{"id":10707,"date":"2022-09-04T15:42:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T19:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/?p=10707"},"modified":"2022-09-04T15:42:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T19:42:42","slug":"stickingyourneckout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2022\/09\/stickingyourneckout\/","title":{"rendered":"Sticking Your Neck Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>2022 THEME: For Such a Time. . .<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>Series: 8 Cures<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>TITLE: Sticking Your Neck Out<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>Scripture:\u00a0 Matthew 5: 7<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LET\u2019S DEFINE OUR TERMS\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The Romans admired justice, courage, self-control, and wisdom, but not (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>mercy<\/strong><\/span>). The philosophers called mercy (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>a disease of the soul<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Righteousness on the inside will produce the (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>fruit of right action<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<h4><strong>II.\u00a0\u00a0 LET\u2019S DEFINE OUR ACTIONS\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Grace is shown to the (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>undeserving<\/strong><\/span>); mercy is (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>compassion<\/strong><\/span>) to the (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>miserable<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">James 2:13 \u201cThere will be no mercy for those who have not shown mercy to others. But if you have been merciful, God will be merciful when he judges you.\u201d (NLT)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This Beatitude is not showing we can merit God\u2019s mercy BUT those who are God\u2019s children will themselves be merciful and will receive mercy in the end.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">One final Scripture: I John 3:17<\/p>\n<p>Next Week: \u201cEight Cures\u201d Title: 20\/20 Vision- Mt.5: 8<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 THEME: For Such a Time. . . Series: 8 Cures TITLE: Sticking Your Neck Out Scripture:\u00a0 Matthew 5: 7 &nbsp; I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LET\u2019S DEFINE OUR TERMS\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Romans admired justice, courage, self-control, and wisdom, but not (mercy). The philosophers called mercy (a disease of the soul). Righteousness on the inside will produce the (fruit of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2022\/09\/stickingyourneckout\/\">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-10707","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\/10707","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=10707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10709,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10707\/revisions\/10709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}