{"id":608,"date":"2021-04-04T09:30:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T09:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mgc.ca\/YM\/?p=608"},"modified":"2021-04-09T23:28:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T23:28:37","slug":"sermon20210404","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20210404\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus was Raised to Life for Our Justification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span hidden=\"\">Jesus was Raised to Life for Our Justification<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"sermonNotes2020\">\n<div class=\"sermonInfoTitle\">2021 Church Theme: One Heart, One Mission<br \/>\nScripture: Romans 4:13-25<br \/>\nSpeaker: Elder Alex Chan<\/div>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yk1mRbm854w\" title=\"YouTube video player\" 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\/2021_0404_E.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/div>\n<p><u><b>Romans 4:13-25<\/b><\/u> (NIV)<br \/>\n13It was not through the law that Abraham and his offspring received the promise that he would be heir of the world, but through the righteousness that comes by faith. 14For if those who depend on the law are heirs, faith means nothing and the promise is worthless, 15because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law there is no transgression.<br \/>\n16Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham\u2019s offspring\u2014not only to those who are of the law but also to those who have the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all. 17As it is written: \u201cI have made you a father of many nations.\u201d He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed\u2014the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not.<br \/>\n18Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, \u201cSo shall your offspring be.\u201d 19Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead\u2014since he was about a hundred years old\u2014and that Sarah\u2019s womb was also dead. 20Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, 21being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. 22This is why \u201cit was credited to him as righteousness.\u201d 23The words \u201cit was credited to him\u201d were written not for him alone, 24but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness\u2014for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. 25He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus was Raised to Life for Our Justification 2021 Church Theme: One Heart, One Mission Scripture: Romans 4:13-25 Speaker: Elder Alex Chan Romans 4:13-25 (NIV) 13It was not through the law that Abraham and his offspring received the promise that he would be heir of the world, but through the righteousness that comes by faith. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20210404\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jesus was Raised to Life for Our Justification&#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":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2021-sermon","category-mr-alex-chan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","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=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}