{"id":5145,"date":"2019-12-17T14:51:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T14:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=5145"},"modified":"2019-12-17T14:51:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T14:51:38","slug":"sermon-synopsis-for-sunday-december-22nd-jesus-came-to-sacrifice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=5145","title":{"rendered":"Sermon Synopsis for Sunday, December 22nd: &#8220;Jesus Came to Sacrifice&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching a television interview recently where the host asked his guest this question: \u201cHow do you wish to be remembered?\u201d Though the question seemed a tad premature as this person had just turned 50 and was in excellent health, it nonetheless prodded me to give this same line of reasoning some sober reflection. So I asked myself, \u201cHow do I wish to be remembered?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?attachment_id=5147\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5147\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5147\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ancient-2208_1280-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ancient-2208_1280-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ancient-2208_1280-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ancient-2208_1280-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ancient-2208_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As I mulled over this contemplation, I began to posit some possible epitaphs to have etched onto my gravestone one day. It may read, but not likely: \u201cThis is no joke.\u201d More probably it will read, \u201cDon\u2019t be fooled by the appearance of death \u2013 I\u2019ve never been more alive!\u201d or, \u201cI\u2019ve lived my entire life for this!\u201d or, \u201cJesus retrieved what belonged to Him.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?attachment_id=5146\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5146\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5146\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ascension-1568162_1280-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ascension-1568162_1280-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ascension-1568162_1280-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ascension-1568162_1280-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ascension-1568162_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nDid you know that Jesus had chiseled His own epitaph during the eternity that preceded His Creation of the heavens and the earth? Before He was even \u201cborn,\u201d He carved out how He wished to be remembered when He \u201cdied.\u201d Your interest piqued? Why not attend this Sunday to hear just what He had etched eons ago?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching a television interview recently where the host asked his guest this question: \u201cHow do you wish to be remembered?\u201d Though the question seemed a tad premature as this person had just turned 50 and was in excellent health, it nonetheless prodded me to give this same line of reasoning some sober reflection. &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=5145\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-christy_alohayahoo-com","4":"post-5145","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-sermon-preview"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/christmas-1812692_1280.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5149,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145\/revisions\/5149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}