{"id":11116,"date":"2023-03-06T08:43:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T13:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/?p=11116"},"modified":"2023-03-06T08:43:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T13:43:46","slug":"thestingoffailure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2023\/03\/thestingoffailure\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sting of Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>2023 THEME: Victory!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>Series:\u00a0<\/strong>To and From the Cross<\/h1>\n<h1><strong>TITLE: The Sting of Failure<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>Scripture:\u00a0 Matthew 26:69-75<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>I. \u00a0\u00a0 FAILURE IS A FACT<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Let\u2019s talk about failure:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">1. Failure is a fact in (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>the Bible<\/strong><\/span>).<br \/>\n2. Failure is a fact of (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>experience<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<h4><strong>II. FAILURE IS FORGIVEN<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Jesus predicted both (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Judas\u2019 betrayal<\/strong><\/span>) and (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Peter\u2019s denial<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Not only is failure a (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>fact<\/strong><\/span>), not only is failure (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>foreseen<\/strong><\/span>), failure is also (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>forgiven<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">1. Jesus prayed for Peter\u2019s (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>faith<\/strong><\/span>).<br \/>\n2. Jesus probed for Peter\u2019s (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>love<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">There is a little bit of Peter (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>in all of us<\/strong><\/span>). We brim over with (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>pride<\/strong><\/span>). We think (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>we are better<\/strong><\/span>)<br \/>\nthan someone else. We tell ourselves that we haven\u2019t really (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>done anything<\/strong><\/span>) that bad.<\/p>\n<p>Next Week: Theme: Victory! Series: To and From the Cross<br \/>\nSermon Title: Insults and Paradise- Luke 23:26-43<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 THEME: Victory! Series:\u00a0To and From the Cross TITLE: The Sting of Failure Scripture:\u00a0 Matthew 26:69-75 I. \u00a0\u00a0 FAILURE IS A FACT Let\u2019s talk about failure: 1. Failure is a fact in (the Bible). 2. Failure is a fact of (experience). II. FAILURE IS FORGIVEN Jesus predicted both (Judas\u2019 betrayal) and (Peter\u2019s denial). Not only &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2023\/03\/thestingoffailure\/\">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-11116","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\/11116","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=11116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11118,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11116\/revisions\/11118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}