{"id":1984,"date":"2021-11-28T11:01:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T17:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=1984"},"modified":"2021-11-29T14:32:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T20:32:51","slug":"the-need-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=1984","title":{"rendered":"The Coming of Christmas: The NEED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/11-28-21.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Main Text: Romans 5:12-14 and Romans 5:19-21<br><br>Romans 5:14<br>Romans 5:20<br>Isaiah 53:6 <br>Romans 3:9-12 <br>James 2:10-11  <br>Romans 3:20 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> &#8220;Just as looking into a mirror enables you to see dirt on your face, so God\u2019s law enables us to see our sin.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We needed a Savior.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We needed the Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Key Idea:   We have a need for Christmas because we have a need for Christ, the Savior<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/11-28-21.mp3\">The Coming of Christmas: The NEED<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/11-28-21.mp3\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Main Text: Romans 5:12-14 and Romans 5:19-21 Romans 5:14Romans 5:20Isaiah 53:6 Romans 3:9-12 James 2:10-11 Romans 3:20 &#8220;Just as looking into a mirror enables you to see dirt on your face, so God\u2019s law enables us to see our sin.&#8221; We needed a Savior. We needed the Christ. Key Idea: We have a need for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=1984\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Coming of Christmas: The NEED<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-coming-of-christmas","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1986,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions\/1986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}