{"id":2566,"date":"2022-08-08T18:55:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T18:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/?page_id=2566"},"modified":"2022-08-22T18:51:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T18:51:18","slug":"14-august-2022-for-god-so-loved-the-world-how-do-you-feel-about-it","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/?page_id=2566","title":{"rendered":"14 August 2022: &#8220;For God so loved the world&#8221; &#8230; how do you feel about it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:21% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"332\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220814.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2567 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220814.jpg 332w, https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220814-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220814-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220814-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220814-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-090a7876-6b6f-475f-bd24-2fdf9d5343ad\"><strong>Bethel Baptist Church<br>Worship Service @ Home<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-090a7876-6b6f-475f-bd24-2fdf9d5343ad\"><strong>14 August 2022<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-black-color has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/?page_id=2559\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"15\" height=\"10\" class=\"wp-image-1006\" style=\"width: 15px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/leftarrow.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/leftarrow.png 120w, https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/leftarrow-24x16.png 24w, https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/leftarrow-36x24.png 36w, https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/leftarrow-48x32.png 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 15px) 100vw, 15px\" \/> <strong>Previous Service<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-black-color has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/?page_id=2580\"><strong>Next Service<\/strong> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"15\" height=\"10\" class=\"wp-image-1007\" style=\"width: 15px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/rightarrow.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/rightarrow.png 120w, https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/rightarrow-24x16.png 24w, https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/rightarrow-36x24.png 36w, https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/rightarrow-48x32.png 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 15px) 100vw, 15px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This service is only available in text format.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Welcome<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Worship<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Goodness Of God (Lyrics) ~ Bethel Music\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-f4MUUMWMV4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption><sup>Bethel Music<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Please <\/strong><strong>read<\/strong>: John 3:1-21<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>For God so loved&nbsp;the world that he gave&nbsp;His one and only Son,&nbsp;that whoever believes&nbsp;in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. <\/p><cite>John 3:16<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The greatest help ever, to our mental well-being, is to know, to realise, to experience that God loves us, even that God so-o-o-o loves us. If we could start each day with this deeply imprinted on our hearts how different life would be for so many of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paul emphasises in Romans that God loved us while we were still sinners, even His enemies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>But God demonstrates His own love for us<\/strong> in this: <strong>While we were still sinners<\/strong>, Christ died for us \u2026 <strong>For if, while we were God\u2019s enemies<\/strong>,&nbsp;we were reconciled&nbsp;to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life. <\/p><cite>Romans 5:8, 10<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is repeatedly confirmed in Scriptures e.g.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live&nbsp;when you followed the ways of this world&nbsp;and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time,&nbsp;gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. <strong>But because of His great love for us<\/strong>,&nbsp;God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions\u2014it is by grace you have been saved. <\/p><cite>Ephesians 2:1-5<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And this love is not just before we were saved (past), or even while we are being saved (present),<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>God\u2019s love has been poured out into our hearts<\/strong> through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. <\/p><cite>Romans 5:5<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it is an eternal love, a love that is for ever, and ever, e.g.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Who shall separate us from <strong>the love of Christ<\/strong>?&nbsp;Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?\u2026 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors&nbsp;<strong>through Him who loved us<\/strong>. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present <strong>nor the future<\/strong>,&nbsp;nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, <strong>will be able to separate us from the love of God&nbsp;that is in Christ Jesus our Lord<\/strong>.<\/p><cite>Romans 8:35-39<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the Lord has not finished with Israel yet!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;appeared to us in the past, saying: <em>\u201c<strong>I have loved&nbsp;you with an everlasting love<\/strong>; I have drawn&nbsp;you with unfailing kindness. I will build you up again, and you, O Virgin&nbsp;Israel, will be rebuilt. Again you will take up your tambourines and go out to dance&nbsp;with the joyful. Again you will plant&nbsp;vineyards on the hills of Samaria; the farmers will plant them and enjoy their fruit.\u201d<\/em><\/p><cite>Jeremiah 31:3-5<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Quote of the week<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#f8e9c8\"><em>\u201cGod\u2019s love supply is never empty\u201d<\/em><br><br>Max Lucado<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Verse of the week<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Give thanks&nbsp;to the&nbsp;Lord, for He is good. <strong>His love endures forever<\/strong>.<\/p><cite>Psalm 136:1 &#8211; and read the whole Psalm \u2013 \u201cHis love endures forever!\u201d<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Let\u2019s Pray<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Heavenly Father, we thank You for Your everlasting love demonstrated in giving Your own Son to die in our place and that we experience through the Holy Spirit You have given to us. Help us to love others as You love us in our Lord, Saviour and Friend, Jesus Christ, Amen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This service is only available in text format. Welcome Worship Word Please read: John 3:1-21 For God so loved&nbsp;the world that he gave&nbsp;His one and only Son,&nbsp;that whoever believes&nbsp;in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. 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