{"id":1386,"date":"2023-04-02T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2023-03-30T17:47:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T17:47:03","slug":"sermon20230402","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20230402\/","title":{"rendered":"The Faithful Servant of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sermonNotes2023\">\n<p>2023 Church Theme: Advancing God\u2019s Kingdom in the New Normalcy<br \/>\nScripture: Luke\u00a0 19:28-40<\/p>\n<p>Speaker: Mr. Alex Chan<\/p>\n<div class=\"audio-container\"><audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/mp3\/English\/2023_0402_E.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><\/audio><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Luke\u00a0 19:28-40<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"text Luke-19-28\"><sup class=\"versenum\">28\u00a0<\/sup>After Jesus had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-25761\" class=\"text Luke-19-29\"><sup class=\"versenum\">29\u00a0<\/sup>As he approached Bethphage and Bethany\u00a0at the hill called the Mount of Olives,\u00a0he sent two of his disciples, saying to them,<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-25762\" class=\"text Luke-19-30\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">30\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cGo to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-25763\" class=\"text Luke-19-31\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">31\u00a0<\/sup>If anyone asks you, \u2018Why are you untying it?\u2019 say, \u2018The Lord needs it.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-NIV-25764\" class=\"text Luke-19-32\"><sup class=\"versenum\">32\u00a0<\/sup>Those who were sent ahead went and found it just as he had told them.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-25765\" class=\"text Luke-19-33\"><sup class=\"versenum\">33\u00a0<\/sup>As they were untying the colt, its owners asked them, \u201cWhy are you untying the colt?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-NIV-25766\" class=\"text Luke-19-34\"><sup class=\"versenum\">34\u00a0<\/sup>They replied, \u201cThe Lord needs it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-NIV-25767\" class=\"text Luke-19-35\"><sup class=\"versenum\">35\u00a0<\/sup>They brought it to Jesus, threw their cloaks on the colt and put Jesus on it.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-25768\" class=\"text Luke-19-36\"><sup class=\"versenum\">36\u00a0<\/sup>As he went along, people spread their cloaks\u00a0on the road.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-NIV-25769\" class=\"text Luke-19-37\"><sup class=\"versenum\">37\u00a0<\/sup>When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives,\u00a0the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"poetry top-05\">\n<p class=\"line\"><span id=\"en-NIV-25770\" class=\"text Luke-19-38\"><sup class=\"versenum\">38\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cBlessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!\u201d<span style=\"font-size: 10px;\"> \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry top-05\">\n<p class=\"line\"><span class=\"text Luke-19-38\">\u201cPeace in heaven and glory in the highest!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"top-05\"><span id=\"en-NIV-25771\" class=\"text Luke-19-39\"><sup class=\"versenum\">39\u00a0<\/sup>Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, \u201cTeacher, rebuke your disciples!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-NIV-25772\" class=\"text Luke-19-40\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">40\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cI tell you,\u201d<\/span>\u00a0he replied,\u00a0<span class=\"woj\">\u201cif they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"top-05\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 Church Theme: Advancing God\u2019s Kingdom in the New Normalcy Scripture: Luke\u00a0 19:28-40 Speaker: Mr. Alex Chan Luke\u00a0 19:28-40 28\u00a0After Jesus had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.\u00a029\u00a0As he approached Bethphage and Bethany\u00a0at the hill called the Mount of Olives,\u00a0he sent two of his disciples, saying to them,\u00a030\u00a0\u201cGo to the village &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20230402\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Faithful Servant of God&#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":[19,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2023-sermon","category-mr-alex-chan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386","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=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1387,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions\/1387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}