{"id":5733,"date":"2016-08-16T03:47:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/falling-down-beside-us\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:47:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:33","slug":"falling-down-beside-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/falling-down-beside-us\/","title":{"rendered":"FALLING\n  DOWN BESIDE US"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Caring; Comfort; Help; Holy Spirit<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Reference:<\/b> John 14:16\u201318<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>The Karre language of equatorial Africa was difficult for the translators of the New Testament, especially when it came to the word <i>Paraclete.<\/i> How could they describe the Holy Spirit?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>One day the translators saw a group of porters going off into the bush carrying bundles on their heads. They noticed one didn\u2019t carry anything. They assumed he was the boss, who was present to make sure the others did their work. However, they discovered he was not the boss. Rather, he was present so that, should anyone fall over with exhaustion, this man would pick up the man\u2019s load and carry it for him. This porter was known in the Karre language as \u201cthe one who falls down beside us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The translators had their word for <i>Paraclete<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Ian Coffey, \u201cDeep Impact,\u201d <i>Keswick \u201999<\/i> (OM Publishing)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Caring; Comfort; Help; Holy Spirit Reference: John 14:16\u201318 The Karre language of equatorial Africa was difficult for the translators of the New Testament, especially when it came to the word Paraclete. How could they describe the Holy Spirit? One day the translators saw a group of porters going off into the bush carrying bundles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/falling-down-beside-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FALLING<br \/>\n  DOWN BESIDE US&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}