{"id":1617,"date":"2024-01-28T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2024-01-25T12:16:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T12:16:40","slug":"sermon20240128","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20240128\/","title":{"rendered":"The Five Purposes of the Church: (1) Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sermonNotes2024\">\n<p>2024 Church Theme: Ready, Set, Grow: Journeying Together to Build Up the Church<br \/>\nScripture: Deuteronomy 6:4-13 (ESV)<\/p>\n<p>Speaker: Rev. Paul Lee<\/p>\n<div class=\"audio-container\"><audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/mp3\/English\/2024_0128_E.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><\/audio><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Deuteronomy 6:4-13 (ESV)<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"en-ESV-5091\" class=\"text Deut-6-4\"><sup class=\"versenum\">4\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cHear, O Israel:\u00a0The\u00a0<span class=\"small-caps\">Lord<\/span>\u00a0our God, the\u00a0<span class=\"small-caps\">Lord<\/span>\u00a0is one.<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-5091b\" data-link=\"[&lt;a href=&quot;#fen-ESV-5091b&quot; title=&quot;See footnote b&quot;&gt;b&lt;\/a&gt;]\">[<a title=\"See footnote b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Deuteronomy+6&amp;version=ESV#fen-ESV-5091b\">b<\/a>]<\/sup><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-5092\" class=\"text Deut-6-5\"><sup class=\"versenum\">5\u00a0<\/sup>You\u00a0shall love the\u00a0<span class=\"small-caps\">Lord<\/span>\u00a0your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-5093\" class=\"text Deut-6-6\"><sup class=\"versenum\">6\u00a0<\/sup>And\u00a0these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-5094\" class=\"text Deut-6-7\"><sup class=\"versenum\">7\u00a0<\/sup>You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-5095\" class=\"text Deut-6-8\"><sup class=\"versenum\">8\u00a0<\/sup>You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-5096\" class=\"text Deut-6-9\"><sup class=\"versenum\">9\u00a0<\/sup>You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-ESV-5097\" class=\"text Deut-6-10\"><sup class=\"versenum\">10\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cAnd when the\u00a0<span class=\"small-caps\">Lord<\/span>\u00a0your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you\u2014with great and good cities\u00a0that you did not build,<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-5098\" class=\"text Deut-6-11\"><sup class=\"versenum\">11\u00a0<\/sup>and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant\u2014and when you eat and are full,<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-5099\" class=\"text Deut-6-12\"><sup class=\"versenum\">12\u00a0<\/sup>then take care lest you forget the\u00a0<span class=\"small-caps\">Lord<\/span>, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-5100\" class=\"text Deut-6-13\"><sup class=\"versenum\">13\u00a0<\/sup>It is\u00a0the\u00a0<span class=\"small-caps\">Lord<\/span>\u00a0your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and\u00a0by his name you shall swear.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 Church Theme: Ready, Set, Grow: Journeying Together to Build Up the Church Scripture: Deuteronomy 6:4-13 (ESV) Speaker: Rev. Paul Lee Deuteronomy 6:4-13 (ESV) 4\u00a0\u201cHear, O Israel:\u00a0The\u00a0Lord\u00a0our God, the\u00a0Lord\u00a0is one.[b]\u00a05\u00a0You\u00a0shall love the\u00a0Lord\u00a0your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.\u00a06\u00a0And\u00a0these words that I command you today shall be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20240128\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Five Purposes of the Church: (1) Worship&#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":[21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2024-sermon","category-rev-paul-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617","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=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1618,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions\/1618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}