{"id":1587,"date":"2023-12-24T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2023-12-21T00:00:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T00:00:10","slug":"sermon20231224","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20231224\/","title":{"rendered":"The Birth of Jesus Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sermonNotes2023\">\n<p>2023 Church Theme: Advancing God\u2019s Kingdom in the New Normalcy<br \/>\nScripture: John 1:1-14 (ESV)<\/p>\n<p>Speaker: Pastor Paul Lee<\/p>\n<div class=\"audio-container\"><audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/mp3\/English\/2023_1224_E.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><\/audio><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">John 1:1-14 (ESV)<\/span><br \/>\n<sup class=\"versenum\">1 <\/sup><span class=\"text John-1-1\">In the beginning was\u00a0the Word, and\u00a0the Word was with God, and\u00a0the Word was God.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-26036\" class=\"text John-1-2\"><sup class=\"versenum\">2\u00a0<\/sup>He was in the beginning with God.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-26037\" class=\"text John-1-3\"><sup class=\"versenum\">3\u00a0<\/sup>All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-26038\" class=\"text John-1-4\"><sup class=\"versenum\">4\u00a0<\/sup>In him was life,<sup class=\"footnote\" style=\"font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; display: inline;\" data-fn=\"#fen-ESV-26038a\" data-link=\"[&lt;a href=&quot;#fen-ESV-26038a&quot; title=&quot;See footnote a&quot;&gt;a&lt;\/a&gt;]\">[<a title=\"See footnote a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John%201&amp;version=ESV#fen-ESV-26038a\">a<\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0and\u00a0the life was the light of men.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-26039\" class=\"text John-1-5\"><sup class=\"versenum\">5\u00a0<\/sup>The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-ESV-26040\" class=\"text John-1-6\"><sup class=\"versenum\">6\u00a0<\/sup>There was a man\u00a0sent from God, whose name was\u00a0John.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-26041\" class=\"text John-1-7\"><sup class=\"versenum\">7\u00a0<\/sup>He came as a\u00a0witness, to bear witness about the light,\u00a0that all might believe through him.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-26042\" class=\"text John-1-8\"><sup class=\"versenum\">8\u00a0<\/sup>He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-ESV-26043\" class=\"text John-1-9\"><sup class=\"versenum\">9\u00a0<\/sup>The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-26044\" class=\"text John-1-10\"><sup class=\"versenum\">10\u00a0<\/sup>He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet\u00a0the world did not know him.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-26045\" class=\"text John-1-11\"><sup class=\"versenum\">11\u00a0<\/sup>He came to\u00a0his own,<sup class=\"footnote\" style=\"font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; display: inline;\" data-fn=\"#fen-ESV-26045b\" data-link=\"[&lt;a href=&quot;#fen-ESV-26045b&quot; title=&quot;See footnote b&quot;&gt;b&lt;\/a&gt;]\">[<a title=\"See footnote b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John%201&amp;version=ESV#fen-ESV-26045b\">b<\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0and\u00a0his own people<sup class=\"footnote\" style=\"font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; display: inline;\" data-fn=\"#fen-ESV-26045c\" data-link=\"[&lt;a href=&quot;#fen-ESV-26045c&quot; title=&quot;See footnote c&quot;&gt;c&lt;\/a&gt;]\">[<a title=\"See footnote c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John%201&amp;version=ESV#fen-ESV-26045c\">c<\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0did not receive him.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-26046\" class=\"text John-1-12\"><sup class=\"versenum\">12\u00a0<\/sup>But to all who did receive him,\u00a0who believed in his name,\u00a0he gave the right\u00a0to become\u00a0children of God,<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-26047\" class=\"text John-1-13\"><sup class=\"versenum\">13\u00a0<\/sup>who\u00a0were born,\u00a0not of blood\u00a0nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-ESV-26048\" class=\"text John-1-14\"><sup class=\"versenum\">14\u00a0<\/sup>And\u00a0the Word\u00a0became flesh and\u00a0dwelt among us,\u00a0and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son<sup class=\"footnote\" style=\"font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; display: inline;\" data-fn=\"#fen-ESV-26048d\" data-link=\"[&lt;a href=&quot;#fen-ESV-26048d&quot; title=&quot;See footnote d&quot;&gt;d&lt;\/a&gt;]\">[<a title=\"See footnote d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John%201&amp;version=ESV#fen-ESV-26048d\">d<\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0from the Father, full of\u00a0grace and\u00a0truth.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 Church Theme: Advancing God\u2019s Kingdom in the New Normalcy Scripture: John 1:1-14 (ESV) Speaker: Pastor Paul Lee John 1:1-14 (ESV) 1 In the beginning was\u00a0the Word, and\u00a0the Word was with God, and\u00a0the Word was God.\u00a02\u00a0He was in the beginning with God.\u00a03\u00a0All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20231224\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Birth of Jesus Christ&#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":[19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2023-sermon","category-pastor-paul-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587","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=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1590,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions\/1590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}