{"id":345,"date":"2020-08-09T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mgc.ca\/YM\/?p=345"},"modified":"2020-08-08T15:57:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T15:57:58","slug":"sermon20200809","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20200809\/","title":{"rendered":"The True King \u2013 Making God First When Times Are Difficult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span hidden=\"\">The True King \u2013 Making God First When Times Are Difficult<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"sermonNotes2020\">\n<div class=\"sermonInfoTitle\">\n2020 Church Theme: Make Disciples, Journey Together<br \/>\nScripture: 1 Samuel 8:6-9, 19-22 (NIV)<br \/>\nSpeaker: Mr. Aaron Garcia<\/div>\n<div class=\"audio-container\"><audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"http:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/mp3\/English\/2020_0809_Y.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/div>\n<p><u><b>1 Samuel 8:6-9<\/b><\/u>(NIV)<br \/>\n6But when they said, \u201cGive us a king to lead us,\u201d this displeased Samuel; so he prayed to the Lord. 7And the Lordtold him: \u201cListen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king. 8As they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are doing to you. 9Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will claim as his rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><u><b>1 Samuel 8:19-22<\/b><\/u>(NIV)<br \/>\n19But the people refused to listen to Samuel. \u201cNo!\u201d they said. \u201cWe want a king over us. 20Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles.\u201d<br \/>\n21When Samuel heard all that the people said, he repeated it before the Lord. 22The Lordanswered, \u201cListen to them and give them a king.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The True King \u2013 Making God First When Times Are Difficult 2020 Church Theme: Make Disciples, Journey Together Scripture: 1 Samuel 8:6-9, 19-22 (NIV) Speaker: Mr. Aaron Garcia 1 Samuel 8:6-9(NIV) 6But when they said, \u201cGive us a king to lead us,\u201d this displeased Samuel; so he prayed to the Lord. 7And the Lordtold him: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20200809\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The True King \u2013 Making God First When Times Are Difficult&#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":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-sermon","category-mr-aaron-garcia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","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=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}