{"id":953,"date":"2022-02-20T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/?p=953"},"modified":"2022-02-15T22:10:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T22:10:21","slug":"sermon20220220","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20220220\/","title":{"rendered":"The connecting idea of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span hidden=\"\">The connecting idea of God<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"sermonNotes2022\">\n<div class=\"sermonInfoTitle\">2022 Church Theme: Advancing God\u2019s Kingdom in the New Normalcy<br \/>\nScripture: John 1:1-18<br \/>\nSpeaker: Rev. Michael Lau<\/div>\n<div class=\"audio-container\"><audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/mp3\/English\/2022_0220_E.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><\/audio><\/div>\n<p><u><strong>John 1:1-18<\/strong><\/u><br \/>\n<span class=\"text 2Cor-5-16\"><sup class=\"versenum\">1<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"text John-1-1\">In the beginning was the Word,\u00a0and the Word was with God,\u00a0and the Word was God.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26047\" class=\"text John-1-2\"><sup class=\"versenum\">2\u00a0<\/sup>He was with God in the beginning.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26048\" class=\"text John-1-3\"><sup class=\"versenum\">3\u00a0<\/sup>Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26049\" class=\"text John-1-4\"><sup class=\"versenum\">4\u00a0<\/sup>In him was life,\u00a0and that life was the light\u00a0of all mankind.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26050\" class=\"text John-1-5\"><sup class=\"versenum\">5\u00a0<\/sup>The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome\u00a0it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-NIV-26051\" class=\"text John-1-6\"><sup class=\"versenum\">6\u00a0<\/sup>There was a man sent from God whose name was John.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26052\" class=\"text John-1-7\"><sup class=\"versenum\">7\u00a0<\/sup>He came as a witness to testify\u00a0concerning that light, so that through him all might believe.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26053\" class=\"text John-1-8\"><sup class=\"versenum\">8\u00a0<\/sup>He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-NIV-26054\" class=\"text John-1-9\"><sup class=\"versenum\">9\u00a0<\/sup>The true light\u00a0that gives light to everyone\u00a0was coming into the world.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26055\" class=\"text John-1-10\"><sup class=\"versenum\">10\u00a0<\/sup>He was in the world, and though the world was made through him,\u00a0the world did not recognize him.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26056\" class=\"text John-1-11\"><sup class=\"versenum\">11\u00a0<\/sup>He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26057\" class=\"text John-1-12\"><sup class=\"versenum\">12\u00a0<\/sup>Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed\u00a0in his name,\u00a0he gave the right to become children of God\u2014<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26058\" class=\"text John-1-13\"><sup class=\"versenum\">13\u00a0<\/sup>children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband\u2019s will, but born of God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-NIV-26059\" class=\"text John-1-14\"><sup class=\"versenum\">14\u00a0<\/sup>The Word became flesh\u00a0and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory,\u00a0the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace\u00a0and truth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-NIV-26060\" class=\"text John-1-15\"><sup class=\"versenum\">15\u00a0<\/sup>(John testified\u00a0concerning him. He cried out, saying, \u201cThis is the one I spoke about when I said, \u2018He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.\u2019\u201d)<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26061\" class=\"text John-1-16\"><sup class=\"versenum\">16\u00a0<\/sup>Out of his fullness\u00a0we have all received grace\u00a0in place of grace already given.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26062\" class=\"text John-1-17\"><sup class=\"versenum\">17\u00a0<\/sup>For the law was given through Moses;\u00a0grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26063\" class=\"text John-1-18\"><sup class=\"versenum\">18\u00a0<\/sup>No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and\u00a0is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The connecting idea of God 2022 Church Theme: Advancing God\u2019s Kingdom in the New Normalcy Scripture: John 1:1-18 Speaker: Rev. Michael Lau John 1:1-18 1In the beginning was the Word,\u00a0and the Word was with God,\u00a0and the Word was God.\u00a02\u00a0He was with God in the beginning.\u00a03\u00a0Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20220220\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The connecting idea of God&#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":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2022-sermon","category-rev-michael-lau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","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=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":965,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}