{"id":990,"date":"2022-03-27T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/?p=990"},"modified":"2022-03-28T14:53:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T14:53:31","slug":"sermon20220327","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20220327\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mark of Discipleship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span hidden=\"\">The Mark of Discipleship<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"sermonNotes2022\">\n<p>2022 Church Theme: Advancing God\u2019s Kingdom in the New Normalcy<br \/>\nScripture: John 13:30-38<br \/>\nSpeaker: Rev. Michael Lau<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>John 13:30-38 (NIV)<\/strong><\/u><br \/>\n<span id=\"en-NIV-26661\" class=\"text John-13-30\"><sup class=\"versenum\">30\u00a0<\/sup>As soon as Judas had taken the bread, he went out. And it was night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text John-13-31\"><sup class=\"versenum\">31\u00a0<\/sup>When he was gone, Jesus said,\u00a0<span class=\"woj\">\u201cNow the Son of Man\u00a0is glorified\u00a0and God is glorified in him.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26663\" class=\"text John-13-32\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">32\u00a0<\/sup>If God is glorified in him,\u00a0God will glorify the Son in himself,\u00a0and will glorify him at once.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-NIV-26664\" class=\"text John-13-33\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">33\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cMy children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: Where I am going, you cannot come.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-NIV-26665\" class=\"text John-13-34\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">34\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cA new command\u00a0I give you: Love one another.\u00a0As I have loved you, so you must love one another.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-26666\" class=\"text John-13-35\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">35\u00a0<\/sup>By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-NIV-26667\" class=\"text John-13-36\"><sup class=\"versenum\">36\u00a0<\/sup>Simon Peter asked him, \u201cLord, where are you going?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text John-13-36\">Jesus replied,\u00a0<span class=\"woj\">\u201cWhere I am going, you cannot follow now,\u00a0but you will follow later.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-NIV-26668\" class=\"text John-13-37\"><sup class=\"versenum\">37\u00a0<\/sup>Peter asked, \u201cLord, why can\u2019t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-NIV-26669\" class=\"text John-13-38\"><sup class=\"versenum\">38\u00a0<\/sup>Then Jesus answered,\u00a0<span class=\"woj\">\u201cWill you really lay down your life for me? Very truly I tell you, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mark of Discipleship 2022 Church Theme: Advancing God\u2019s Kingdom in the New Normalcy Scripture: John 13:30-38 Speaker: Rev. Michael Lau John 13:30-38 (NIV) 30\u00a0As soon as Judas had taken the bread, he went out. And it was night. 31\u00a0When he was gone, Jesus said,\u00a0\u201cNow the Son of Man\u00a0is glorified\u00a0and God is glorified in him.\u00a032\u00a0If &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20220327\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Mark of Discipleship&#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-990","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\/990","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=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}