{"id":896,"date":"2024-03-17T14:31:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T14:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/?p=896"},"modified":"2024-03-17T14:31:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T14:31:24","slug":"the-hour-has-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2024\/03\/17\/the-hour-has-come\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hour Has Come"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Todays sermon was given by our priest in charge the Rev Nick Mwandia on the 5th Sunday of Lent, 17th March 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/170324\" width=\"500\" height=\"60\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Download Mp3\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/170324\/170324.mp3\">HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sermon starts at 2:22<\/p>\n\n\n\n<font color=\"red\">John 12:20-33\n<br><br>\nJesus Predicts His Death<\/font>\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>20<\/b><\/font> Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the festival. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>21<\/b><\/font> They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, with a request. \u201cSir,\u201d they said, \u201cwe would like to see Jesus.\u201d \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>22<\/b><\/font> Philip went to tell Andrew; Andrew and Philip in turn told Jesus.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>23<\/b><\/font> Jesus replied, \u201cThe hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>24<\/b><\/font> Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>25<\/b><\/font> Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>26<\/b><\/font> Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>27<\/b><\/font> \u201cNow my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? \u2018Father, save me from this hour\u2019? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>28<\/b><\/font> Father, glorify your name!\u201d\n<br><br>\nThen a voice came from heaven, \u201cI have glorified it, and will glorify it again.\u201d \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>29<\/b><\/font> The crowd that was there and heard it said it had thundered; others said an angel had spoken to him.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>30<\/b><\/font> Jesus said, \u201cThis voice was for your benefit, not mine. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>31<\/b><\/font> Now is the time for judgment on this world; now the prince of this world will be driven out. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>32<\/b><\/font> And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.\u201d \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>33<\/b><\/font> He said this to show the kind of death he was going to die.<br><br>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todays sermon was given by our priest in charge the Rev Nick Mwandia on the 5th Sunday of Lent, 17th March 2024. Download Mp3\u00a0HERE! Sermon starts at 2:22 John 12:20-33 Jesus Predicts His Death 20 Now there were some Greeks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2024\/03\/17\/the-hour-has-come\/\">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":[16,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896"}],"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=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":897,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}