{"id":7460,"date":"2019-09-30T04:19:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/welcoming-the-king-2\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:19:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:19:49","slug":"welcoming-the-king-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/welcoming-the-king-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcoming the King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Palm Sunday sermon.                                      John 12:12-19<\/p>\n<p>                              WELCOMING THE KING<br \/>\n                              ==================<\/p>\n<p>     I. Here comes the king.<\/p>\n<p>    II. Mixed motives of the crowd.<br \/>\n         A. Many were there for the thrill factor.<br \/>\n         B. Some worshipped him with innocent faith.<br \/>\n         C. A few had a deeper appreciation.<br \/>\n         D. None grasped the full meaning.<\/p>\n<p>   III. What it means to welcome Jesus as your king.<br \/>\n         A. More than hosannas.<br \/>\n         B. The Lordship of Jesus.<br \/>\n             1) Regular time with God.<br \/>\n             2) Commitment to God&#8217;s people and work.<br \/>\n             3) Self-Control in areas of weakness.<br \/>\n             4) Stand up for Jesus in the public square.<\/p>\n<p>    IV. Choosing your king.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palm Sunday sermon. John 12:12-19 WELCOMING THE KING ================== I. Here comes the king. II. Mixed motives of the crowd. A. Many were there for the thrill factor. B. Some worshipped him with innocent faith. C. A few had a deeper appreciation. D. None grasped the full meaning. III. What it means to welcome Jesus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1166,956,4912,1895],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}