18\"><sup class=\"versenum\">18\u00a0<\/sup>I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this scroll:\u00a0If anyone adds anything to them,\u00a0God will add to that person the plagues described in this scroll.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-31100\" class=\"text Rev-22-19\"><sup class=\"versenum\">19\u00a0<\/sup>And if anyone takes words away\u00a0from this scroll of prophecy,\u00a0God will take away from that person any share in the tree of life\u00a0and in the Holy City, which are described in this scroll.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-NIV-31101\" class=\"text Rev-22-20\"><sup class=\"versenum\">20\u00a0<\/sup>He who testifies to these things\u00a0says,\u00a0<span class=\"woj\">\u201cYes, I am coming soon.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text Rev-22-20\">Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-NIV-31102\" class=\"text Rev-22-21\"><sup class=\"versenum\">21\u00a0<\/sup>The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God\u2019s people.\u00a0Amen.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 Church Theme: Advancing God\u2019s Kingdom in the New Normalcy Scripture: Revelation 22:12-21 Speaker: Rev. Jimmy Li Revelation 22:12-21 12\u00a0\u201cLook, I am coming soon!\u00a0My reward is with me,\u00a0and I will give to each person according to what they have done.\u00a013\u00a0I am the Alpha and the Omega,\u00a0the First and the Last,\u00a0the Beginning and the End. 14\u00a0\u201cBlessed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20230101\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Serving the Lord with Hope in Unsettled Times&#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":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2023-sermon","category-rev-jimmy-li"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","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=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1298,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions\/1298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}