{"id":706,"date":"2022-12-20T09:42:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T09:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/46.32.240.45\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/?p=706"},"modified":"2022-12-20T09:44:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T09:44:04","slug":"joseph-and-the-angel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2022\/12\/20\/joseph-and-the-angel\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph and the Angel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sermon from our joint service at St Paul&#8217;s Church, Luton, UK. Given by our priest in charge Nick Mwandia on the 18\/12\/22 entitled &#8220;Joseph and the Angel&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/181222\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"30\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Download Mp3&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/181222\/181222.mp3\">HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Running time 41 minutes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<font color=\"red\">Matthew 1 v 18-25\n<br><br>\nJoseph Accepts Jesus as His Son<\/font>\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>18<\/b><\/font>&nbsp;This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>19<\/b><\/font>&nbsp;Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law, and yet did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>20<\/b><\/font>&nbsp;But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, \u201cJoseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>21<\/b><\/font>&nbsp;She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.\u201d\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>22<\/b><\/font>&nbsp;All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>23<\/b><\/font>&nbsp;\u201cThe virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel\u201d (which means \u201cGod with us\u201d).\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>24<\/b><\/font>&nbsp;When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>25<\/b><\/font>&nbsp;But he did not consummate their marriage until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon from our joint service at St Paul&#8217;s Church, Luton, UK. Given by our priest in charge Nick Mwandia on the 18\/12\/22 entitled &#8220;Joseph and the Angel&#8221; Download Mp3&nbsp;HERE! Running time 41 minutes Matthew 1 v 18-25 Joseph Accepts Jesus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2022\/12\/20\/joseph-and-the-angel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,20,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}