{"id":5741,"date":"2016-08-16T03:47:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/syncing-the-father\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:47:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:35","slug":"syncing-the-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/syncing-the-father\/","title":{"rendered":"SYNCING\n  THE FATHER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Incarnation; Jesus, One with the Father<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Reference:<\/b> John 14:7\u201311<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>There were a few occasions in Brazil when I served as a translator for an English speaker. He stood before the audience, complete with the message; I stood at his side, equipped with the language. My job was to convey his story to the listeners.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>I did my best to allow his words to come through me. I was not at liberty to embellish or subtract. When the speaker gestured, I gestured. As his volume increased, so did mine. When he got quiet, I did too.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>When he walked this earth, Jesus was \u201ctranslating\u201d God all the time. When God got louder, Jesus got louder. When God gestured, Jesus gestured. He was so in sync with the Father that he could declare, \u201cI am in the Father and the Father is in me\u201d (John 14:11 NRSV).<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Max Lucado, <i>Just Like Jesus<\/i> (Nelson, 2003)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Incarnation; Jesus, One with the Father Reference: John 14:7\u201311 There were a few occasions in Brazil when I served as a translator for an English speaker. He stood before the audience, complete with the message; I stood at his side, equipped with the language. My job was to convey his story to the listeners. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/syncing-the-father\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SYNCING<br \/>\n  THE FATHER&#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-5741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741","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=5741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}