{"id":660,"date":"2021-05-23T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/?p=660"},"modified":"2021-05-28T23:44:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T23:44:53","slug":"sermon20210523","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20210523\/","title":{"rendered":"ACTion 2021 \u2013 The Jailer and his Household"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span hidden=\"\">ACTion 2021 \u2013 The Jailer and his Household<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"sermonNotes2020\">\n<div class=\"sermonInfoTitle\">2021 Church Theme: One Heart, One Mission<br \/>\nScripture: Acts 16:16-34 (NIV)<br \/>\nSpeaker: Aaron Garcia<\/div>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3WFr1W4n_OY\" 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=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/mp3\/English\/2021_0523_E.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/div>\n<p><u><strong>Acts 16:16-34<\/strong><\/u> (NIV)<br \/>\n<strong>Paul and Silas in Prison<\/strong><br \/>\n16Once when we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a female slave who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She earned a great deal of money for her owners by fortune-telling. 17She followed Paul and the rest of us, shouting, \u201cThese men are servants of the Most High God, who are telling you the way to be saved.\u201d 18She kept this up for many days. Finally Paul became so annoyed that he turned around and said to the spirit, \u201cIn the name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her!\u201d At that moment the spirit left her.<br \/>\n19When her owners realized that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to face the authorities. 20They brought them before the magistrates and said, \u201cThese men are Jews, and are throwing our city into an uproar 21by advocating customs unlawful for us Romans to accept or practice.\u201d<br \/>\n22The crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas, and the magistrates ordered them to be stripped and beaten with rods. 23After they had been severely flogged, they were thrown into prison, and the jailer was commanded to guard them carefully. 24When he received these orders, he put them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.<br \/>\n25About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. 26Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everyone\u2019s chains came loose. 27The jailer woke up, and when he saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself because he thought the prisoners had escaped. 28But Paul shouted, \u201cDon\u2019t harm yourself! We are all here!\u201d<br \/>\n29The jailer called for lights, rushed in and fell trembling before Paul and Silas. 30He then brought them out and asked, \u201cSirs, what must I do to be saved?\u201d<br \/>\n31They replied, \u201cBelieve in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved\u2014you and your household.\u201d 32Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all the others in his house. 33At that hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds; then immediately he and all his household were baptized. 34The jailer brought them into his house and set a meal before them; he was filled with joy because he had come to believe in God\u2014he and his whole household.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACTion 2021 \u2013 The Jailer and his Household 2021 Church Theme: One Heart, One Mission Scripture: Acts 16:16-34 (NIV) Speaker: Aaron Garcia Acts 16:16-34 (NIV) Paul and Silas in Prison 16Once when we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a female slave who had a spirit by which she predicted &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20210523\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ACTion 2021 \u2013 The Jailer and his Household&#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":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2021-sermon","category-mr-aaron-garcia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","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=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}