{"id":9550,"date":"2021-02-21T14:15:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T19:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/?p=9550"},"modified":"2021-02-21T14:15:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T19:15:20","slug":"yourdestiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2021\/02\/yourdestiny\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Destiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>2021 THEME: Life on the Edge<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>Series: Life Matters<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>TITLE:\u00a0 Your <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Density<\/span> Destiny<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>Scripture: Eccl. 9: 1-10<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">(<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Death<\/strong><\/span>) is the great equalizer. \u201cNothing is certain in life except death and taxes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 DEATH WILL RENDER LIFE (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>MEANINGLESS<\/strong><\/span>)<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Four basic philosophies which do not work:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Materialism<\/strong><\/span>). \u201cSupply yourself!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Hedonism<\/strong><\/span>) \u201cEnjoy yourself!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Humanism<\/strong><\/span>) \u201cExalt yourself!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Fatalism<\/strong><\/span>) \u201cResign yourself!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Since godliness is not a guarantee of (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>prosperity or comfort<\/strong><\/span>), we cannot look at our circumstances to determine if (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>God is for us or against us<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>II.\u00a0\u00a0 DEATH CAN RENDER LIFE <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">(<strong>MEANINGFUL<\/strong>)<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">6 things ways we should enjoy life:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He says eat your (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>bread with pleasure<\/strong><\/span>). (v.7a)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He says drink your wine with a (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>glad heart<\/strong><\/span>). (v.7b)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He tells them to wear (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>white all the time<\/strong><\/span>).\u00a0 (v.8a)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He tells them to put (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>oil on their head<\/strong><\/span>).\u00a0 (v.8b)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">5)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He tells them to (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>enjoy life with your wife<\/strong><\/span>). (v.9)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">6)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He tells them to (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>enjoy work<\/strong><\/span>) and (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>their activities<\/strong><\/span>). (v.10)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cThe only way to get rid of death is to get rid of sin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Theme: Life on the Edge \/ Series: Life Matters<\/p>\n<p>Title: Be Sensible-Be Wise- Eccl 10<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 THEME: Life on the Edge Series: Life Matters TITLE:\u00a0 Your Density Destiny Scripture: Eccl. 9: 1-10 &nbsp; (Death) is the great equalizer. \u201cNothing is certain in life except death and taxes.\u201d &nbsp; I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 DEATH WILL RENDER LIFE (MEANINGLESS) Four basic philosophies which do not work: 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Materialism). \u201cSupply yourself!\u201d 2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Hedonism) \u201cEnjoy yourself!\u201d 3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2021\/02\/yourdestiny\/\">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-9550","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\/9550","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=9550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9551,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9550\/revisions\/9551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}