{"id":10313,"date":"2022-02-13T15:30:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T20:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/?p=10313"},"modified":"2022-02-14T09:40:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T14:40:37","slug":"hintwewin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2022\/02\/hintwewin\/","title":{"rendered":"Hint: We Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>2022 THEME: For Such a Time. . .<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>Series: Against the Grain<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>TITLE: Hint: We Win<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>Scripture: Daniel 7<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>I.\u00a0 WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Daniel 7 moors us spiritually, and emotionally, in something beyond our optimism or our pessimism. It tells us that things (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>are far worse that we thought<\/strong><\/span>), but far better (<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">than we\u2019ve ever hoped<\/span><\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cApocalyptic\u201d writing is used when normal words fail. This is especially true of Daniel and Revelation. What it says? It may not look like it but (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>God is on the throne<\/strong><\/span>) and the future is (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>securely in His hands<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">It is not possible to understand Daniel 7 without recognizing there is a (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>devil<\/strong><\/span>), that he is (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>active and hostile<\/strong><\/span>), and there is a great spiritual battle going on between the (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>forces of evil<\/strong><\/span>) and the (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>forces of God<\/strong><\/span>). Check out Eph.6:12<\/p>\n<h4><strong>II. THE KING OF THE JUNGLE<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cAncient of Days\u201d is a description of God. \u201cIt is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God.\u201d (Heb. 10:31) \u201cOur God is a consuming fire.\u201d (Heb.12:29)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">What is Daniel being shown?<br \/>\n1. He is (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>not alone<\/strong><\/span>).<br \/>\n2. The kingdom of man (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>starts to crumble<\/strong><\/span>) as the court sits in judgment..<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Summary of vision: God (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>has won<\/strong><\/span>), and God (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>will win<\/strong><\/span>) and His people (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>will reign<\/strong><\/span>)-but the war is not over yet<\/p>\n<p>Next Week: Series: \u201cAgainst the Grain\u201d<br \/>\nTitle: \u00a0Adding the Exclamation Point\u00a0&#8211; Daniel 9<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 THEME: For Such a Time. . . Series: Against the Grain TITLE: Hint: We Win Scripture: Daniel 7 &nbsp; I.\u00a0 WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE Daniel 7 moors us spiritually, and emotionally, in something beyond our optimism or our pessimism. It tells us that things (are far worse that we thought), but far better (than &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2022\/02\/hintwewin\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon-notes","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10313"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10319,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10313\/revisions\/10319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}