{"id":1375,"date":"2023-03-26T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2023-03-17T18:52:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T18:52:08","slug":"sermon20230326","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20230326\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greek and the Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sermonNotes2023\">\n<p>2023 Church Theme: Advancing God\u2019s Kingdom in the New Normalcy<br \/>\nScripture: 1 Corinthians 1:18-25<\/p>\n<p>Speaker: Dr. Clement Yeung<\/p>\n<div class=\"audio-container\"><audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/mp3\/English\/2023_0326_E.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><\/audio><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">1 Corinthians 1:18-25<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"text 1Cor-1-18\"><sup class=\"versenum\">18\u00a0<\/sup>For the message of the cross is foolishness\u00a0to those who are perishing,\u00a0but to us who are being saved\u00a0it is the power of God.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-28383\" class=\"text 1Cor-1-19\"><sup class=\"versenum\">19\u00a0<\/sup>For it is written:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"poetry top-05\">\n<p class=\"line\"><span class=\"text 1Cor-1-19\">\u201cI will destroy the wisdom of the wise;<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"indent-1\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text 1Cor-1-19\">the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"top-05\"><span id=\"en-NIV-28384\" class=\"text 1Cor-1-20\"><sup class=\"versenum\">20\u00a0<\/sup>Where is the wise person?\u00a0Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age?\u00a0Has not God made foolish\u00a0the wisdom of the world?<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-28385\" class=\"text 1Cor-1-21\"><sup class=\"versenum\">21\u00a0<\/sup>For since in the wisdom of God the world\u00a0through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save\u00a0those who believe.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-28386\" class=\"text 1Cor-1-22\"><sup class=\"versenum\">22\u00a0<\/sup>Jews demand signs\u00a0and Greeks look for wisdom,<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-28387\" class=\"text 1Cor-1-23\"><sup class=\"versenum\">23\u00a0<\/sup>but we preach Christ crucified:\u00a0a stumbling block\u00a0to Jews and foolishness\u00a0to Gentiles,<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-28388\" class=\"text 1Cor-1-24\"><sup class=\"versenum\">24\u00a0<\/sup>but to those whom God has called,\u00a0both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God\u00a0and the wisdom of God.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-28389\" class=\"text 1Cor-1-25\"><sup class=\"versenum\">25\u00a0<\/sup>For the foolishness\u00a0of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness\u00a0of God is stronger than human strength.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 Church Theme: Advancing God\u2019s Kingdom in the New Normalcy Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 Speaker: Dr. Clement Yeung 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 18\u00a0For the message of the cross is foolishness\u00a0to those who are perishing,\u00a0but to us who are being saved\u00a0it is the power of God.\u00a019\u00a0For it is written: \u201cI will destroy the wisdom of the wise; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20230326\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Greek and the Cross&#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":[19,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2023-sermon","category-outside-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375","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=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1378,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions\/1378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}