{"id":1696,"date":"2017-05-07T18:46:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T08:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stgeorgeseastivanhoe.org\/wordpress\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2017-05-07T18:47:53","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T08:47:53","slug":"the-revd-gail-bryce-sermon-for-the-feast-of-st-philip-and-st-james-apostles-10-am-wednesday-3rd-may-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stgeorgeseastivanhoe.org\/wordpress\/the-revd-gail-bryce-sermon-for-the-feast-of-st-philip-and-st-james-apostles-10-am-wednesday-3rd-may-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rev\u2019d Gail Bryce \u2013 sermon for the Feast of St. Philip and St. James \u2013 Apostles 10 am Wednesday, 3rd May, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">FEAST OF ST. PHILIP AND ST JAMES &#8211; APOSTLES<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\">St. George\u2019s Anglican Church, Ivanhoe East<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\">10 am Wednesday, 3<\/span><sup><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\">rd<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\"> May, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\">Isaiah 30:18-21\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\">Psalm 19:1-6\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\">1 Corinthians 15:1-8\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\">John 14:6-14<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\">In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\"><u>INTRODUCTION<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\"> Today we celebrate and give thanks to God for the lives of St. Philip and St. James, both apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ and martyrs for their faith in Him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\"> When I reflect on the deaths of these two apostles, I am shocked and, at the same time, so in awe of Philip and James and the other apostles who died for their faith in our Lord. I have questioned myself as to whether I would stand the test of being faithful to our Lord even in the face of persecution and the threat death. Have you ever asked yourself this question?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\"><u>ST. PHILIP AND ST. JAMES<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\"> Philip was an apostle of Jesus. After he responded to Jesus call to follow Him, he went and invited Nathaniel to join the band of disciples. So he was an evangelist from his beginnings. In the Gospel passage today, Philip asks Jesus to: \u201cShow us the Father and we well be satisfied.\u201d Jesus says plainly: \u201cHe that has seen me has seen the Father. I and the Father are one.\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(John 14)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\"> It is said \u201cFoxes Book of Martyrs\u201d, p.9.)<\/span> <span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\">that Philip labored to spread the Gospel amongst barbarous people and suffered in Hierapolis, a city of Phyrgia. He was crucified and stoned to death and buried there with his daughters.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\"><u>St. James<\/u><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\"> was a disciple of Jesus and one of three disciples in Jesus\u2019 inner circle, the others being Peter and John. James was present on the Mount of transfiguration when Jesus was transfigured and revealed His glory. Herod Agrippa ordered James\u2019 death by a sword.<\/span> <span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(Acts 12:2)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\"><u>PERSECUTION<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\"> I have the opinion that Christians are not popular in our society today. The church has much to apologize for from past events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\"> Jesus said to: \u201cCount it all joy when we are persecuted and reviled and hated\u201d and dealt with maliciously on account of Him, because this is what was done to the prophets in the Old Testament.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\"> In our humanity, being the recipient of this kind of persecution, it is not easy to call this \u201cjoy\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\">I\u2019ve recently read some novels which related how people were persecuted, burnt at the stake, hung drawn and quartered for their Christian beliefs in England in the 1500\u2019s and beyond. It is shocking what some people had to endure for what they believed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\"><u>TODAY<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\"> We sometimes think that persecution of Christians doesn\u2019t happen now to a great a number of people as it did back in the early days of Christianity or in the Middle Ages. I imagine we can all recall that our Television news has, at least over the last 12 months, given news of a number of incidents where Christians died for their faith in our Lord. I think of those Coptic Christians killed in Cairo on Palm Sunday and the Christians who were beheaded in Mosel and other places in Iraq. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\">An international Christian organization, \u201cOpen Doors\u201d, has an article on the Internet, which says:<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"western\" lang=\"en-AU\">\u201c<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #111111;\">A new report by a leading watchdog group has identified 2016 as the \u201cworst year yet\u201d for Christian persecution, ever since the organization began monitoring persecution 25 years ago.<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #111111;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-AU\">(The\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #0088bb;\"><span lang=\"en-AU\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendoorsusa.org\/christian-persecution\/world-watch-list\/?gclid=CKGI4brivdECFUWVfgodLzQMAA#download?keyword=world%20watch%20list&amp;p&amp;g&amp;171589115954&amp;1t1&amp;c&amp;174104275&amp;34353543033\">report<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #111111;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-AU\">, which is produced annually by Open Doors USA, found that persecution of Christians rose globally for the third year in a row, reaching \u201cunprecedented levels\u201d in countries located in South and Southeast Asia, among other locations.)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #111111;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-AU\">Christians throughout the world continue to risk imprisonment, loss of home and assets, torture, beheadings, rape and even death as a result of their faith,\u201d the report stated. The World Watch List (WWL) ranks the 50 countries across the globe where persecution of Christians is most severe.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #111111;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-AU\">Islamic extremism remains the dominant\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #0088bb;\"><span lang=\"en-AU\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/gleanings\/2017\/january\/top-50-countries-christian-persecution-world-watch-list.html\">driver<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #111111;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-AU\">\u00a0of Christian persecution in the world, responsible for initiating oppression and conflict in 35 out of the 50 countries on the 2017 list. Moreover, nine out of the top ten countries where Christians suffer \u201cextreme persecution\u201d have populations that are at least 50% Muslim.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #111111;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-AU\">For the 14th straight year, North Korea tops the list as the most dangerous place to be a Christian, followed by Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Eritrea and Yemen.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #111111;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-AU\">While killings of Christians in Nigeria saw a dramatic increase of more than 62 percent in 2016, the most violent nation is now Pakistan, which climbed\u00a0to No. 4 on the list for a level of anti-Christian violence \u201cexceeding even northern Nigeria.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\"><u>CONCLUSION<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\">Many years ago, as I thought about my faith in our Lord and then compared myself with the \u201cgreats of the Christian faith, people like Philip and James, Paul, Mother Teresa, and so many other \u201cgreats\u201d, I knew that the depth of my faith was \u201cshallow\u201d in comparison. This was one of the reasons which led me on a long search to find God and to know that He is real. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\">You\u2019ve probably heard the story that if you were held hostage at gun point somewhere, and were given the option of denying our Lord and being set free or confessing Him as Lord and Saviour and being killed, what would you do? This is a challenge to each of us. Our brother and sister Christians in 50 other countries in the world face worse persecution than any of us will ever know personally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\">Today, we honour saints Philip and James, giving thanks to God for their lives of faithfulness and witness which cost them their lives. We thank God for the inspiration they have been to countless Christians down through the ages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\"> As we contemplate the lives of St. Philip and St. James, may we be strengthened and emboldened to live our lives in faithfulness to our Lord. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', serif;\">The Lord be with you!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FEAST OF ST. PHILIP AND ST JAMES &#8211; APOSTLES St. George\u2019s Anglican Church, Ivanhoe East 10 am Wednesday, 3rd May, 2017 Isaiah 30:18-21\u00a0Psalm 19:1-6\u00a01 Corinthians 15:1-8\u00a0John 14:6-14 In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. 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