{"id":1640,"date":"2024-02-25T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2024-02-21T19:51:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T19:51:09","slug":"sermon20240225","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20240225\/","title":{"rendered":"The Five Purposes of the Church: \u00a0\u00a0(5) Mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sermonNotes2024\">\n<p>2024 Church Theme: Ready, Set, Grow: Journeying Together to Build Up the Church<br \/>\nScripture: Luke 4:38-40, 6:35-36 (ESV)<\/p>\n<p>Speaker: Pastor Aaron Garcia<\/p>\n<div class=\"audio-container\"><audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/mp3\/English\/2024_0225_E.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><\/audio><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Luke 4:38-40, 6:35-36 (ESV) <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"text Luke-4-38\"><sup class=\"versenum\">38\u00a0<\/sup>And he arose and left the synagogue and entered Simon&#8217;s house. Now\u00a0Simon&#8217;s mother-in-law was ill with a high fever, and they appealed to him on her behalf.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-25094\" class=\"text Luke-4-39\"><sup class=\"versenum\">39\u00a0<\/sup>And he stood over her and\u00a0rebuked the fever, and it left her, and immediately she rose and began to serve them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-ESV-25095\" class=\"text Luke-4-40\"><sup class=\"versenum\">40\u00a0<\/sup>Now when the sun was setting, all those who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to him, and\u00a0he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-ESV-25173\" class=\"text Luke-6-35\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">35\u00a0<\/sup>But\u00a0love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and\u00a0you will be sons of\u00a0the Most High, for\u00a0he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-25174\" class=\"text Luke-6-36\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">36\u00a0<\/sup>Be merciful, even as\u00a0your Father is merciful.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 Church Theme: Ready, Set, Grow: Journeying Together to Build Up the Church Scripture: Luke 4:38-40, 6:35-36 (ESV) Speaker: Pastor Aaron Garcia Luke 4:38-40, 6:35-36 (ESV) 38\u00a0And he arose and left the synagogue and entered Simon&#8217;s house. Now\u00a0Simon&#8217;s mother-in-law was ill with a high fever, and they appealed to him on her behalf.\u00a039\u00a0And he stood &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20240225\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Five Purposes of the Church: \u00a0\u00a0(5) Mercy&#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":[21,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2024-sermon","category-pastor-aaron-garcia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640","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=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1641,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}