{"id":11697,"date":"2023-12-27T10:22:57","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T15:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/?p=11697"},"modified":"2023-12-27T10:22:57","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T15:22:57","slug":"whatdoesitallmean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2023\/12\/whatdoesitallmean\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does it all Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>2023 THEME: Victory!<\/h1>\n<h1>Series: More Than a Holiday<\/h1>\n<h1>TITLE: What Does it all Mean?<\/h1>\n<h1>Scripture: Matt.1:23; Phil. 2:5-8; I Thess. 4:16<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>\u00a0 I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 HE IS WITH US \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">No matter what you receive, no matter how high the price tag, no matter how elaborate the technology, (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>things will disappoint us<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Mary and Joseph knew what Immanuel meant but (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>not the implications<\/strong><\/span>). All other religions lay out what you must (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>do<\/strong><\/span>) to somehow reach God. But Christianity is not (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>do<\/strong><\/span>), but (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>done<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 II.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 HE IS COMING AGAIN \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Here is what we need to know and remember: Jesus Himself (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>did not know<\/strong><\/span>) when He would return.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Jesus was born in Bethlehem when (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>the time was just right<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n<p>NEXT WEEK: THEME: Run with the Horses<\/p>\n<p>Title: Dark Horse- Jer.12:5; I Cor. 9:24-27; Heb. 12:1-2<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 THEME: Victory! Series: More Than a Holiday TITLE: What Does it all Mean? Scripture: Matt.1:23; Phil. 2:5-8; I Thess. 4:16 &nbsp; \u00a0 I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 HE IS WITH US \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No matter what you receive, no matter how high the price tag, no matter how elaborate the technology, (things will disappoint us). Mary and Joseph knew &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2023\/12\/whatdoesitallmean\/\">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-11697","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\/11697","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=11697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11698,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11697\/revisions\/11698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}