{"id":14191,"date":"2025-09-03T09:34:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T13:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/?p=14191"},"modified":"2025-09-03T09:34:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T13:34:29","slug":"a-picture-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2025\/09\/a-picture-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"A Picture of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>2025 THEME: Burning Hearts<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Title: A Picture of God<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Scripture: Ezekiel 23-42<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\">I. HE IS A GOD OF JUDGMENT<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">God\u2019s judgment is never (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>without cause<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li>His judgment is (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>certain<\/strong><\/span>).<\/li>\n<li>His judgment is (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>irrevocable<\/strong><\/span>).<\/li>\n<li>His judgment is (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>intense<\/strong><\/span>)<\/li>\n<li>His judgment is (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>deserved<\/strong><\/span>).<\/li>\n<li>His judgment can be (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>avoided<\/strong><\/span>).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>II. HE IS A SOVEREIGN GOD<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li>God has (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>no equal<\/strong><\/span>).<\/li>\n<li>God has authority over (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>everyone and everything<\/strong><\/span>).<\/li>\n<li>God\u2019s standards (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>do not change<\/strong><\/span>).<\/li>\n<li>God keeps His (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>promises<\/strong><\/span>).<\/li>\n<li>God\u2019s (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>judgment and justice<\/strong><\/span>) is the same.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>III. HE IS A SHEPHERDING GOD<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Why does God care this much? Because He (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>cares about His sheep<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">There is no greater leader for God\u2019s people than God Himself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">He is the God of (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>new life<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>Next week: week: In His Presence<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Scripture: Ezekiel 43-Hosea 7<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025 THEME: Burning Hearts Title: A Picture of God Scripture: Ezekiel 23-42 I. HE IS A GOD OF JUDGMENT God\u2019s judgment is never (without cause). His judgment is (certain). His judgment is (irrevocable). His judgment is (intense) His judgment is (deserved). His judgment can be (avoided). II. HE IS A SOVEREIGN GOD God has (no &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2025\/09\/a-picture-of-god\/\">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-14191","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\/14191","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=14191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14193,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14191\/revisions\/14193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}