{"id":1685,"date":"2024-04-14T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2024-04-19T04:36:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T04:36:45","slug":"sermon20240414","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20240414\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gospel and the Life of William Wilberforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sermonNotes2024\">\n<p>2024 Church Theme: Ready, Set, Grow: Journeying Together to Build Up the Church<br \/>\nScripture: Romans 5:1-10 (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_0414_E.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><\/audio><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Romans 5:1-10 (ESV)<\/span><br \/>\n<sup class=\"versenum\">1 <\/sup><span class=\"text Rom-5-1\">Therefore, since we have been justified by faith,\u00a0we<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-28033a\" data-link=\"[&lt;a href=&quot;#fen-ESV-28033a&quot; title=&quot;See footnote a&quot;&gt;a&lt;\/a&gt;]\">[<a title=\"See footnote a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Romans%205&amp;version=ESV#fen-ESV-28033a\">a<\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-28034\" class=\"text Rom-5-2\"><sup class=\"versenum\">2\u00a0<\/sup>Through him we have also\u00a0obtained access by faith<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-28034b\" data-link=\"[&lt;a href=&quot;#fen-ESV-28034b&quot; title=&quot;See footnote b&quot;&gt;b&lt;\/a&gt;]\">[<a title=\"See footnote b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Romans%205&amp;version=ESV#fen-ESV-28034b\">b<\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0into this grace\u00a0in which we stand, and\u00a0we<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-28034c\" data-link=\"[&lt;a href=&quot;#fen-ESV-28034c&quot; title=&quot;See footnote c&quot;&gt;c&lt;\/a&gt;]\">[<a title=\"See footnote c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Romans%205&amp;version=ESV#fen-ESV-28034c\">c<\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0rejoice<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-28034d\" data-link=\"[&lt;a href=&quot;#fen-ESV-28034d&quot; title=&quot;See footnote d&quot;&gt;d&lt;\/a&gt;]\">[<a title=\"See footnote d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Romans%205&amp;version=ESV#fen-ESV-28034d\">d<\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0in hope of the glory of God.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-28035\" class=\"text Rom-5-3\"><sup class=\"versenum\">3\u00a0<\/sup>Not only that, but we\u00a0rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering\u00a0produces endurance,<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-28036\" class=\"text Rom-5-4\"><sup class=\"versenum\">4\u00a0<\/sup>and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-28037\" class=\"text Rom-5-5\"><sup class=\"versenum\">5\u00a0<\/sup>and\u00a0hope does not put us to shame, because God&#8217;s love\u00a0has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-ESV-28038\" class=\"text Rom-5-6\"><sup class=\"versenum\">6\u00a0<\/sup>For\u00a0while we were still weak, at the right time\u00a0Christ died for the ungodly.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-28039\" class=\"text Rom-5-7\"><sup class=\"versenum\">7\u00a0<\/sup>For one will scarcely die for a righteous person\u2014though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die\u2014<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-28040\" class=\"text Rom-5-8\"><sup class=\"versenum\">8\u00a0<\/sup>but\u00a0God shows his love for us in that\u00a0while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-28041\" class=\"text Rom-5-9\"><sup class=\"versenum\">9\u00a0<\/sup>Since, therefore,\u00a0we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from\u00a0the wrath of God.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-28042\" class=\"text Rom-5-10\"><sup class=\"versenum\">10\u00a0<\/sup>For if\u00a0while we were enemies\u00a0we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by\u00a0his life.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 Church Theme: Ready, Set, Grow: Journeying Together to Build Up the Church Scripture: Romans 5:1-10 (ESV) Speaker: Rev. Paul Lee Romans 5:1-10 (ESV) 1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith,\u00a0we[a]\u00a0have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.\u00a02\u00a0Through him we have also\u00a0obtained access by faith[b]\u00a0into this grace\u00a0in which we stand, and\u00a0we[c]\u00a0rejoice[d]\u00a0in hope &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20240414\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Gospel and the Life of William Wilberforce&#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-1685","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\/1685","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=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1686,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions\/1686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}