{"id":500,"date":"2020-12-27T09:30:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T09:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mgc.ca\/YM\/?p=500"},"modified":"2021-01-01T00:12:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T00:12:29","slug":"sermon20201227","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20201227\/","title":{"rendered":"The Light Has Come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span hidden=\"\">The Light Has Come<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"sermonNotes2020\">\n<div class=\"sermonInfoTitle\">2020 Church Theme: Make Disciples, Journey Together<br \/>\nScripture: John 1:1-14, 3:19, 8:12 (NIV)<br \/>\nSpeaker: Mr. Alex Chan<\/div>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cXCPNqkcaTY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio-container\"><audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"http:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/mp3\/English\/2020_1227_E.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/div>\n<p><u><b>John 1:1-14<\/b><\/u>(NIV)<br \/>\n<b>The Word Became Flesh<\/b><br \/>\n1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning. 3Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.<br \/>\n6There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 7He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. 8He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.<br \/>\n9The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. 10He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God\u2014 13children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband\u2019s will, but born of God.<br \/>\n14The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.<\/p>\n<p><u><b>John 3:19<\/b><\/u>(NIV)<br \/>\n19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.<\/p>\n<p><u><b>John 8:12<\/b><\/u>(NIV)<br \/>\n12When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, \u201cI am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Light Has Come 2020 Church Theme: Make Disciples, Journey Together Scripture: John 1:1-14, 3:19, 8:12 (NIV) Speaker: Mr. Alex Chan John 1:1-14(NIV) The Word Became Flesh 1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning. 3Through him all things &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20201227\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Light Has Come&#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":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-sermon","category-mr-alex-chan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","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=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}