{"id":1172,"date":"2023-12-21T22:38:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T22:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deadmannotwalking.org\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2023-12-23T12:28:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T12:28:20","slug":"advent-vii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deadmannotwalking.org\/?p=1172","title":{"rendered":"Advent VII"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">\u201cFor God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.&#8221;<\/mark>\u00a0\u00a0(John 3:16, NASB)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Nicodemus, a Pharisee, has come to Jesus stealthily by night.&nbsp; He doesn&#8217;t want others to know that he is coming to Him.&nbsp; They&#8217;re talking about eternal life, how we must be born again.&nbsp; Nicodemus, rightfully, doesn&#8217;t understand.&nbsp; What follows is the most famous verse in our Christian Bible.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This is about God&#8217;s Gift to us on that first Christmas.&nbsp; God loves us SO MUCH that He gave us Jesus, Who wiped away all of our sins.&nbsp; Jesus loves us SO MUCH that He &#8220;gave Himself up for us.&#8221;&nbsp; (Galatians 2:20)&nbsp; God saved us, not because of who we are, and not because of what we&#8217;ve done, but rather because of Who He is, and because of what He&#8217;s done!&nbsp; Now THIS IS LOVE!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Love is also knowing that God WILL SEND JESUS AGAIN!&nbsp; We must prepare our hearts for the Second Advent!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">SHA&#8217;ALU SHALOM YERUSHLAYIM!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Amy Grant - Love Has Come (Visualizer)\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9PtVfvlDvAE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><br>Worship:\u00a0 &#8220;Love Has Come,&#8221; by Amy Grant\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Casting Crowns - Make Room (Official Music Video) ft. Matt Maher\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uYHpJnfy2lQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Worship:&nbsp; &#8220;Make Room,,&#8221; by Casting Crowns&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chris Tomlin - Noel (Live) ft. Lauren Daigle\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Vwu-t7QRaE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Worship:&nbsp; &#8220;Noel,&#8221; by Chris Tomlin, ft. Lauren Daigle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0(John 3:16, NASB) Nicodemus, a Pharisee, has come to Jesus stealthily by night.&nbsp; He doesn&#8217;t want others to know that he is coming to Him.&nbsp; They&#8217;re talking about eternal life, how &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/deadmannotwalking.org\/?p=1172\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Advent VII&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46,3,48,27,5,57,73,36,10],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advent","tag-als","tag-christmas","tag-faith","tag-hope","tag-jesus","tag-love","tag-salvation","tag-terminal-illness"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadmannotwalking.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadmannotwalking.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadmannotwalking.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadmannotwalking.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadmannotwalking.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deadmannotwalking.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1175,"href":"https:\/\/deadmannotwalking.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions\/1175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadmannotwalking.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadmannotwalking.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadmannotwalking.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}