{"id":1595,"date":"2023-12-31T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2023-12-25T20:58:42","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T20:58:42","slug":"sermon20231231","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20231231\/","title":{"rendered":"Safe in the Hands of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sermonNotes2023\">\n<p>2023 Church Theme: Advancing God\u2019s Kingdom in the New Normalcy<br \/>\nScripture: John 10:22-33<\/p>\n<p>Speaker: Rev. Mike Whittle<\/p>\n<div class=\"audio-container\"><audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/mp3\/English\/2023_1231_E.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><\/audio><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">John 10:22-33<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"text John-10-22\"><sup class=\"versenum\">22\u00a0<\/sup>Then came the Festival of Dedication<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-26504b\" data-link=\"[&lt;a href=&quot;#fen-NIV-26504b&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%2010&amp;version=NIV#fen-NIV-26504b\">b<\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0at Jerusalem. It was winter,<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26505\" class=\"text John-10-23\"><sup class=\"versenum\">23\u00a0<\/sup>and Jesus was in the temple courts walking in Solomon\u2019s Colonnade.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26506\" class=\"text John-10-24\"><sup class=\"versenum\">24\u00a0<\/sup>The Jews\u00a0who were there gathered around him, saying, \u201cHow long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-NIV-26507\" class=\"text John-10-25\"><sup class=\"versenum\">25\u00a0<\/sup>Jesus answered,\u00a0<span class=\"woj\">\u201cI did tell you,\u00a0but you do not believe. The works I do in my Father\u2019s name testify about me,<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26508\" class=\"text John-10-26\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">26\u00a0<\/sup>but you do not believe because you are not my sheep.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26509\" class=\"text John-10-27\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">27\u00a0<\/sup>My sheep listen to my voice; I know them,\u00a0and they follow me.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26510\" class=\"text John-10-28\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">28\u00a0<\/sup>I give them eternal life,\u00a0and they shall never perish;\u00a0no one will snatch them out of my hand.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26511\" class=\"text John-10-29\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">29\u00a0<\/sup>My Father, who has given them to me,\u00a0is greater than all<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-26511c\" data-link=\"[&lt;a href=&quot;#fen-NIV-26511c&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%2010&amp;version=NIV#fen-NIV-26511c\">c<\/a>]<\/sup>;\u00a0no one can snatch them out of my Father\u2019s hand.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26512\" class=\"text John-10-30\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">30\u00a0<\/sup>I and the Father are one.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-NIV-26513\" class=\"text John-10-31\"><sup class=\"versenum\">31\u00a0<\/sup>Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him,<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26514\" class=\"text John-10-32\"><sup class=\"versenum\">32\u00a0<\/sup>but Jesus said to them,\u00a0<span class=\"woj\">\u201cI have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-NIV-26515\" class=\"text John-10-33\"><sup class=\"versenum\">33\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cWe are not stoning you for any good work,\u201d they replied, \u201cbut for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 Church Theme: Advancing God\u2019s Kingdom in the New Normalcy Scripture: John 10:22-33 Speaker: Rev. Mike Whittle John 10:22-33 22\u00a0Then came the Festival of Dedication[b]\u00a0at Jerusalem. It was winter,\u00a023\u00a0and Jesus was in the temple courts walking in Solomon\u2019s Colonnade.\u00a024\u00a0The Jews\u00a0who were there gathered around him, saying, \u201cHow long will you keep us in suspense? If &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20231231\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Safe in the Hands 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":[19,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1595","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\/1595","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=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1596,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions\/1596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}