{"id":1518,"date":"2023-09-17T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2023-09-05T15:39:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T15:39:22","slug":"sermon20230917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20230917\/","title":{"rendered":"God\u2019s Kingdom in the Here and Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sermonNotes2023\">\n<p>2023 Church Theme: Advancing God\u2019s Kingdom in the New Normalcy<br \/>\nScripture: Matthew 6:25-34<\/p>\n<p>Speaker: Pastor Nestor Abdon<\/p>\n<div class=\"audio-container\"><audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/mp3\/English\/2023_0917_E.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><\/audio><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Matthew 6:25-34<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"text Matt-6-25\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">25\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cTherefore I tell you, do not worry\u00a0about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-23309\" class=\"text Matt-6-26\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">26\u00a0<\/sup>Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.\u00a0Are you not much more valuable than they?<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-23310\" class=\"text Matt-6-27\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">27\u00a0<\/sup>Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-NIV-23311\" class=\"text Matt-6-28\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">28\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cAnd why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-23312\" class=\"text Matt-6-29\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">29\u00a0<\/sup>Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor\u00a0was dressed like one of these.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-23313\" class=\"text Matt-6-30\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">30\u00a0<\/sup>If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you\u2014you of little faith?<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-23314\" class=\"text Matt-6-31\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">31\u00a0<\/sup>So do not worry, saying, \u2018What shall we eat?\u2019 or \u2018What shall we drink?\u2019 or \u2018What shall we wear?\u2019<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-23315\" class=\"text Matt-6-32\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">32\u00a0<\/sup>For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-23316\" class=\"text Matt-6-33\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">33\u00a0<\/sup>But seek first his kingdom\u00a0and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-23317\" class=\"text Matt-6-34\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">34\u00a0<\/sup>Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 Church Theme: Advancing God\u2019s Kingdom in the New Normalcy Scripture: Matthew 6:25-34 Speaker: Pastor Nestor Abdon Matthew 6:25-34 25\u00a0\u201cTherefore I tell you, do not worry\u00a0about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?\u00a026\u00a0Look at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20230917\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;God\u2019s Kingdom in the Here and Now&#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-1518","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\/1518","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=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1521,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions\/1521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}