{"id":14237,"date":"2025-09-16T10:28:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T14:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/?p=14237"},"modified":"2025-09-16T10:28:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T14:28:44","slug":"gods-unfailing-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2025\/09\/gods-unfailing-love\/","title":{"rendered":"God\u2019s Unfailing Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>2025 THEME: Burning Hearts<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Title: God\u2019s Unfailing Love<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Scripture: Hosea 1-Nahum 3<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\">I. AS A FATHER TO HIS CHILDREN (Hosea)<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">God\u2019s judgment against Israel is to (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>draw them back to Himself<\/strong><\/span>) and to show how much (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>He<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>loves<\/strong><\/span>) them.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>II. AS A PROMISE KEEPER TO HIS CHILDREN (Joel)<\/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>As a loving Father, He keeps His promise to His children about (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>restoration<\/strong><\/span>).<\/li>\n<li>As a loving Father, He makes a promise about the (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>future<\/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>III. AS THE SHEPHERD TO HIS SHEEP (Amos)<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Sin (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>breaks<\/strong><\/span>) our world; God\u2019s (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>grace<\/strong><\/span>) restores it. Sin breaks us; God\u2019s grace restores us.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">IV. AS THE ESCAPE FOR HIS CAPTIVES (Obadiah)<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Sin has held us (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>captive<\/strong><\/span>), but some day the chain and power of sin will be (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>broken<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">V. AS RESCUER FOR HIS REBELS (Jonah)<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">VI. AS THE RENEWER OF HIS WORLD (Micah)<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">The real jewel in Micah is 6:8<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">VII. AS THE BRINGER OF JUDGMENT (Nahum)<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Those who think they have won now will find out they are simply losers in the end. God will not<br \/>\n(<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>be toyed with or mocked<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>Next week: week: The End and the Beginning<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Scripture: Habakkuk 1-Matthew 4<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025 THEME: Burning Hearts Title: God\u2019s Unfailing Love Scripture: Hosea 1-Nahum 3 I. AS A FATHER TO HIS CHILDREN (Hosea) God\u2019s judgment against Israel is to (draw them back to Himself) and to show how much (He loves) them. II. AS A PROMISE KEEPER TO HIS CHILDREN (Joel) As a loving Father, He keeps His &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2025\/09\/gods-unfailing-love\/\">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-14237","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\/14237","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=14237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14238,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14237\/revisions\/14238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}