{"id":13862,"date":"2025-04-08T09:32:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T13:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/?p=13862"},"modified":"2025-04-08T09:32:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T13:32:22","slug":"hero-and-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2025\/04\/hero-and-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"Hero and Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>2025 THEME: Burning Hearts<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Title: Hero and Zero<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Scripture: 2 Samuel 4-I Kings 2<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">I. SEEING OURSELVES FOR WHO WE ARE (Ps.139)<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">This Psalm is filled with powerful teaching about God and His (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Omnipresence<\/strong><\/span>), that wherever<br \/>\n(<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>we go<\/strong><\/span>) God (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>is there<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Who are we? We are a (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>delicately made<\/strong><\/span>), wonderfully (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>complex<\/strong><\/span>), perfectly (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>designed<\/strong><\/span>)-warts and<br \/>\nall-creature, formed by an amazing, wonderful God who knows us from (<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">beginning to end<\/span><\/strong>).<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">II. DAVID-HERO AND ZERO<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">David- The Hero (Chapter 5)- He (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>consults<\/strong><\/span>) God before going to war<br \/>\nDavid- The Zero (Chapter 6)- He (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>gets angry<\/strong><\/span>) with God<br \/>\nDavid- The Hero (Chapter 9)- He keeps his promise to (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Jonathan<\/strong><\/span>)<br \/>\nDavid- The Zero (Chapter 11)- (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Adultery and murder<\/strong><\/span>)<br \/>\nDavid- The Hero (Chapter 12)- His (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>repentance<\/strong><\/span>). See Psalm 51<br \/>\nDavid- The Zero (Chapter 13)- His failure to defend (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Tamar\u2019s rape<\/strong><\/span>)<br \/>\nDavid- The Hero (Chapter 16)- His refusal to strike out at (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Shimei<\/strong><\/span>).<br \/>\nDavid-The Hero (Chapter 19)- His (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>mercy<\/strong><\/span>) to Shimei and (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>kindness<\/strong><\/span>) to Mephibosheth<br \/>\nDavid- The Zero to Hero (Chapter 24)- His (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>pride<\/strong><\/span>) and (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>taking responsibility<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">2025 THEME: Burning Hearts<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">Next week: This is Our God!<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">Scripture: I Kings 3-22<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025 THEME: Burning Hearts Title: Hero and Zero Scripture: 2 Samuel 4-I Kings 2 I. SEEING OURSELVES FOR WHO WE ARE (Ps.139) This Psalm is filled with powerful teaching about God and His (Omnipresence), that wherever (we go) God (is there). Who are we? We are a (delicately made), wonderfully (complex), perfectly (designed)-warts and all-creature, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2025\/04\/hero-and-zero\/\">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-13862","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\/13862","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=13862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13863,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13862\/revisions\/13863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}